Group16 Proposal
Urban Pulse: A Case Study on Beijing's Traffic
Background
As China urbanizes, more and more people flood into first-tier cities, which has boosted China's economy while at the same time brought many problems. And Traffic Congestion is obviously one of them.
According to the report from ChinaDaily in early 2018, Beijing comes as the second top traffic congested city in mainland China, right following Jinan, Shandong. Statistics form 2015 suggests that the rush hour delay index of Beijing reaches as 2.046, with the speed of rush hour reaching 21.91 Km/h. Given such severe situation, Chinese government has been working hard to trace the traffic situation in Beijing and come up with implementable suggestions.
With real-time data as backup, the visualization of Beijing's taxi trajectory would help to have a holistic view on the traffic status. With further drill-down look to specific districts and areas, government can find the possible causes for the congestion and then give possible solutions.
Data Source
Our data is from Microsoft, see the link https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/t-drive-trajectory-data-sample/
The dataset contains the GPS trajectories of 10,357 taxis during the period of Feb. 2 to Feb. 8, 2008
within Beijing. The total number of points in this dataset is about 15 million and the total distance of
the trajectories reaches to 9 million kilometers. The average sampling interval is about 177 seconds with a distance
of about 623 meters. Each file is named by the taxi ID, and contains the trajectories of one taxi.
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