Patent ID: 8406770

Claim:
A method for providing an origination-destination matrix comprising the steps of: identifying a trip initiation event for a trip associated with a mobile station; determining a transportation analysis zone associated with the trip initiation event; identifying a plurality of location records associated with the trip for the mobile station, wherein the location records comprise locations of the mobile station after the trip initiation event; identifying a destination point associated with the trip, wherein the destination point comprises one of the plurality of location records and the location record represents the final location of the mobile station; determining the transportation analysis zone associated with the destination point; and recording the origination and destination of the trip in the origination-destination matrix, the origination being the transportation analysis zone associated with the trip initiation event and destination being the transportation analysis zone associated with the destination point, wherein the origination-destination matrix comprises at least two dimensions wherein a first dimension comprises a plurality of transportation analysis zones within a geographic area associated with an origin of a trip and the second dimension comprises a plurality of transportation analysis zones within a geographic area associated with a destination of a trip.