Visualizing Interchange Patterns in Massive Movement Data

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2013
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The Eurographics Association and Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
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Massive amount of movement data, such as daily trips made by millions of passengers in a city, are widely available nowadays. They are a highly valuable means not only for unveiling human mobility patterns, but also for assisting transportation planning, in particular for metropolises around the world. In this paper, we focus on a novel aspect of visualizing and analyzing massive movement data, i.e., the interchange pattern, aiming at revealing passenger redistribution in a traffic network. We first formulate a new model of circos figure, namely the interchange circos diagram, to present interchange patterns at a junction node in a bundled fashion, and optimize the color assignments to respect the connections within and between junction nodes. Based on this, we develop a family of visual analysis techniques to help users interactively study interchange patterns in a spatiotemporal manner: 1) multi-spatial scales: from network junctions such as train stations to people flow across and between larger spatial areas; and 2) temporal changes of patterns from different times of the day. Our techniques have been applied to real movement data consisting of hundred thousands of trips, and we present also two case studies on how transportation experts worked with our interface.
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@article{
:10.1111/cgf.12114
, journal = {Computer Graphics Forum}, title = {{
Visualizing Interchange Patterns in Massive Movement Data
}}, author = {
Zeng, Wei
and
Fu, Chi-Wing
and
Arisona, Stefan Müller
and
Qu, Huamin
}, year = {
2013
}, publisher = {
The Eurographics Association and Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
}, ISSN = {
1467-8659
}, DOI = {
/10.1111/cgf.12114
} }
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