Pintér, G.; Felde, I. Commuting Analysis of the Budapest Metropolitan Area Using Mobile Network Data. ISPRS Int. J. Geo-Inf.2022, 11, 466.
Pintér, G.; Felde, I. Commuting Analysis of the Budapest Metropolitan Area Using Mobile Network Data. ISPRS Int. J. Geo-Inf. 2022, 11, 466.
Pintér, G.; Felde, I. Commuting Analysis of the Budapest Metropolitan Area Using Mobile Network Data. ISPRS Int. J. Geo-Inf.2022, 11, 466.
Pintér, G.; Felde, I. Commuting Analysis of the Budapest Metropolitan Area Using Mobile Network Data. ISPRS Int. J. Geo-Inf. 2022, 11, 466.
Abstract
The analysis of the human movement patterns based on the mobile network data makes it possible to examine a very large population cost-effectively, and led to several discoveries about human dynamics. However, the application of this data source is still not common practice.
The goal of this study was to analyze the commuting tendencies of the Budapest Metropolitan Area using mobile network data and propose an automatized alternative to the current, questionnaire-based method. Commuting is predominantly analyzed by the census, but that is performed only once in a decade in Hungary.
To analyze commuting, the home and the work locations of the subscribers are determined based on their appearances during and outside the working hours. The home locations were compared to census data at a settlement level. Then, the settlement and district level commuting tendencies were identified and compared to the findings of census-based sociological studies.
It has been found that commuting analysis based on mobile network data strongly correlates with the census-based findings, even though home and work locations have been estimated by statistical methods.
All the examined aspects, including commuting from sectors of the agglomeration to the districts of Budapest and demographic distribution of the commuters, show that mobile network data can be an automatized, fast, cost-effective, and relatively accurate way of commuting analysis, that could provide a powerful tool to the sociologists interested in commuting.
Keywords
mobile network data; call detail records; data analysis; human mobility; urban mobility; social sensing; urban geography; urban sociology; commuting; sustainability
Subject
Social Sciences, Geography, Planning and Development
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