The Efficacy of Using Social Media Data for Designing Traffic Management Systems
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Abstract
It has long been acknowledged in the context of developing dynamic and reactive systems that users' input during different stages of the development process helps to quickly and incrementally adapt to changes in the system's context and users' needs. Given the data- and communication-intensive nature of developing transportation management systems, utilizing social media data provides a new route for a dynamic collection of needs and experiences in a timely and direct fashion. In this paper, we will explore how and to what extent social media data can support urban traffic management systems. To this end, we have conducted a mixed-method study including both manual qualitative analysis, and automatic information extraction using weighted finite-state transducers (WFST), natural language processing (NLP), and deep neural networks (DNN) on Twitter data. We utilize Canadian traffic information from twitter to look for issues and relevant information that may assist authorities and software development teams in making decisions when designing and developing traffic management systems by leveraging lay people's input. Data triangulation will also be used to help compare our results against other data sources such as Google Trends and scientific material. We found that the self-reported traffic information with lay users on Twitter can be a valuable source to characterize traffic management systems. Moreover, we found that although theory-based publications in the context of traffic management systems can help with traffic estimation, control, and prediction, they are insufficient to characterize the context-sensitive aspects of these systems.
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