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原文传递 Real-time Incident Detection Using Social Media Data.

题名：	Real-time Incident Detection Using Social Media Data.
作者：	Qian, Z. S.
关键词：	Social media, Incident detection, Data mining, Web application development, Emergency response systems, Transportation management, Real-time Incident
摘要：	The effectiveness of traditional incident detection is often limited by sparse sensor coverage, and reporting incidents to emergency response systems is labor-intensive. This research project mines tweet texts to extract incident information on both highways and arterials as an efficient and costeffective alternative to existing data sources. This research report presents a methodology to crawl, process and filter tweets that are accessible by the public for free. Tweets are acquired from Twitter using the REST API in real time. The process of adaptive data acquisition establishes a dictionary of important keywords and their combinations that can imply traffic incidents (TI). A tweet is then mapped into a high dimensional binary vector in a feature space formed by the dictionary, and classified into either TI related or not. All the TI tweets are then geocoded to determine their locations, and further classified into one of the five incident categories. We apply the methodology in two regions, the Pittsburgh and Philadelphia Metropolitan Areas. Overall, mining tweets holds great potentials to complement existing traffic incident data in a very cheap way. A small sample of tweets acquired from the Twitter API cover most of the incidents reported in the existing data set, and additional incidents can be identified through analyzing tweets text. Twitter also provides ample additional information with a reasonable coverage on arterials. A tweet that is related to TI and geocodable accounts for approximately 10% of all the acquired tweets. Of those geocodable TI tweets, the majority are posted by influential users (IU), namely public Twitter accounts owned by public agencies and media, while a small number is contributed by individual users. There is more incident information provided by Twitter on weekends than on weekdays. Within the same day, both individuals and IUs tend to report incidents more frequently during the day time than at night, especially during traffic peak hours. Individual tweets are more likely to report incidents near the center of a city, and the volume of information significantly decays outwards from the center. We develop a prototype web application to allow users extract both real-time and historical incident information and visualize it on the map. The web application will be tested in PennDOT transportation management centers.
总页数：	Qian, Z. S.
报告类型：	科技报告