Abstract
Understanding human mobility patterns—how people move in their everyday lives—is an interdisciplinary research field. It is a question with roots back to the 19th century that has been dramatically revitalized with the recent increase in data availability. Models of human mobility often take the population distribution as a starting point. Another, sometimes more accurate, data source is land-use maps. In this paper, we discuss how the intra-city movement patterns, and consequently population distribution, can be predicted from such data sources. As a link between land use and mobility, we show that the purposes of people’s trips are strongly correlated with the land use of the trip’s origin and destination. We calibrate, validate and discuss our model using survey data.
Highlights
Understanding human mobility patterns in urban areas is important in many fields—from city planning, via sociology and geography to complex systems science
Our first analysis aims at relating land use and human activity
We have investigated how intra-city travel is related to the land use of a city
Summary
Understanding human mobility patterns in urban areas is important in many fields—from city planning, via sociology and geography to complex systems science. Mobility is one of the aspects of human behavior that could be described as a law—albeit a statistical one [2]. This goal dates back to Ravenstein’s 1885 paper [3] of a slightly different problem—how people move their home. The abovementioned mobility models focus on cities or countries that have a high mobile phone, GPS tracking or Internet use. These are, usually politically stable, mature and developed regions. In principle, it should be rather easy to keep the same standard across different societies [14]
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