Using Social Media to Characterise Crowds in City Events for Crowd Management

Doctoral Thesis (2020)
Author(s)

V. Gong (TU Delft - Transport and Planning)

Contributor(s)

Serge P. Hoogendoorn – Promotor (TU Delft - Transport and Planning)

W. Daamen – Promotor (TU Delft - Transport and Planning)

Alessandro Bozzon – Copromotor (TU Delft - Web Information Systems, TU Delft - Human-Centred Artificial Intelligence)

Transport and Planning
Copyright
© 2020 X. Gong
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Publication Year
2020
Language
English
Copyright
© 2020 X. Gong
Transport and Planning
Bibliographical Note
TRAIL Thesis Series no. T2020/14, the Netherlands Research School TRAIL@en
ISBN (print)
978-90-5584-270-4
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Abstract

Using social media data, such as Twitter and Instagram, I identify relevant information, develop data models, estimate and analyse crowds’ characteristics in city events, including demographic and city-role composition, Spatial-temporal distribution, sentiment estimation, Points of Interest preferences, word use, crowd size and density estimation, which help crowd managers make better decisions.