Planning Urban Internal Transport Based on Cell Phone Data

Abstract

Based on cell phone data, mining residents’ travel characteristics and regional traffic connection characteristics has become an important technology for urban road traffic planning research. Based on cell phone data extracted from Wuxue City, this paper proposes an operability method for mining regional traffic contact intensity information based on cell phone data and an urban road network evaluation method. We analyze the travel characteristics of residents and the current situation of traffic connections between towns by constructing a planning road model of Wuxue city and find that the traffic connection of Wuxue city shows a spatial development pattern with Wuxue street as the intersection, one horizontal and one vertical, and the traffic accessibility gradually decreases from south to north. We analyze the spatial characteristics and problems of the planning of the road network in Wuxue and propose a modification plan. We verify the reasonableness of the modified plan by calculating traffic accessibility and road density. The research provides a new way to obtain spatio-temporal information about passenger flows by applying cell phone data to urban road planning.

Keywords

• mobile phone signaling data
• intensity of urban transport links
• road planning