Data from mobile phone operators: A tool for smarter cities?

J Steenbruggen, E Tranos, P Nijkamp - Telecommunications Policy, 2015 - Elsevier
The use of mobile phone data provides new spatio-temporal tools for improving urban
planning, and for reducing inefficiencies in present-day urban systems. Data from mobile …

Potential path areas and activity spaces in application: A review

Z Patterson, S Farber - Transport Reviews, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
The potential path area (PPA) and activity space (AS) concepts play a central role in the
substantial amount of applied research focusing on the quantitative analysis and description …

Human mobility and socioeconomic status: Analysis of Singapore and Boston

Y Xu, A Belyi, I Bojic, C Ratti - Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 2018 - Elsevier
Recently, some studies have shown that human movement patterns are strongly associated
with regional socioeconomic indicators such as per capita income and poverty rate. These …

Using mobile positioning data to model locations meaningful to users of mobile phones

R Ahas, S Silm, O Järv, E Saluveer… - Journal of urban …, 2010 - Taylor & Francis
The article introduces a model for the location of meaningful places for mobile telephone
users, such as home and work anchor points, using passive mobile positioning data …

Activity spaces: measures of social exclusion?

S Schönfelder, KW Axhausen - Transport policy, 2003 - Elsevier
The paper provides a first investigation of the suitability of different measures of activity
space size to identify persons at risk of social exclusion. This would be a new departure for …

An interactive mapping tool to assess individual mobility patterns in neighborhood studies

B Chaix, Y Kestens, C Perchoux, N Karusisi… - American journal of …, 2012 - Elsevier
As their most critical limitation, neighborhood and health studies published to date have not
taken into account nonresidential activity places where individuals travel in their daily lives …

Understanding monthly variability in human activity spaces: A twelve-month study using mobile phone call detail records

O Järv, R Ahas, F Witlox - Transportation Research Part C: Emerging …, 2014 - Elsevier
Human activity-travel behaviour (ATB) is a complex pattern of paths and activities in space
and time. Studies indicate that ATB is the construction of daily habitual, weekly, monthly and …

Travel behaviour in Dutch monocentric and policentric urban systems

T Schwanen, FM Dieleman, M Dijst - Journal of transport geography, 2001 - Elsevier
In this paper, we analyse how monocentric and policentric urban structures affect modal
choice and travel distances for different travel purposes in the Netherlands. The analysis is …

Daily rhythms of suburban commuters' movements in the Tallinn metropolitan area: Case study with mobile positioning data

R Ahas, A Aasa, S Silm, M Tiru - Transportation Research Part C: Emerging …, 2010 - Elsevier
The objective of this study is to analyse the diurnal rhythms of city life and its spatial
differences in Tallinn, using mobile telephone positioning data. The positioning experiment …

Understanding aggregate human mobility patterns using passive mobile phone location data: A home-based approach

Y Xu, SL Shaw, Z Zhao, L Yin, Z Fang, Q Li - Transportation, 2015 - Springer
Advancements of information, communication and location-aware technologies have made
collections of various passively generated datasets possible. These datasets provide new …