Origin-Destination estimation using mobile network probe data

Abstract

Mobile phone operators produce enormous amounts of data. In this paper we present applications performed with a dataset (probe data) collected by the operator Orange in 2017 in Rhône Alpes Region, France. Trips are deduced from the spatiotemporal trajectory of devices through a hypothesis of stationarity in order to define activities. Trips are then aggregated in an origin-destination matrix which is compared with traditional data (household travel survey). With some hypothesis we obtain somewhat similar origin-destination matrix, with a slope close to one when we regress the number of trips of each origindestination from mobile phone data with household survey data.