Journal of Geo-information Science, Volume. 22, Issue 1, 100(2020)
The spatial distribution characteristics and activity patterns of urban populations play essential roles in studies of spatial isolation, optimizing urban resource allocation, and so on. Because of the sensitivity of population activity data and socioeconomic data, previous studies focus mostly on the macro level. They have difficulties in dividing the socioeconomic status and quantitatively analyzing human mobility regulation. In recent years, geospatial big data, such as the mobile app data, provide us with a rare opportunity to analyze the human activity of urban internal problems. In this study, we constructed a fine-grained activity portrait of mobile phone users based on the mobile phone signaling data of Shenzhen residents, and coupled the high-resolution Shenzhen house price distribution data to achieve accurate division of people by their economic levels. Then, we extracted six activity indicators, which include the number of active locations, activity entropy, moment of inertia, travel time, travel distance, and travel speed, to quantify the spatial distribution and analyze the activity patterns of people at different economic levels. The results reveal the correlation between mobility and socioeconomic status. The distribution of people's activities at different economic levels in Shenzhen was related to the economic development of each administrative region. The results also demonstrated that three activity indicators (moment of inertia, travel distance, travel speed) were positively related to the economic level. Residents across different socioeconomic classes exhibited different travel patterns. Likely because the rich people live in the southwest of Shenzhen, but their work locations have more self-selectivity. This leads to the distribution of home and work locations in different administrative districts and the home-work distance of high-economic people are larger than others. For the other three activity indicators (number of active locations, activity entropy, travel time) that reflect the similar pattern of activity between different socioeconomic status, we found that people were mainly concentrated in living and working locations on weekdays. These locations share activities on weekdays for people at different socioeconomic levels. The socioeconomic status does not affect the number of daily activities nor the scheduling of activities. This study provides necessary data and policy guidance for government and urban planners.
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Qingfeng GUAN, Shuliang REN, Yao YAO, Xun LIANG, Jianfeng ZHOU, Zehao YUAN, Liangyang DAI.
Received: Jul. 29, 2019
Accepted: --
Published Online: Sep. 16, 2020
The Author Email: YAO Yao (yaoy@cug.edu.cn)