A C-DBSCAN algorithm for determining bus-stop locations based on taxi GPS data

Wu Wang, Li Tao, Chao Gao, Binfeng Wang, Hui Yang, Zili Zhang, Zili Zhang

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Abstract

Determining suitable bus-stop locations is critical in improving the quality of bus services. Previous studies on selecting bus stop locations mainly consider environmental factors such as population density and traffic conditions, seldom of them consider the travel patterns of people, which is a key factor for determining bus-stop locations. In order to draw people’s travel patterns, this paper improves the density-based spatial clustering of applications with noise (DBSCAN) algorithm to find hot pick-up and drop-off locations based on taxi GPS data. The discovered density-based hot locations could be regarded as the candidate for bus-stop locations. This paper further utilizes the improved DBSCAN algorithm, namely as C-DBSCAN in this paper, to discover candidate bus-stop locations to Capital International Airport in Beijing based on taxi GPS data in November 2012. Finally, this paper discusses the effects of key parameters in C-DBSCAN algorithm on the clustering results. Keywords Bus-stop locations, Public transport service, Taxi GPS data, Centralize density-based spatial clustering of applications with noise.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)293-304
Number of pages12
JournalLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume8933
DOIs
StatePublished - 2014
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Bus-stop locations
  • Centralize density-based spatial clustering of applications with noise
  • Public transport service
  • Taxi GPS data

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