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Mobile Phone Data in Reading Mobility Practices

verfasst von : Fabio Manfredini, Paola Pucci, Paolo Tagliolato

Erschienen in: Understanding Mobilities for Designing Contemporary Cities

Verlag: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

This chapter explores the potential of mobile phone data in reading urban practices and rhythms of usage of the contemporary city. Presenting the results of two researches, promoted by Telecom Italia and carried out by the authors, the chapter will show how new maps based on mobile phone data analysis can represent spatialized urban practices, providing new insights into space-time patterns of mobility practices. Mobile traffic data employed in the analysis of complex temporal and spatial patterns (Erlang, and origin–destination matrices) were treated as the effect of individual behaviours and habits, offering information about the features of usage of urban spaces that vary over time. Thanks to the processing of mobile phone data, it was possible to describe the intensity of use of the city (during the day, weekdays/holidays, seasons), linking them to the differences in the distribution of urban activities at different hours, day and weeks, as a useful tool to define urban policies regarding the supply of services; managing large and special events (inflow, outflow, monitoring), also estimating the mobility demand and the spatial-temporal variation in population density; describing time-dependent phenomena that are missing from traditional analysis; as well as tracing ‘fuzzy boundaries’ as perimeters of practices, as a tool for supporting and increasing the efficiency of urban policies and mobility services.

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Fußnoten
1
Two research projects were financed by Telecom Italia during the year 2009 and 2011: “Utilizzazione dei dati di telefonia mobile per indagini territoriali” and “Stima di Matrici O/D con dati di traffico telefonico”.
 
2
In each map, we added infrastructures (railways and main roads), railway stations, Linate city airport, main shopping centres and the fair trade centre.
 
3
For more extensive discussion, we refer the interested reader to Pucci et al. (2015).
 
4
My translation of “Certe tracce possiedono un valore individualizzante […] ossia segnalano la presenza di una persona che ne è all’origine e che vi è implicata” (Ferraris 2009, p. 336).
 
5
See Chap. 3 in Pucci et al. (2015).
 
6
In this perspective, the work of Gonzales, Hidalgo and Barabasi, which examined the tracked positions of individuals, demonstrated that “human trajectories show a high degree of temporal and spatial regularity” (Gonzalez et al. 2008).
 
7
This means a process of ‘shaping’ between shifting political boundaries, new geographies and structures of power, human landscapes, local/transnational communities and their everyday border experiences.
 
8
My translation from “Tous les gouvernements territoriaux vivent sous un régime permanent de dissociation entre les citoyens, les habitants et les usagers de la ville” (Estèbe 2008, p. 17).
 
9
According to Brambilla (2014), Borderscape studies focus on the conceptual evolution of borders offering new perspectives to dealing with processes of ‘shaping’ between shifting political boundaries, new geographies and structures of power, human landscapes, local/transnational communities and their everyday border experiences.
 
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Metadaten
Titel
Mobile Phone Data in Reading Mobility Practices
verfasst von
Fabio Manfredini
Paola Pucci
Paolo Tagliolato
Copyright-Jahr
2016
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-22578-4_14