Transportation
Halo
Batty's
Big Cities
Glaeser's
Limitations
Let's Ride
A Bus
Random
Facts
100

NHTS stands for this

National Household Travel Survey

100

Intelligent, information, and virtual are synonyms for BLANK

Smart cities

100

Glaeser states that when big data becomes powerful is it combined with this

Exogenous variation sources or exogenous shocks

100

Despite being 60 feet long, this vehicle can zip through traffic

Bus Rapid Transit

100

This is the current network system that people's devices connect to

5G

200

Finish the sentence...Big data is just a cost until...

You put it to use

200

University College London, UK, is where this author is associated

Michael Batty
200

These are the two types of exogenous variation sources that Glaeser discusses in the article

shocks to people and shocks to places

200

This agency used cell phone data from over 5 million users in order to improve bus ridership

Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transit Authority

200

This company processes over 40,000 search queries every second on average which translates to over 3.5 billion searches per day and 1.2 trillion searches per year worldwide

Google

300

LBS stands for this

Location Based-Services

300

This is the card system that Londoners use to pay for travel (rail, bus, tube, trains)

Oyster Card

300

Glaeser discuss the use of Google Street View as a way of predicition income and this other variable

housing prices

300

Analysis of traffic patterns allows transportation authority to use this "stick" to reduce car trips and traffic congestion

Congestion pricing

300

Users on this platform send on average 31.25 million messages and view 2.77 million videos every minute

Facebook

400

This is the average number of destinations someone travels in a month

13 or 14

400

This is length of time over which cities are typically planned (i.e. long range planning)

20-50 years

400

Glaeser lists two major issues with using contingent valuation methods in surveying. Name of the two

noninstrumentality or nonfamiliarity

400

This app crowdsources user data in order to provide directions and shortest commute routes

Waze

400

This content sharing platform has more than 2 billion users, which is about 1/3 of the internet

YouTube

500

These two Kitchin Typology words are used to describe transportation data

Velocity and Exhaustive

500

This is the method where individuals enter their own data

Crowd sourcing

500

The trail of data left online by day-to-day internet use if referred to by Glaeser as this two-word term

digital exhaust

500

Data from this source was able to show that 2.3 of all car trips are less than 5 miles

Cell phones

500

This service accounts for 20% of all broadband usage in America on any given night

Netflix