Aggregated GSM data in Origin Destination studies

Transportation engineering is founded on the availability and abundance of data in order to model, forecast and analyse traffic and mobility movements in general. Especially on the macroscopic level, e.g., for the whole of the Netherlands, the data requirements are very big. An innovative source of data is GSM data. Analysing these data is an ordeal on its own due to size and complexity but most importantly if one considers the restrictions set by self-regulated commercial entities, that market the data, and by law. The restrictions set refer to privacy and result in datasets becoming aggregated in such a level that extracting individual information is impossible. This thesis, using a commercial GSM database, focuses on how can we extract Origins and Destinations from these databases and discusses the trade-off between potential of using the aggregate datasets and compliance with concerns about privacy.Transport and PlanningTransport & PlanningCivil Engineering and Geoscience