Long commutes and transport inequity in China's growing megacity: New evidence from Beijing using mobile phone data
Abstract
Some 1.80 million regular commuters were identified from 14.71 million mobile phone users over a one-month period. Most of the long-time commuters are male (66 percent). Young people (under 35 years old) dominated long-time commuters (61.4 percent) rather than middle-aged people. The long-time commuters' homes were mainly in the inner suburban area. The city centre has a high percentage of older long-time commuters.
- Publication:
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Travel Behaviour and Society
- Pub Date:
- July 2020
- DOI:
- 10.1016/j.tbs.2020.04.007
- Bibcode:
- 2020TBSoc..20..248Z
- Keywords:
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- Long commutes;
- Big data analytics;
- Transport inequity;
- Mobile phone data;
- Megacity;
- Beijing