Visual analytics of urban transportation from a bike-sharing and taxi perspective
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R E G UL A R P A P E R
Haoran Dai
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Yubo Tao • Hai Lin
Visual analytics of urban transportation from a bike-sharing and taxi perspective
Received: 15 February 2020 / Revised: 15 April 2020 / Accepted: 13 June 2020 The Visualization Society of Japan 2020
Abstract The urban transportation system is the footstone of a city’s infrastructure, and the booming bikesharing system has become a vital part of urban transportation. Understanding the bike-sharing system and traditional taxi system as well as their similarities and differences are essential for bike-sharing rebalancing, taxi dispatching, and urban planning. However, due to the sparseness of record data and the difference in service regions, the relationship between them is indeed obscure, and previous solutions mostly focus only on a single system. In this paper, we propose a visual analytics system to investigate the similarities and differences between bike-sharing and taxi systems. The service region for each bike station is created to fuse bike-sharing data and taxi data. We harness two three-order tensors to represent them in a unified framework to generate potential patterns by tensor decomposition. The visual analytics system integrates two spatiotemporal data sources by analyzing the patterns that are typical of each data source and the patterns that are common to both data sources to assist users in better discovering the relationships between the taxi system and the bike-sharing system. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our system through real-world case studies. The urban transportation system is the footstone of a city’s infrastructure, and the booming bike-sharing system has become a vital part of urban transportation. Understanding the bike-sharing system and traditional taxi system as well as their similarities and differences are essential for bike-sharing rebalancing, taxi dispatching, and urban planning. However, due to the sparseness of record data and the difference in service regions, the relationship between them is indeed obscure, and previous solutions mostly focus only on a single system. In this paper, we propose a visual analytics system to investigate the similarities and differences between bike-sharing and taxi systems. The service region for each bike station is created to fuse bike-sharing data and taxi data. We harness two three-order tensors to represent them in a unified framework to generate potential patterns by tensor decomposition. The visual analytics system integrates two spatiotemporal data sources by analyzing the patterns that are typical of each data source and the patterns that are common to both data sources to assist users in better discovering the relationships between the taxi system and the bike-sharing system. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our system through real-world case studies. Keywords Tensor decomposition Taxi Bike-sharing Visual analytics
1 Introduction Optimizing urban transport requires understanding the links between its internal components, e.g., bus, taxi, subway, bike-sharin
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