Reverse traffic flows: Visualizing a new trend in Spring Festival travel rush in China

Zhenxuan Yin, Linxin Ouyang and Wang De
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Zhenxuan Yin: Shanghai Tongji Urban Planning and Design Institute Co., Ltd., China
Linxin Ouyang: Tongji University, China

Environment and Planning A, 2020, vol. 52, issue 2, 251-254

Abstract: Abstract Traditionally, Chinese would go back to their hometowns to reunite with their families during the Chinese Lunar New Year. In the last 30 years, due to the uneven development of regions, Spring Festival travel rush were mainly from large cities to small cities or rural areas. However, in recent years, an increasing number of migrants prefer to stay in larger cities and have their families visit them during the Spring Festival. To map the reverse migrations and explore their influence, we collected and processed data on passenger travel in 2017 and 2018 from Tencent Location Big Data and GDP in 2017 at the prefectural level. The visuals based on the data indicate that the volume of reverse migration was mainly concentrated in regional centers, with great variation across cities. Besides, with increasing reverse traffic flows, large cities are shifting from being empty to vibrant cities during the Spring Festival, while small cities and rural areas are losing their vibrancy.

Keywords: Reverse traffic flows; Spring Festival travel rush; open and big data (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1177/0308518X19860537

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