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 …

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 …

Understanding urban traffic-flow characteristics: a rethinking of betweenness centrality

S Gao, Y Wang, Y Gao, Y Liu - Environment and Planning B …, 2013 - journals.sagepub.com
In this study we estimate urban traffic flow using GPS-enabled taxi trajectory data in
Qingdao, China, and examine the capability of the betweenness centrality of the street …

The significance of digital data systems for smart city policy

K Kourtit, P Nijkamp, J Steenbruggen - Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, 2017 - Elsevier
Our planet is gradually moving towards an urbanized world. Modern urban agglomerations
tend to turn nowadays into advanced information hubs supporting a smart management of …

Reconstruction of human movement trajectories from large-scale low-frequency mobile phone data

M Li, S Gao, F Lu, H Zhang - Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 2019 - Elsevier
Understanding human mobility is significant in many fields, such as geography,
transportation, and sociology. Due to the wide spatiotemporal coverage and low operational …

Mobile phones in a traffic flow: A geographical perspective to evening rush hour traffic analysis using call detail records

O Järv, R Ahas, E Saluveer, B Derudder, F Witlox - PloS one, 2012 - journals.plos.org
Excessive land use and suburbanisation around densely populated urban areas has gone
hand in hand with a growth in overall transportation and discussions about causality of traffic …

[HTML][HTML] When spatial interpolation matters: Seeking an appropriate data transformation from the mobile network for population estimates

M Šveda, P Hurbánek, MS Madajová, K Rosina… - … Environment and Urban …, 2024 - Elsevier
Analyses utilizing mobile positioning data rarely provide an exact method of data
transformation to target spatial units. A common reason is likely the fact that researchers …

Assessing the impact of transportation diversity on postdisaster intraurban mobility

A Rahimi-Golkhandan, MJ Garvin… - Journal of Management in …, 2021 - ascelibrary.org
Transportation infrastructure enables mobility in urban communities and impacts the
functionality of other infrastructure and services. Natural hazards can cause failures in a …

Daily commuting in the Bratislava metropolitan area: case study with mobile positioning data

M Šveda, P Barlík - Papers in Applied Geography, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Suburban development in the metropolitan area of Bratislava (Slovakia) led to an
unprecedented redistribution of population. As the majority of suburbanized families are car …

The evolutionary interaction between taxi-sharing behaviours and social networks

Y Wang, R Kutadinata, S Winter - … Research Part A: Policy and Practice, 2019 - Elsevier
Mobility services increasingly consider the sharing of vehicles to reduce resource use and
congestion. People are, however, reluctant to sharing vehicles with strangers. Therefore, this …