eprintid: 1475701 rev_number: 30 eprint_status: archive userid: 608 dir: disk0/01/47/57/01 datestamp: 2016-03-01 15:40:15 lastmod: 2021-09-26 22:45:46 status_changed: 2016-12-23 11:38:56 type: article metadata_visibility: show creators_name: Shen, J creators_name: Cheng, T title: A framework for identifying activity groups from individual space-time profiles ispublished: pub divisions: UCL divisions: B04 divisions: C05 divisions: F44 keywords: Activity pattern; region of interest; behaviour similarity; clustering; time geography note: © 2016 The Author (s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Permission is granted subject to the terms of the License under which the work was published. Please check the License conditions for the work which you wish to reuse. Full and appropriate attribution must be given. This permission does not cover any third party copyrighted material which may appear in the work requested. abstract: Datasets collecting the ever-changing position of moving individuals are usually big and possess high spatial and temporal resolution to reveal activity patterns of individuals in greater detail. Information about human mobility, such as ‘when, where and why people travel’, is contained in these datasets and is necessary for urban planning and public policy making. Nevertheless, how to segregate the users into groups with different movement and behaviours and generalise the patterns of groups are still challenging. To address this, this article develops a theoretical framework for uncovering space-time activity patterns from individual’s movement trajectory data and segregating users into subgroups according to these patterns. In this framework, individuals’ activities are modelled as their visits to spatio-temporal region of interests (ST-ROIs) by incorporating both the time and places the activities take place. An individual’s behaviour is defined as his/her profile of time allocation on the ST-ROIs she/he visited. A hierarchical approach is adopted to segregate individuals into subgroups based upon the similarity of these individuals’ profiles. The proposed framework is tested in the analysis of the behaviours of London foot patrol police officers based on their GPS trajectories provided by the Metropolitan Police. date: 2016-01-29 date_type: published official_url: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13658816.2016.1139119 oa_status: green full_text_type: pub language: eng primo: open primo_central: open_green article_type_text: Article in Press verified: verified_manual elements_id: 1113640 doi: 10.1080/13658816.2016.1139119 lyricists_name: Cheng, Tao lyricists_id: TCHEN23 actors_name: Cheng, Tao actors_id: TCHEN23 actors_role: owner full_text_status: public publication: International Journal of Geographical Information Science volume: 30 number: 9 pagerange: 1785-1805 issn: 1362-3087 citation: Shen, J; Cheng, T; (2016) A framework for identifying activity groups from individual space-time profiles. International Journal of Geographical Information Science , 30 (9) pp. 1785-1805. 10.1080/13658816.2016.1139119 <https://doi.org/10.1080/13658816.2016.1139119>. Green open access document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1475701/1/A%20framework%20for%20identifying%20activity%20groups%20from%20individual%20space%20time%20profiles.pdf