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IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems | 2007

Developing Landmark-Based Pedestrian-Navigation Systems

Alexandra Millonig; Katja Schechtner

Pedestrian-navigation services enable people to retrieve precise instructions to reach a specific location. However, the development of mobile spatial-information technologies for pedestrians is still at the beginning and faces several difficulties. As the spatial behavior of people on foot differs in many ways from the drivers performance, common concepts for car-navigation services are not suitable for pedestrian navigation. Particularly, the usage of landmarks is vitally important in human navigation. This contribution points out the main requirements for pedestrian-navigation technologies and presents an approach to identify pedestrian flows and to imply landmark information into navigation services for pedestrians


international conference on intelligent transportation systems | 2005

Developing landmark-based pedestrian-navigation systems

Alexandra Millonig; Katja Schechtner

Pedestrian-navigation services enable people to retrieve precise instructions to reach a specific location. However, the development of mobile spatial-information technologies for pedestrians is still at the beginning and faces several difficulties. As the spatial behavior of people on foot differs in many ways from the drivers performance, common concepts for car-navigation services are not suitable for pedestrian navigation. Particularly, the usage of landmarks is vitally important in human navigation. This contribution points out the main requirements for pedestrian-navigation technologies and presents an approach to identify pedestrian flows and to imply landmark information into navigation services for pedestrians.


Journal of Location Based Services | 2011

Identifying motion and interest patterns of shoppers for developing personalised wayfinding tools

Alexandra Millonig; Georg Gartner

The development of wayfinding and information tools for pedestrians faces several challenges. In contrast to common navigation tools used for vehicles, navigation services for pedestrians must fulfil more complex requirements in order to be accepted. For pedestrians, the shortest path does not always represent the optimal route for an individuals purposes, as studies have revealed that people often forgo to take the shortest path and prefer the ‘most beautiful’, ‘most convenient’ or ‘safest’ path. People exploring a new environment on foot would therefore especially benefit from systems providing information concerning route qualities, interesting facilities in the vicinity and other useful location-related suggestions. As part of the scientific project ‘UCPNavi’, we investigate group-specific spatio-temporal behaviour and related influence factors of shoppers in order to identify homogeneous behaviour types based on motion patterns and information requirements. We use an eclectic approach combining several complementary empirical methods of data collection and analysis to thoroughly comprehend pedestrian spatio-temporal behaviour. In this contribution, we present results of motion and interview data analysis based on data collected from more than 100 participants during two empirical phases on a shopping street in Vienna. We further introduce an initial pedestrian typology comprising five different homogeneous behaviour types based on qualitative-interpretative and quantitative-statistical data. Types are described according to characteristic attributes identified by route choice behaviour, walking patterns and interest foci. The relevant factors include velocities, stopping behaviour, categories of visited facilities and individual preferences. The resulting typology of lifestyle-based pedestrian mobility styles and the identified characteristic attributes can serve as a basis to create pedestrian interest profiles in ubiquitous environments and to customise navigational and environmental information for mobile applications in order to fulfil individual needs.


international conference on persuasive technology | 2015

What Makes You Bike? Exploring Persuasive Strategies to Encourage Low-Energy Mobility

Matthias Wunsch; Agnis Stibe; Alexandra Millonig; Stefan Seer; Chengzhen Dai; Katja Schechtner; Ryan C. C. Chin

This paper explores three persuasive strategies and their capacity to encourage biking as a low-energy mode of transportation. The strategies were designed based on: (I) triggering messages that harness social influence to facilitate more frequent biking, (II) a virtual bike tutorial to increase biker’s self-efficacy for urban biking, and (III) an arranged bike ride to help less experienced bikers overcome initial barriers towards biking. The potential of these strategies was examined based on self-reported trip data from 44 participants over a period of four weeks, questionnaires, and qualitative interviews. Strategy I showed a significant increase of 13.5 percentage points in share of biking during the intervention, strategy II indicated an increase of perceived self-efficacy for non-routine bikers, and strategy III provided participants with a positive experience of urban biking. The explored strategies contribute to further research on the design and implementation of persuasive technologies in the field of mobility.


Transportation Research Record | 2012

Identification of Mobility-Impaired Persons and Analysis of Their Travel Behavior and Needs

Gerd Sammer; Tina Uhlmann; Wiebke Unbehaun; Alexandra Millonig; Bettina Mandl; Jens S. Dangschat; René Mayr

Mobility is an important prerequisite for equal participation in social life and satisfaction of basic human needs. Mobility impairments can restrict the participation in social life of those affected such that people lack fair opportunities for fulfilling their needs. In the past, mobility problems of people with a physical or sensory disability were the focus of attention, while other attributes causing mobility impairment, such as immigrant backgrounds, poverty, and so forth, were mainly ignored by research and planning, even though, according to estimates, more than one-third of the population are affected. Therefore, there is little qualitative or quantitative knowledge about these impairments and the individual consequences. The objective of this paper is to help fill this knowledge gap. The issue of fair opportunities regarding mobility and the term “mobility impairment” as used in this paper are defined. Fifteen types of mobility impairment are considered. The stratified sample for this survey included 541 mobility-impaired people in Austria with whom semistructured face-to-face interviews were conducted. A key result of the survey is the estimate of the number of people affected and the degree of their impairment. About half of those interviewed were hampered by more than one type of mobility impairment. From the point of view of those affected, there are difficulties that go beyond the mere physical barriers, which have been the focus of traffic planning. Problems are also caused by insufficient welfare systems, gender relations, inappropriate behavior of other transport users, and inadequate information and its transfer within the transport sector. For the solution, new and disregarded strategies are required.


Archive | 2009

Ways of Walking – Developing a Pedestrian Typology for Personalised Mobile Information Systems

Alexandra Millonig; Georg Gartner

In recent years, technological progress and an increasing amount of ubiquitously available information set the stage for the development of mobile navigation tools for pedestrians. However, the vast quantity of accessible navigational and environmental information aggravates effective information extraction and necessitates tailoring wayfi nding instructions and additional location based information to individual needs. In order to facilitate the provision of customised information and to avoid redundant information, we currently determine a pedestrian typology using a multi-method approach considering motion behaviour as well as underlying preferences and individual attitudes. We developed a methodological set-up including qualitative-interpretative and quantitative-statistical data, which will lead to the determination of a typology of lifestyle-based pedestrian mobility styles. In this contribution we present results from the fi rst of two consecutive empirical phases based on datasets of over 100 trajectories observed by shadowing methods and 130 interviews; furthermore we highlight differences in the outcomes resulting from data collected by different empirical methods and in different investigation areas (indoor and outdoor).


international conference on intelligent transportation systems | 2012

Sitting, waiting, wishing: Waiting time perception in public transport

Alexandra Millonig; Marek Sleszynski; Michael Ulm

Waiting for public transport services is one of the most important factors deteriorating public transport customer satisfaction. Although there are several approaches for enhancing the waiting experience for passengers, little consolidated knowledge exists concerning the effects of particular offers under different circumstances such as site characteristics or group preferences. This contribution introduces an approach for measuring the influence of different waiting activities on the perception of waiting times. We analyzed the activities and waiting time perception of 1215 public transport passengers in three types of stations in order to explore the effect of particular entertainment offers on the ability to estimate the duration of waiting times. The results indicate strong influences of station characteristics as well as user characteristics on waiting activities and time perception.


Archive | 2010

A Multi-Method Approach to the Interpretation of Pedestrian Spatio-Temporal Behaviour

Alexandra Millonig; Georg Gartner

The development of mobile spatial-information technologies requires a profound understanding of pedestrian spatio-temporal behaviour. In a currently ongoing project we use several empirical methods following the concept of “across-method” triangulation to comprehensively study human spatial behaviour. In this contribution we will introduce a multi-method approach including a combination of localisation and tracking techniques (GPS, Bluetooth, unobtrusive observation) as well as enquiries concerning intentions, lifestyle attributes, socio-demographic characteristics, route quality preferences, and preferred way-finding strategies. The combination of qualitative-interpretative and quantitative-statistical data will lead to the determination of a typology of lifestyle-based pedestrian mobility styles, which can serve as a basis to customise navigational and environmental information to individual needs, and to create pedestrian interest profiles in ubiquitous environments. We present experimental results of the first of two consecutive empirical phases based on a data set containing of more than 100 trajectories of people observed by path following in an indoor and outdoor environment.


international conference on distributed, ambient, and pervasive interactions | 2016

Gamification and Social Dynamics: Insights from a Corporate Cycling Campaign

Matthias Wunsch; Agnis Stibe; Alexandra Millonig; Stefan Seer; Ryan C. C. Chin; Katja Schechtner

Cycling is an essential transport mode in a well-balanced urban transportation system. While most approaches for achieving an increase from today’s usually low levels of biking are focusing mainly on infrastructure measures and policies, this study presents the effects of the Biking Tourney, a bike commuting challenge between 14 companies aiming at motivating employees to commute by bike. This six-week study involved 239 participants using a socially influencing system for reporting commutes and watching the rankings. The frequency of bike commuting increased for 15 % of overall participants due to their participation. Within the subgroup of occasional bike commuters an even higher share of 30 % commuted by bike more frequently. Further analysis discusses multiple factors contributing to the engagement of employees in the tourney. As the results show the persuasiveness of the intervention, implications for a large-scale implementation are discussed.


international conference on intelligent transportation systems | 2010

Classifying trip characteristics for describing routine and non-routine trip patterns

Alexandra Millonig; Gudrun Maierbrugger; Eva Favry

Public transport companies need to exhaust the utilisation capacity of their services in the most efficient way. Therefore, especially during off-peak hours, it is necessary to attract more passengers by offering specific, customised services. As part of the scientific project NRT (“Non-Routine Trips”), we examine habits, preferences and interest profiles of lifestylebased user groups in order to identify key requirements for enhancing public transport services and motivating passengers to also use the services for non-regular journeys.

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Katja Schechtner

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Georg Gartner

Vienna University of Technology

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Matthias Wunsch

Austrian Institute of Technology

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Stefan Seer

Austrian Institute of Technology

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Agnis Stibe

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Ryan C. C. Chin

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Dietmar Bauer

Austrian Institute of Technology

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Gudrun Maierbrugger

Austrian Institute of Technology

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Bettina Mandl

Austrian Institute of Technology

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Eva Favry

Austrian Institute of Technology

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