7. Conclusions and future work
As taxi service is supervised by certain electronic equipment (e.g., GPS equipment) and network technique (e.g., cab reservation through Uber in USA or DIDI in China), taxi business is a typical electronic commerce mode. Mobile computing technology over GPS big data from GPS-equipped taxis makes it possible to obtain potential knowledge in understanding the behavior of urban commerce, the rule of social activities and road network dynamics. In this paper, we have proposed a real-time taxi trajectory monitoring method to detect taxi anomalous driving activities online and in real time. Technically, first the road network modeling is investigated. Based on the road networking model, an online anomalous trajectory detection method, named OnATrade, has been presented to analyze the online driving behaviors of taxi drivers. This method is validated based on a large data set for realworld GPS traces. In the future, the method could be perfected for demonstrating its advantage in social behavior analysis. Moreover, more real-world applications will be developed to validate our method, such as mobile APP supporting smart travel, real-time path recommendation and navigation service in smart city development, and so on. We believe that these value-added applications could benefit from our big data analysis method over taxi’s GPS data sets.