Using Twitter as source of traffic data - Concepts and experiences of the project AUSWEG

Engel, Christoph; Magnus, Stephan; Krause, Jan

doi:10.1016/j.procs.2017.06.128

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“…Additionally, this study relies on the contents of the tweets themselves (available geographical description such as road, junction, or station name) to geolocate the tweets. [4] created a concept for (specific domain) information extraction that is based on machine learning and largely independent from the grammatical correctness of the analysed messages. This concept can be used to analyse public available messages on communication platforms like Twitter to get processable data for a specific domain e. g. traffic information.…”

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Public Twitter Data and Transport Network Status

Almohammad

Georgakis

2020

2020 10th International Conference on Information Science and Technology (ICIST)

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Twitter data can be collected and analysed to be used for predicting the status of a transport network at a given time and geographic location (e.g. forecasting disruptions, congestions, or road closures). However, this requires geolocating the tweets to define the parts of the transport network which may be related to these tweets. This paper investigates the relationship between the actual transport network status, with that being synthesised using public Twitter data in the Greater Manchester conurbation. Therefore, it answers the following question: are the sentiments of tweets around the incidents and accidents areas (or bounding boxes) different from the sentiments of tweets in the seamless traffic areas?. According to the used research methodology, analysis techniques, and sentiment detection APIs, it has been concluded that there is no significant difference between the sentiments in the tweets regardless the prevailing traffic conditions of the locations the tweets refer to.

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confidence: 99%