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Clustering of Urban Road Paths; Identifying the Optimal Set of Linear and Nonlinear Clustering Features

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Urban traffic is undoubtedly a dynamic phenomenon presenting variations over both time and space, that in the majority of cases are the result of a mixture of, either well known (i.e. weather, seasonality) or not easily predictable (i.e. events, accidents) external factors. Identification of similarities in the performance of different urban road paths under different traffic states (different travel demand conditions) is the main subject of the current paper. Floating taxi travel time data (timeseries per road path) collected in the framework of Thessaloniki Smart Mobility Living Lab (initiated and operated by CERTH/HIT) consist the basic input for the hierarchical clustering that is applied. Clustering applies upon different combinations of road paths’ features (data points of travel time timeseries, descriptive statistics and mutual information of timeseries). The comparison of the clustering results based on average weekdays travel times per road path (from a six months period) with the respective results of a typical and an atypical day adds on the interpretability of underlying relations among paths under different states. The analysis reveals that resulting clusters can be a building block for the spatiotemporal understanding of urban traffic. Furthermore, it is shown that adding as clustering feature the criterion of mutual information of timeseries, therefore taking into account also non-linear dependences of the different road paths, the clustering interpretability is differentiated.

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    Glykeria Myrovali, Maria Morfoulaki & Georgia Ayfantopoulou

  2. Laboratory of Hydromechanics and Environmental Engineering, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Thessaly, 38334, Volos, Greece

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Myrovali, G., Karakasidis, T., Morfoulaki, M., Ayfantopoulou, G. (2021). Clustering of Urban Road Paths; Identifying the Optimal Set of Linear and Nonlinear Clustering Features. In: Nathanail, E.G., Adamos, G., Karakikes, I. (eds) Advances in Mobility-as-a-Service Systems. CSUM 2020. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1278. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-61075-3_106

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