Inferring the purposes of taxi trips using GPS and POI data considering the destination context

Semantic enrichment of the taxi trajectories with trip purposes has been a moderately discussed subject area in travel behavior analysis. Two data sources, (a) Point of Interest (POI) and (b) GPS records of taxi trips, are often combined in predicting the trip purposes of taxi passengers. Three methods (rule-based, probabilistic, and machine learning) have been emerged to infer the trip purpose us...