Understanding urban traffic-flow characteristics: A rethinking of betweenness centrality

Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 135-153

  Gao, Song ^a   Wang, Yaoli ^a   Gao, Yong ^a   Liu, Yu ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Betweenness centrality; Distance decay; Mobile phone data; Spatial heterogeneity; Taxi trajectory; Traffic flow

Indexed keywords

GPS; HETEROGENEITY; HUMAN ACTIVITY; MOBILE COMMUNICATION; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TAXI TRANSPORT; TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT; URBAN TRANSPORT;

CHINA; QINGDAO; SHANDONG;

EID: 84873507283     PISSN: 02658135     EISSN: 14723417     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/b38141     Document Type: Article

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