A GIS-based time-geographic approach of studying individual activities and interactions in a hybrid physical–virtual space

Shih-Lung Shaw and Hongbo Yu

Journal of Transport Geography, 2009, vol. 17, issue 2, 141-149

Abstract: Modern information and communication technologies (ICT) are changing human activity and travel patterns that could have significant implications to our everyday lives and the human organization of space. Time geography, which examines human activities under various constraints in a space–time context, provides a useful framework to analyze the complex spatio-temporal relationships among activities and interactions taking place in both physical and virtual spaces. However, virtual activities and interactions conducted via ICT have characteristics that cannot be properly represented and analyzed under the classical time-geographic framework. This paper extends classical time-geographic concepts to accommodate the needs of representing and analyzing all activities and interactions in a hybrid physical–virtual space. In addition, this paper presents a space–time geographic information system (GIS) design that is capable of organizing complex activity and interaction data as spatio-temporal processes in an integrated space–time environment. This space–time GIS design offers a useful analytical environment for researchers to study increasingly dynamic human activity and travel patterns in today’s society and their implications toward changing travel demand patterns from both spatial and temporal perspectives.

Keywords: Time geography; Hybrid physical–virtual space; Activity and travel pattern; Space–time GIS (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2008.11.012

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