Potential and limitations of mobile phone passive data to build origin-destination matrices

Apports et limites des données passives de la téléphonie mobile pour la construction de matrices origine-destination

Patrick Bonnel, Etienne Hombourger, Ana-Maria Olteanu-Raimond () and Zbigniew Smoreda
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Etienne Hombourger: Cerema Direction Est - Centre d'Etudes et d'Expertise sur les Risques, l'Environnement, la Mobilité et l'Aménagement - Direction Est - Cerema - Centre d'Etudes et d'Expertise sur les Risques, l'Environnement, la Mobilité et l'Aménagement
Ana-Maria Olteanu-Raimond: COGIT - Cartographie et Géomatique - LaSTIG - Laboratoire des Sciences et Technologies de l'Information Géographique - ENSG - École nationale des sciences géographiques - IGN - Institut National de l'Information Géographique et Forestière [IGN]
Zbigniew Smoreda: Orange Labs [Issy les Moulineaux] - France Télécom

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Abstract: The aim of the paper is to test the potential of passive mobile phone data to produce accurate origin-destination matrices. In this paper, we present applications performed on a dataset (communication events + handovers and location automatic updates) collected by Orange operator from March 31 to April 11, 2009 for the whole Paris Region. Data allow producing pseudo real-time spatiotemporal trajectory of devices. But the trajectory is not sufficient to determine trips. We need to introduce assumptions to generate origin and destination. In order to test the accuracy of mobile phone trip matrix, we confront it with the matrix built from household travel survey data at conurbation level in Paris Region (Enquête Globale Transport). Results appear promising for the comparison with household travel survey data for which we obtain rather good matching for each cell of origin-destination matrix. The paper also presents data limits and perspectives to improve matrix construction and comparison methodology.

Keywords: origin-destination matrix; passive data; travel survey; big data; mobile phone; données passives; enquête déplacements; matrice origine-destination; téléphone mobile (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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Published in Revue d'économie régionale et urbaine, 2017, Octobre (4), pp.647-672. ⟨10.3917/reru.174.0647⟩

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DOI: 10.3917/reru.174.0647

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