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An Intelligent System for Taxi Service Monitoring, Analytics and Visualization
The fast advancement in sensor data acquisition and communication technology greatly facilitates the collection of data from taxis, and thus enables analyzing the citywide taxi service system. In this paper, we present a novel and practical system for taxi service monitoring, analytics and visualization. By utilizing both of the buffered streaming and the large-size historical taxi data, the sy...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Nature
سال: 2007
ISSN: 0028-0836,1476-4687
DOI: 10.1038/449035a