ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences
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Articles | Volume III-2
https://doi.org/10.5194/isprs-annals-III-2-173-2016
https://doi.org/10.5194/isprs-annals-III-2-173-2016
02 Jun 2016
 | 02 Jun 2016

BIG BICYCLE DATA PROCESSING: FROM PERSONAL DATA TO URBAN APPLICATIONS

C. J. Pettit, S. N. Lieske, and S. Z. Leao

Keywords: Big data, little data, data processing, data visualisation

Abstract. Understanding the flows of people moving through the built environment is a vital source of information for the planners and policy makers who shape our cities. Smart phone applications enable people to trace themselves through the city and these data can potentially be then aggregated and visualised to show hot spots and trajectories of macro urban movement. In this paper our aim is to develop procedures for cleaning, aggregating and visualising human movement data and translating this into policy relevant information. In conducting this research we explore using bicycle data collected from a smart phone application known as RiderLog. We focus on the RiderLog application initially in the context of Sydney, Australia and discuss the procedures and challenges in processing and cleaning this data before any analysis can be made. We then present some preliminary map results using the CartoDB online mapping platform where data are aggregated and visualised to show hot spots and trajectories of macro urban movement. We conclude the paper by highlighting some of the key challenges in working with such data and outline some next steps in processing the data and conducting higher volume and more extensive analysis.