floating car data

English

Noun

floating car data (uncountable)

1. (transport) A method to determine the traffic speed on a road network by monitoring the geolocations of drivers' mobile phones.
   • 2012, Martin Treiber, Traffic Flow Dynamics: Data, Models and Simulation, page 7:

     In this chapter, we discuss trajectory data and floating-car data, both providing space-time profiles of vehicles.

Synonyms

• FCD (abbreviation)
• floating cellular data

References

• floating car data on Wikipedia.Wikipedia