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Using crowdsourced fitness tracker data to model the relationship between slope and travel rates

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Campbell, Michael J., Dennison, Philip E., Butler, Bret W., Page, Wesley G.·2019·Applied Geography

Abstract

One of the critical factors affecting travel rates while hiking, jogging, or running along a trail is the slope of the underlying terrain. Models for predicting this effect have been used in a wide variety of scientific and applied contexts, including recreation planning, search and rescue, wildland firefighter safety, social network analysis, and recreating historical human movement patterns. Despite their wide use, these models are based on datasets with very small sample sizes that were collected without using instantaneous measures of travel rate and assume symmetrical effects about the slope of maximum travel rate. These models also typically resulted in a single mathematical function, ignoring the significant variability that can occur between a fast and a slow individual, or between walking and running travel rates. In this study we modeled travel rates using a database of GPS tracks from 29,928 individuals representing 421,247 individual hikes, jogs, and runs on trails in and around Salt Lake City, Utah for an entire year between July 1, 2016 and June 30, 2017. Three widely-used probability distribution functions (Laplace, Gauss, and Lorentz) were used to predict travel rates based on terrain slope along segments of trails with uniform slopes. To account for the variability in travel rates between fast and slow movement, a series of travel rate models were generated to predict travel rate percentiles, ranging from the 1st to the 99th, thus providing a flexible basis f…

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  • The function form of Eq. (1) is a suitable basis for modeling travel rates.

    “Based on our previous work5,8,39 and preliminary testing, we identified the function form of Eq. (1) as a suitable basis for modeling.”
  • Both [8] and [16] looked solely at the effect of walking slope on speed and did not explore additional variables.

    “Finally, although these studies had the benefit of using large sample sizes, they both looked solely at the effect of the walking slope on speed, and did not explore additional variables.”
  • Recent work [8,16] explored data-driven walking speed modelling, but crowdsourced data collection was not controlled, so the data could not be assumed to consist wholly of walking or hiking tracks.

    “This has been explored in recent work [8, 16], however the crowdsourced nature of these studies meant that data collection was not controlled, and thus that the data could not be assumed to consist wholly of walking or hiking tracks.”
  • In [16], data from hikes, jogs and runs was processed together, resulting in a very wide range of movement speed estimates.

    “In [16], data from hikes, jogs and runs was processed together, resulting in a very wide range of movement speed estimates.”
  • Campbell et al.'s slope-travel rate function was used as the basis of predicting egress in the Escape Route Index.

    “Campbell et al. [29]'s slope-travel rate function was used as the basis of predicting egress in the Escape Route Index [24].”

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Authors
Campbell, M. J., Dennison, P. E., Butler, B. W., & Page, W. G.
Affiliations
  • Fort Lewis College (US)
  • Rocky Mountain Research Station (US)
Corresponding author
Campbell, Michael J.
Venue
Applied Geography
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2019-05
Volume
106
Pages
93-107
ISSN
0143-6228 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2926860153
Cited by
87
References
42
Citations by year
2026: 16 · 2025: 11 · 2024: 17 · 2023: 15 · 2022: 15 · 2021: 4 · 2020: 5 · 2019: 4
FWCI
5.24
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
Applied Geography (acceptedVersion)
Funders
  • USDA Forest Service National Fire Plan
  • National Wildfire Coordinating Group (15CR11221637105, 18JV11221637153, 18JV11221637154)
  • National Science Foundation (DEB-1714972)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Transportation › Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis
  • Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Tourism, Leisure and Hospitality Management › Recreation, Leisure, Wilderness Management
  • Social Sciences › Safety Research › Evacuation and Crowd Dynamics
Keywords
terrain slope, hiking, running, jogging, GPS tracks, Laplace distribution, normal distribution, search and rescue

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