Vehicles equipped with GPS localizers are an important sensory device for examining
people's movements and activities. Taxis equipped with GPS localizers serve the …

Abstract A Vehicular Social Network (VSN) is an emerging field of communication where
relevant concepts are being borrowed from two different disciplines, ie, vehicular ad-hoc …

Taxi GPS traces can inform us the human mobility patterns in modern cities. Instead of
leveraging the costly and inaccurate human surveys about people's mobility, we intend to …

With the advent of GPS tracking technology, how to make use of taxi trajectories to efficiently
and effectively reduce taxis cruising distance is an active and challenging research topic. In …

With recent advances in mobile and sensor technologies, a large amount of efforts have
been made on developing intelligent applications for taxi drivers, which provide beneficial …

Recommending routes for a group of competing taxi drivers is almost untouched in most
route recommender systems. For this kind of problem, recommendation fairness and driving …

Recent developments in pervasive location acquisition technologies provide the technical
support for massive collection of trajectory data. Activity locations identified from trajectory …

In the literature, much effort has been devoted to providing taxi drivers with
recommendations on how to find passengers efficiently. However, the load balancing …

Every time after the taxi drivers drop off their previous passengers, they have to decide how
to search for the next passengers. It may lead to poor performance if the taxi drivers cruise …

The prediction of the destination location at the time of pickup is an important problem with
potential for substantial impact on the efficiency of a GPS-enabled taxi service. While this …