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<p>Urban planners have been long interested in understanding how urban structure and activities are mutually influenced. What are the forces that lead to the current patens of road network and what is the influence of the latter's structure on urban activities? Network centrality measures have been traditionally utilized to uncover the structural properties of urban street networks. In this paper we are interested in examining the correlation between the centrality of street network and the intensity of human movement in urban areas. We focus on two cities and we utilize a dataset of geo-tagged tweets that can form a proxy to urban mobility and the corresponding street networks as obtained from OpenStreeMap. Our results indicate that different centrality metrics have different levels of correlations with the intensity of human movement. Furthermore, the strength of the correlation varies in the two cities examined.</p>
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Urban planners have been long interested in understanding how urban structure and activities are mutually influenced. What are the forces that lead to the current patens of road network and what is the influence of the latter's structure on urban activities? Network centrality measures have been traditionally utilized to uncover the structural properties of urban street networks. In this paper we are interested in examining the correlation between the centrality of street network and the intensity of human movement in urban areas. We focus on two cities and we utilize a dataset of geo-tagged tweets that can form a proxy to urban mobility and the corresponding street networks as obtained from OpenStreeMap. Our results indicate that different centrality metrics have different levels of correlations with the intensity of human movement. Furthermore, the strength of the correlation varies in the two cities examined.

Uncovering Correlations Between Urban Road Network Centrality and Human Mobility

Department of Railway Transportation Control

International Journal of Advanced Network, Monitoring and Controls

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{"article-title":"Uncovering Correlations Between Urban Road Network Centrality and Human Mobility"}

Urban planners have been long interested in understanding how urban structure and activities are mutually influenced. What are the forces that lead to the...

Uncovering Correlations Between Urban Road Network Centrality and Human Mobility

Published Online: May 21, 2023

Page range: 99 - 105

DOI: https://doi.org/10.21307/ijanmc-2021-039

Keywords
Human Mobility, Urban Street Network, Network Centrality, OpenStreetMap

© 2021 Yury Halavachou et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Uncovering Correlations Between Urban Road Network Centrality and Human Mobility

Published Online: May 21, 2023

Page range: 99 - 105

DOI: https://doi.org/10.21307/ijanmc-2021-039

KeywordsHuman Mobility, Urban Street Network, Network Centrality, OpenStreetMap

© 2021 Yury Halavachou et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Keywords
Human Mobility, Urban Street Network, Network Centrality, OpenStreetMap