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Urban Spatial Structure and Population Flow analysis in Hubei Province：based on position data and online traffic data

Population flow,Traffic flow,HuBei Province,Big data,Urban spatial structure

全体主题 > Big data in Urban Planning and Management

Intercity population flow is an important reflection of regional structure, which is gaining growing attention with the support of big data analytics: easy access to transportation data and location-based services data grants better insights into the potential attraction between cities and the actual movement of people. This study investigates the spatial structure of Hubei by coupling both aspects. Tencent positioning data is used to identify migrations instead of statistical population data; and AMAP road traffic data is introduced in building an improved gravity model where the distance between cities is defined in accordance with actual cost of travel. Results show that population flow and gravity strength is generally coherent despite spatial heterogenicity in the degree of coherence; moreover, temporal comparison confirms that population flow respond to high-speed transportation infrastructure, providing basis for pertinent measures in optimizing regional spatial structure.