The setup of a mobile mobility panel for the Netherlands

This paper describes the setup of the Dutch Mobile Mobility Panel project, in which GPS-enabled mobile phones (smartphones) are used as a passive multiple-week and multiple-year travel behaviour data collection tool. The data collection methodology used in the Dutch Mobile Mobility Panel comprised firstly the development of a smartphone application for iPhone and Android smartphones that automatically detects trips with its accompanying characteristics. Secondly, the trip data collected is enriched daily on a back-end server using data mining techniques to deduce suggestions for transport mode... Mehr ...