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Discovering the urban pattern through human mobility and virtual space

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: Citizens' activities on social media reflect their movements, which lends itself to capturing human mobility and can take explanatory sequential research in this area a big step forward. This research investigates the triangular pattern that emerges from the 3 phase sides of the human mobility study area. The main problem is that the pattern of human mobility in the world's cities is not properly recognized. To answer the question “What is the pattern of human mobility in the city of Tehran based on the triangular model?”, human mobility is divided into 4 categories: Job, Education, Shopping, and Leisure, which are the most demanded in the city. Therefore, the sides of the triangular human mobility pattern are presented in 3 socio-spatial, socio-temporal, and temporal-spatial sections. With the identification of human mobility in the above 4 categories, from case to case and as a simple experiment that can be conducted in the cities around the world the above 4 categories were separated and identified as triangles of human mobility in urban space. In this analysis, it was found that the relationships between shopping, education, and leisure are close and interrelated, and the activities of job, education, and shopping are also interrelated.

Source: Journal of Urban Management

DOI: 10.1016/j.jum.2025.01.004

Author: Ehsan Dorostkar

Institution: University of Tehran

Language: English

Topic: Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis

Subfield: Transportation

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Sustainable cities and communities

Open Access status: gold

Estimated APC paid: $1,200