MES Candidate, Planning
![Andrea Mikkila](/waterloo-public-transportation-initiative/sites/default/files/uploads/images/andrea_mikkila.jpg)
Andrea is being co-supervised by Jeff Casello and Robert Feick.
Project
Establishing baseline tour behaviour through smartphone data collection in the Region of Waterloo
Using a smartphone application developed by other University of Waterloo students, passive GPS data will be collected from voluntary participants' phones. The app will collect anonymous participant IDs, latitude, longitude, altitude, acceleration and time stamps of all GPS points. These data will be processed using an automated Python script to determine the number of stops a person makes throughout a tour within the Region. These data may provide a baseline for future additional research and the correlation between land use and pedestrian behaviour.