Investigation of travel and activity patterns using location-based social network data: A case study of active mobile social media users

ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 1512-1529

  Sun, Yeran ^a   Li, Ming ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Activity space; Gender difference; GIS; Location based social network; Travel behavior; Volunteered geographic information

Indexed keywords

EID: 84948974525     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22209964     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/ijgi4031512     Document Type: Review

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