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Mobile Reports: Submit Ted By-Abhishek, Kratika, Suruchi
Mobile Reports: Submit Ted By-Abhishek, Kratika, Suruchi
Mobile Reports: Submit Ted By-Abhishek, Kratika, Suruchi
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How Mobile Reports Helps in Transport Planning
Technological and social forces have pushed smartphone applications (apps) from the fringe to the mainstream. Mobility
information extracted from mobile phone data (mpd) has shown substantial progress the last years. Smartphone applications
and multimodal aggregators, offer the potential for transportation planners and policymakers.
Helps in origin-destination (od) survey, with the help of call data records (cdr)
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Smart Phone App/ Mobility App
Apps are computer programs designed to operate on an array of
portable devices. mobility apps assist users in planning, Mobility
understanding, and enhancing a user’s transportation choices and App
modal selection. how users interact with apps include:
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Usage of Mobile Phone Data
several usages of OD-information obtained from mobile phone data are;-
Out-of-Home advertising
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Worldwide Example of use of Mobile reports
Road traffic information supplied by mobile technology:
The Singapore Land Transport Authority use drivers’ smart-phones as traffic sensors and to deliver personalised real-time
traffic information.
The Waze (Google) app generates traffic, mapping and other road data in back-ground mode, and reports on traffic
disruptions or fuel prices.
Social media, especially Twitter and crowd-sourcing, are important sources of transport information and control.
90% of US States use Twitter and Facebook to publicise traffic incidents, construction projects and safety initiatives; 50%
offer mobile apps and 73% have mobile-friendly web sites.
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