A Review of Urban Studies Based on Transit Smart Card Data

Abstract

The wide application of smart card for automated fare collection in public transit systems has produced large quantities of spatial-temporal data at an individual level.Such data not only records mobility behavior of cardholders,but also reveals the spatial functions of cities.Owing to its high spatial-temporal resolution,low cost and large quantity,transit smart card data attract a lot of attention from urban/transport planners and urban researchers.This article presents a comprehensive review of the latest quantitative urban studies enabled by smart card data from both China and overseas.The review covers the following four aspects:(1) data processing and origin-destination inference,(2) transit operation and management,(3) spatial structure of cities,and(4) mobility behavior and social networks.Finally,the review summarizes existing studies and gives a brief introduction to issues of privacy protection and information extraction.Areas of future research are also pointed out.

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