Mobility Pattern of Taxi Passengers at Intra-Urban Scale: Empirical Study of Three Cities

Xu Mengqiao (), Zhang Ling (), Li Wen () and Xia Haoxiang ()
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Xu Mengqiao: Faculty of Management and Economics, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian116024, China
Zhang Ling: Faculty of Management and Economics, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian116024, China
Li Wen: Faculty of Management and Economics, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian116024, China
Xia Haoxiang: Faculty of Management and Economics, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian116024, China

Journal of Systems Science and Information, 2017, vol. 5, issue 6, 537-555

Abstract: The study of human mobility patterns is of both theoretical and practical values in many aspects. For long-distance travel, a few research endeavors have shown that the displacements of human travels follow a power-law distribution. However, controversies remain regarding the issue of the scaling laws of human mobility in intra-urban areas. In this work, we focus on the mobility pattern of taxi passengers by examining five datasets of three metropolitans. Through statistical analysis, we find that the lognormal distribution with a power-law tail can best approximate both the displacement and the duration time of taxi trips in all the examined cities. The universality of the scaling laws of human mobility is subsequently discussed, in view of the analysis of the data. The consistency of the statistical properties of the selected datasets that cover different cities and study periods suggests that, the identified pattern of taxi-based intra-urban travels seems to be ubiquitous over cities and time periods.

Keywords: human mobility pattern; taxi travel; displacements; duration time (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.21078/JSSI-2017-537-19

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