Exploration of big traffic data for urban areas with R

Abstract

The paper puts forward employing open source software and open standards on the cloud, and lists candidate tools and technology for collecting, analyzing and visualizing big traffic data customized as R. Finally, it designs an integrated platform as Business Intelligence (BI) and illustrates the whole idea with a prototype R and Shiny system.

Keywords:

• Big data
• Urban traffic
• Spatiotemporal
• Urban behavior
• R