Analysis of Public Transportation Travel Characteristics of the Elderly based on IC Card Big Data-Taking Qingdao as an Example

Abstract

Due to technical limit, it is difficult to get the public transportation orient-destination (OD) data in Qingdao. In despite of limited data, the paper introduced a new way to conduct bus passenger flow analysis, taking trip characteristics of the elderly in Qingdao as an example. Based on the analysis of IC card data in various time slots, cluster analysis of typical bus lines, combined with urban population data and person trip survey data, the paper analyzed the passenger bus travel characteristics of the elderly, especially their utilization of public transportation resources.