Actionable descriptors of spatiotemporal urban dynamics from large-scale mobile data: A case study in Lisbon city

Miguel G Silva, Sara C Madeira and Rui Henriques

Environment and Planning B, 2024, vol. 51, issue 8, 1725-1741

Abstract: Mobile phones share location records, offering the opportunity to monitor and understand emerging population dynamics in urban centers. With the aim of supporting urban planning, this study introduces a scalable methodology grounded on extracting and organizing spatiotemporal statistics from decomposed population density data. The proposed methodology serves three major purposes: (i) assess the predictability of spatiotemporal citizen density patterns; (ii) detect emerging spatiotemporal trends in population density; and (iii) uncover multi-level seasonality patterns with guarantees of actionability. Additionally, it makes available an open-access tool for deploying the proposed methodology and analyzing mobile phone network data with easy-to-use spatiotemporal visualization and navigation facilities. The results obtained from real-world, large-scale mobile data in Lisbon, Portugal, demonstrate the effectiveness and validity of the proposed methodology in extracting actionable statistics in linear time to guide both tactic and strategic urban planning.

Keywords: Mobile phone data; spatiotemporal data analysis; urban planning; time series decomposition; population density; emerging patterns (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1177/23998083231219048

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