Jingmin Chen

Journal publications [2]

2015

Chen J., Bierlaire M. (2015). Probabilistic multimodal map-matching with rich smartphone data. Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems 19 (2):134-148


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  volume = {19},
  number = {2},
  pages = {134-148},
  DOI = {10.1080/15472450.2013.764796},
  note = {Accepted on Oct 22, 2012}}}

2013

Bierlaire M., Chen J., Newman J. (2013). A Probabilistic Map Matching Method for Smartphone GPS data. Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies 26 :78�98


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  title = {A Probabilistic Map Matching Method for Smartphone GPS data},
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  year = {2013},
  volume = {26},
  pages = {78{\textendash}98},
  DOI = {10.1016/j.trc.2012.08.001},
  note = {Accepted on Aug 03, 2012}}}

Book chapters [1]

2014

Kazagli E., Chen J., Bierlaire M. (2014) Individual Mobility Analysis Using Smartphone Data. In Soora Rasouli and Harry Timmermans (ed) Mobile Technologies for Activity-Travel Data Collection and Analysis, IGI Global [ISBN 9781466661707]


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  title = { Individual Mobility Analysis Using Smartphone Data},
  year = {2014},
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  editor = {Soora Rasouli and Harry Timmermans},
  publisher = {IGI Global},
  pages = {187-208}}}

Technical reports [2]

2012

Chen J., Bierlaire M. (2012). Probabilistic multimodal map-matching with rich smartphone data. Report TRANSP-OR 120618


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  year = {2012},
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  number = {TRANSP-OR 120618},
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2010

Bierlaire M., Chen J., Newman J. (2010). Modeling Route Choice Behavior From Smartphone GPS data. Report TRANSP-OR 101016


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  year = {2010},
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Articles in conference proceedings [5]

2011

Chen J., Bierlaire M., Flötteröd G. (2011) Probabilistic multi-modal map matching with rich smartphone data. Proceedings of the Swiss Transportation Research Conference (STRC), May 11-13, 2011 , Monte Verit�, Ascona , Switzerland


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  booktime = {Proceedings of the Swiss Transportation Research Conference (STRC), May 11-13, 2011	},
  year = {2011},
  address = {Monte Verit\`a, Ascona	, Switzerland}}}

2010

Bierlaire M., Chen J., Newman J. (2010) Using location observations to observe routing for choice models. Proceedings of the 89th Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting (TRB), January 10-14, Washington D.C., US


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  author = {Michel Bierlaire and Jingmin Chen and Jeffrey Newman},
  title = {Using location observations to observe routing for choice models},
  booktime = {Proceedings of the 89th Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting (TRB), January 10-14},
  year = {2010},
  address = {Washington D.C., US}}}

2009

Newman J., Chen J., Bierlaire M. (2009) Generating probabilistic path observation from GPS data for route choice modeling. Proceedings of the European Transport Conference (ETC), 5-7 October 2009, , The Netherlands


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  author = {Jeffrey Newman and Jingmin Chen and Michel Bierlaire},
  title = {Generating probabilistic path observation from GPS data for route choice modeling},
  booktime = {Proceedings of the European Transport Conference (ETC), 5-7 October 2009},
  year = {2009},
  address = {, The Netherlands}}}

Chen J., Newman J., Bierlaire M. (2009) Modeling Route Choice Behavior From Smart-phone GPS data. Proceedings of the The 12th International Conference on Travel Behaviour Research (IATBR), December 13-18, 2009, Jaipur, India


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  author = {Jingmin Chen and Jeffrey Newman and Michel Bierlaire},
  title = {Modeling Route Choice Behavior From Smart-phone GPS data},
  booktime = {Proceedings of the The 12th International Conference on Travel Behaviour Research (IATBR), December 13-18, 2009},
  year = {2009},
  address = {Jaipur, India}}}

Bierlaire M., Newman J., Chen J. (2009) A method of probabilistic map distribution of path likelihood. Proceedings of the 9th Swiss Transport Research Conference (STRC), September 9 - 11, Ascona, Switzerland


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  author = {Michel Bierlaire and Jeffrey Newman and Jingmin Chen},
  title = {A method of probabilistic map distribution of path likelihood},
  booktime = {Proceedings of the 9th Swiss Transport Research Conference (STRC), September 9 - 11},
  year = {2009},
  address = {Ascona, Switzerland}}}

Talks [9]

2011

Chen J., Bierlaire M., Flötteröd G. Probabilistic multi-modal map matching with rich smartphone data May 13, 2011. Swiss Transportation Research Conference .


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  year = {2011},
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2010

Chen J., Bierlaire M., Hurtubia R., Flötteröd G. Inferring smartphone users� activities August 20, 2010. Swiss Transportation Research Conference, Ascona.


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  year = {2010},
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Chen J., Bierlaire M. Description of the Nokia data collection campaign: Issues and successes July 15, 2010. iTeam Meeting, Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisbon.


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  year = {2010},
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Chen J., Bierlaire M. Description of the Nokia data collection campaign: Issues and successes July 12, 2010. World Conference on Transport Research, Lisbon, Portugal.


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Chen J., Hurtubia R., Bierlaire M. Exploiting smart phone data to identify users' activities June 23, 2010. NRC-Lausanne bi-annual seminars, EPFL.


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2009

Chen J., Newman J., Bierlaire M. Modeling Route Choice Behavior From Smart-phone GPS data December 17, 2009. The 12th International Conference on Travel Behavior Research, Jaipur, India.


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  year = {2009},
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Chen J. A visualization tool for Nokia Smartphone data December 04, 2009. Nokia Research Center Data Collection Workshop, Nokia Research Center in Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland.


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Newman J., Chen J., Bierlaire M. GENERATING PROBABILISTIC PATH OBSERVATION FROM GPS DATA FOR ROUTE CHOICE MODELING October 05, 2009. European Transportation Conference 2009.


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Bierlaire M., Newman J., Chen J. A method of calculating path observation likelihood from GPS data August 28, 2009. Workshop on discrete choice models, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland.


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  year = {2009},
  note = {Presented at Workshop on discrete choice models, Ecole Polytechnique F\éd\érale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland}}}

Reviewing [2]

Research projects [2]

2010

Route choice models and smart phone data

Smart phones are able to collect a great wealth of information about the mobility patterns of individuals, including their itinerary. In addition to GPS tracks, smart phones contain several sensors and software revealing various aspects of the user's behavior (nearby Bluetooth devices, WiFi antenna, media players, etc.) Route choice models rely on the knowledge of the origin and the destination of the trip, and the transportation mode. They may also benefit from other contextual data, such as the trip purpose or the chain of subsequent activities. We plan to investigate how to infer this information from the smart phone data.
- Oct 01, 2010 - Sep 30, 2013
- Sponsor: Swiss National Science Foundation
- Principal investigator: Michel Bierlaire
- Project manager: Jingmin Chen
- Collaborator: Jingmin Chen

2008

Disaggregate behavioral models exploiting data from Nokia devices

The projects aims at investigating how to perform an appropriate fusion of data from smartphones in order to predict the mobility behavior of a given individual.
- Dec 01, 2008 - Jun 30, 2010
- Sponsor: Nokia Research Center
- Principal investigator: Michel Bierlaire
- Project manager: Jeffrey Newman
- Collaborator: Jingmin Chen

EPFL courses [4]

Spring 2012

Decision-aid methodologies in transportation.
- Level: Master
- Section: Civil Engineering
- Lecturers: Michel Bierlaire, Prem Kumar
- Teaching assistants: Jingmin Chen, Nitish Umang
- Webpage: http://transp-or.epfl.ch/courses/decisionAid2012

Spring 2011

Decision-aid methodologies in transportation.
- Level: Master
- Section: Civil Engineering
- Lecturers: Michel Bierlaire, Prem Kumar
- Teaching assistants: Jingmin Chen, Nitish Umang
- Webpage: http://transp-or.epfl.ch/courses/decisionAid2011

Fall 2009

Mathematical Modeling of Behavior.
- Level: Master
- Section: Mathematics
- Lecturer: Michel Bierlaire
- Teaching assistants: Thomas Robin, Jingmin Chen
- Webpage: NULL

Spring 2009

Recherche op�rationnelle.
- Level: Bachelor
- Sections: Civil Engineering, Environmental Sciences and Engineering
- Lecturer: Michel Bierlaire
- Teaching assistants: Mamy Fetiarison, Jingmin Chen
- Webpage: NULL

MSc theses [2]

2011

Mobility in the Middle East, Laurene Aigrain (Civil Engineering)
- Supervision: Michel Bierlaire, Jingmin Chen
- External expert: Prof. John Polak

2010

Balancing Energy Consumption and Location Precision in Continuous Location Tracking, Julien Eberle (Computer science)
- Supervision: Michel Bierlaire, Jingmin Chen
- External expert: Gian Paolo Perrucci

Semester projects [5]

2012-2013

Mobility learning from smartphone WIFI data, Amélie Buisson (Civil Engineering)

Supervision: Jingmin Chen, Evanthia Kazagli, Marija Nikolic
Smartphone is a powerful and convenient platform for collecting location data for mobility behavior research. Most of the research relies on GPS to get accurate location, or GSM to get massively available but imprecise location. This project investigates the feasibility of using WIFI data for mobility behavior research. The dataset is collected from 200 smartphones over 2 years. The data collection application (EPFLScope) records all nearby WIFI access points (AP) every 3-5 minutes. Some of the WIFI access points are associated with location information. Therefore, it is possible to identify the location of the smartphone according to the nearby WIFI AP. With this location information, we can further understand spatial and temporal mobility patterns.

2011-2012

Mobility identification from smartphone GPS data, Denis Garcia (Mathematics)

Supervision: Jingmin Chen, Ricardo Hurtubia
We record data from smarpthones over 2 years from about 180 N95 smartphone user. The data includes, GPS, nearby Bluetooth devices, nearby WIFI spots, calendar, etc. This project aims at identifying mobility history (trips and destinations) from raw data. The project will be based on some existing solutions (with existing Java and Python code). And the student will improve or develop a new software to process the data, and generate and visualize the data. You can choose among Python, Java or C++ for the project. The objectives of the project are following (You can choose among them): 1. Identify trips (origin, destination and time) from the GPS data. 2. Detect transportation mode (car, or public transport, etc) from the trips.

2010-2011

Travel behavior models: an Abu Dhabi case study, Laurène Aigrain (Civil Engineering)

Supervision: Michel Bierlaire, Jingmin Chen
In this project, the student aims at studying the state-of-the-art demand modeling method- ologies in the transportation field. She will learn discrete choice models, and relevant tech- niques, such as simulation, and apply them in the study of mode choice and/or driving behavior. An Abu Dhabi case study will be carried out.

2009-2010

Testing the algorithm for generating path observation from GPS data, Jensen Anders Fjendbo (Civil Engineering)

Supervision: Michel Bierlaire, Jingmin Chen
This project aims at using and testing an innovative probabilistic path observation generation algorithm on location data and comparing against state-of-the-art map matching algorithms.

Visualization of Cell Phone Data on Google Earth, Raoul Neu (Computer science)

Supervision: Jingmin Chen
This project aims at providing to our data collection campaign participants a convenient and lively way of visualizing cell phone data which is collected from their cell phones and stored on web servers. Various kinds of data are display on google earth to show chains of users� activities, with time-space information provided by GPS data.