@inproceedings{1b95fdba20c14ae4bfa1f6e37122bc80,
title = "Mobilitymirror: Bias-adjusted transportation datasets",
abstract = "We describe customized synthetic datasets for publishing mobility data. Companies are providing new transportation modalities, and their data is of high value for integrative transportation research, policy enforcement, and public accountability. However, these companies are disincentivized from sharing data not only to protect the privacy of individuals (drivers and/or passengers), but also to protect their own competitive advantage. Moreover, demographic biases arising from how the services are delivered may be amplified if released data is used in other contexts. We describe a model and algorithm for releasing origin-destination histograms that removes selected biases in the data using causality-based methods. We compute the origin-destination histogram of the original dataset then adjust the counts to remove undesirable causal relationships that can lead to discrimination or violate contractual obligations with data owners. We evaluate the utility of the algorithm on real data from a dockless bike share program in Seattle and taxi data in New York, and show that these adjusted transportation datasets can retain utility while removing bias in the underlying data.",
author = "Luke Rodriguez and Babak Salimi and Haoyue Ping and Julia Stoyanovich and Bill Howe",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2019, Springer Nature Switzerland AG.; 1st Workshop on Big Social Data and Urban Computing, BiDU 2018 ; Conference date: 31-08-2018 Through 31-08-2018",
year = "2019",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-030-11238-7_2",
language = "English (US)",
isbn = "9783030112370",
series = "Communications in Computer and Information Science",
publisher = "Springer Verlag",
pages = "18--39",
editor = "Jonice Oliveira and Farias, {Claudio M.} and Esther Pacitti and Giancarlo Fortino",
booktitle = "Big Social Data and Urban Computing - 1st Workshop, BiDU 2018, Revised Selected Papers",
}