Trip Distribution of Urban Worker at Sudirman Station

Abstract

Most researchers using questionnaire survey in determining the trip distribution pattern in general especially to find out information on origin and destination. In Indonesia, a transportation survey is conducted by the Ministry of Transportation every five years, which mean the data will go outdated not long after it is published. There is a new way to get updated data by utilizing new data sources that are obtained through communication and information technologies such as geolocation feature on Twitter. This study tried to infer the trip distribution of urban worker at Sudirman Station using survey and geolocation feature on Twitter. The results of this study indicated that the comparison of trip distribution which was obtained through the survey showed more varied results than new data sources such as social media Twitter. The variation of the trip distribution was assessed by the differences of precise locational information which was obtained by both approaches. Both approaches could be used to describe the trip distribution is based on the structure of the city. This study also contributed to explore the usage of geolocation feature for estimating the trip distribution of urban worker at urban transit area by using additional phase during the generating twitter data process.