For city agencies interested in operating online dashboards to monitor mobility through vehicular GPS data, one obstacle is having computationally efficient GIS tools that relate changes in travel patterns to specific points of interest (e.g. querying adverse weather impact on traffic at the airport, or at a downtown area) in real time. We demonstrate a new technological solution using taxi GPS data from Beijing. The tool is available on Xintao Liu‘s GitHub account (https://lnkd.in/dkHpeKa).

The paper is available here.  DATATANG provided the real-time GPS data used in this study. Prof. Chow was partially supported by the C2SMART University Transportation Center.