Brunsdon, Chris (2013) Review: Computing with spatial trajectories, edited by Yu Zheng, Xiaofang Zhou, Berlin, Springer, 2011, 1st ed., £84.99 (hardcover), 308 pp. ISBN-10: 1461416280; ISBN-13: 978-1461416289. International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 27 (1). p. 208. ISSN 1365-8824

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A first glance at the title of this book might suggest it to be very specialised. Indeed this perhaps reflects my own expectations before opening it. However, once I start reading it I first realised that the topic in itself has a broad portfolio of applications. For example, the ideas used in this book allow the modelling of movements of people, vehicles or animals. These topics then lead to other application areas – for example, tracking people’s move- ments via mobile phone Global Positioning System (GPS) signals allows monitoring of census-based travel-to-work data or allows novel approaches to the estimation of daytime populations of cities to be carried out.

Item Type:	Article
Keywords:	Computing; spatial trajectories; Yu Zheng; Xiaofang Zhou; Berlin;
Academic Unit:	Faculty of Science and Engineering > Research Institutes > National Centre for Geocomputation, NCG
Item ID:	6134
Identification Number:	https://doi.org/10.1080/13658816.2012.741688
Depositing User:	Prof. Chris Brunsdon
Date Deposited:	21 May 2015 13:47
Journal or Publication Title:	International Journal of Geographical Information Science
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	Publisher
Use Licence:	This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here

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