Article ID: | iaor201526168 |
Volume: | 42 |
Issue: | 4 |
Start Page Number: | 625 |
End Page Number: | 646 |
Publication Date: | Jul 2015 |
Journal: | Transportation |
Authors: | Xu Yang, Li Qingquan, Shaw Shih-Lung, Zhao Ziliang, Yin Ling, Fang Zhixiang |
Keywords: | data collection, mobile telephones, Global Positioning System (GPS) |
Advancements of information, communication and location‐aware technologies have made collections of various passively generated datasets possible. These datasets provide new opportunities to understand human mobility patterns at a low cost and large scale. This study presents a home‐based approach to understanding human mobility patterns based on a large mobile phone location dataset from Shenzhen, China. First, we estimate each individual’s ‘home’ anchor point, and a modified standard distance (