Utilizing mobile phone-based floating population data to measure the spatial accessibility to public transit

Document Type

Journal Article

Publication Date

2018

Subject Area

mode - bus, place - asia, planning - methods, technology - passenger information

Keywords

Spatial accessibility, Public transit, Public transportation, Floating catchment area, Floating population

Abstract

Spatial accessibility to public transit changes with population shifts during the day in association with time-varying transit supply levels. In this study, we propose a strategy for the utilization of mobile phone-based floating population data to measure the accessibility to public transit. We used the Huff model-based, floating catchment area method to measure the time-varying accessibility in Seoul, Korea, during rush-hours and late night hours. We compared the floating population-based access measures with the census data for these hours. Our results imply that utilization of the phone-based floating population data can provide reliable and fine-grained results in cases of evening rush hour and late night hours. Therefore, it can replace static census data typically used for the estimation of the accessibility index.

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Permission to publish the abstract has been given by Elsevier, copyright remains with them.

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