Mitigating bias in big data for transportation

GP Griffin, M Mulhall, C Simek, WW Riggs - Journal of Big Data Analytics in …, 2020 - Springer
Emerging big data resources and practices provide opportunities to improve transportation
safety planning and outcomes. However, researchers and practitioners recognise that big …

“Desperately Need a Car”: Analyzing crowdfunding campaigns for car purchases and repairs on Gofundme. com

NJ Klein, M Tran, S Riley - Travel Behaviour and Society, 2020 - Elsevier
Our study explores the phenomenon of using the crowdfunding website GoFundMe. com to
raise money to purchase and or repair a personal vehicle. We use both text mining and …

The effect of economic incentives and cooperation messages on user participation in crowdsourced public transport technologies

J Arriagada, C Mena, M Munizaga, D Schwartz - Transportation, 2023 - Springer
Transport data is crucial for transport planning and operations. Collecting high-quality data
has long been challenging due to the difficulty of achieving adequate spatiotemporal …

An improved methodology for extracting information required for transport-related decisions from Q&A forums: A case study of TripAdvisor

A Gal-Tzur, A Rechavi, D Beimel, S Freund - Travel Behaviour and Society, 2018 - Elsevier
The potential of social media (SM) as a dissemination channel for traffic information is
becoming increasingly apparent. Many authorities around the world have created dedicated …

Travel and us: The impact of mode share on sentiment using geo-social media and GIS

G Rybarczyk, S Banerjee… - Journal of Location …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Commute stress is a serious health problem that impacts nearly everyone. Considering that
microblogged geo-locational information offers new insight into human attitudes, the present …

The San Francisco Travel Quality Study: tracking trials and tribulations of a transit taker

A Carrel, R Sengupta, JL Walker - Transportation, 2017 - Springer
In hel** understand the dynamics of travel choice behavior and traveler satisfaction over
time, multi-day panel data is invaluable (McFadden in Am Econ Rev 91 (3): 351–378, 2001) …

[HTML][HTML] Using social media to evaluate associations between parking supply and parking sentiment

A Mondschein, DA King, C Hoehne, Z Jiang… - Transportation Research …, 2020 - Elsevier
A common complaint against changing parking requirements is that parking is critical for
businesses to survive. Such statements are generally taken as a statement of fact by …

What can We learn from online reviews? Examining the reviews of Los Angeles metro rail stations

EJ Shin - Journal of Planning Education and Research, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Out-of-vehicle time is a well-known major burden of transit travel. Although transit stations'
characteristics likely affect people's perceptions of out-of-vehicle time and decisions to use …

Activity involvement and time spent on computers for leisure: an econometric analysis on the American Time Use Survey dataset

H Dong, C Cirillo, M Diana - Transportation, 2018 - Springer
Internet is capturing more and more of our time each day, and the increasing levels of
engagement are mainly due to the use of social media. Time spent on social media is …

Analyzing parking sentiment and its relationship to parking supply and the built environment using online reviews

Z Jiang, A Mondschein - Journal of Big Data Analytics in Transportation, 2021 - Springer
This study examines positive and negative sentiments associated with parking experiences
reported in online Yelp reviews for four metropolitan areas in North America, leveraging …