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Zhao, Zhan; Koutsopoulos, Haris N.; Zhao, Jinhua
Transportation research. Part C, Emerging technologies, 07/2020, Volume: 116Journal Article
•The paper develops a spatiotemporal topic model for human activity discovery.•Each topic is a distribution over space and time that corresponds to an activity.•The model accounts for a mixture of discrete and continuous travel attributes.•The model fits the data significantly better than heuristic approaches.•The number of topics controls the granularity of discovered activity patterns. Although automatically collected human travel records can accurately capture the time and location of human movements, they do not directly explain the hidden semantic structures behind the data, e.g., activity types. This work proposes a probabilistic topic model, adapted from Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA), to discover representative and interpretable activity categorization from individual-level spatiotemporal data in an unsupervised manner. Specifically, the activity-travel episodes of an individual user are treated as words in a document, and each topic is a distribution over space and time that corresponds to certain type of activity. The model accounts for a mixture of discrete and continuous attributes—the location, start time of day, start day of week, and duration of each activity episode. The proposed methodology is demonstrated using pseudonymized transit smart card data from London, U.K. The results show that the model can successfully distinguish the three most basic types of activities—home, work, and other. As the specified number of activity categories increases, more specific subpatterns for home and work emerge, and both the goodness of fit and predictive performance for travel behavior improve. This work makes it possible to enrich human mobility data with representative and interpretable activity patterns without relying on predefined activity categories or heuristic rules.
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