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

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  • Miguel G Silva
  • Sara C Madeira
  • Rui Henriques

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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.

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  • Miguel G Silva & Sara C Madeira & Rui Henriques, 2024. "Actionable descriptors of spatiotemporal urban dynamics from large-scale mobile data: A case study in Lisbon city," Environment and Planning B, , vol. 51(8), pages 1725-1741, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:envirb:v:51:y:2024:i:8:p:1725-1741
    DOI: 10.1177/23998083231219048
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