sensors

Data Linkage to Validate and Calibrate Traffic Estimations on a Nationwide Scale: A Framework for Official Statistics

Traffic estimation is an important area in official statistics and is used by policymakers in their decision-making process for regional planning. This paper describes a framework that relies on combining large amounts of data from traffic loop …

Pictures instead of survey questions: An experimental investigation of the feasibility of using pictures in a housing survey

Anyone with a smartphone can take pictures anytime anywhere. This opens the opportunity for researchers to collect photos to augment traditional Web survey data. We conducted an experimental survey asking 2700 members of the Dutch LISS panel about …

Maximum interpolable gap length in missing smartphone-based GPS mobility data

Passively-generated location data have the potential to augment mobility and transportation research, as demonstrated by a decade of research. A common trait of these data is a high proportion of missingness. Naïve handling, including list-wise …

An app-assisted travel survey in official statistics. Possibilities and challenges

Advances in smartphone technology have allowed for individuals to have access to nearcontinuous location tracking at a very precise level. As the backbone of mobility research, the Travel Diary Study, has continued to offer decreasing response rates …