We discuss and explore the use of time-series data
mining techniques in transportation domain. The
application of time-series data mining would allow
transport planners to effectively transform large amount
of complex temporal data into actionable insights and
knowledge.
We demonstrate the use of time-series data mining in
transportation domain with a case study on Singapore
public train transit. The case study would apply
time-series data mining techniques on over 60 million
commuters‘ public train transit trips and generate travel
patterns of commuters for 102 train stations.
We derived several interesting insights on commuters‘
travel patterns and behavior from the case study. These
generated insights provide an example to urban
transport planners on how they could leverage
time-series data miming to better understand the
commuters‘ travel patterns and behaviors.