Malleson, N orcid.org/0000-0002-6977-0615, Vanky, A, Hashemian, B et al. (4 more authors) (2018) The characteristics of asymmetric pedestrian behavior: A preliminary study using passive smartphone location data. Transactions in GIS, 22 (2). pp. 616-634. ISSN 1361-1682
Abstract
Understanding the movements of people is essential for the design and management of urban areas. This article presents a novel approach to understanding the asymmetry in route choice (i.e., the degree to which people choose different walking routes for their outbound and return journeys). The study utilizes a large volume of traces of individual routes, captured using a smartphone application. The routes are aggregated to a regular grid, and matrix statistics are developed to estimate the aggregate degree of route asymmetry for different types of route (shortest, longest, weekday, weekend, etc.). The results suggest that people change their route approximately 15% of the time. Although this varied little when observing trips made at the weekend or on a weekday, people taking journeys that deviated substantially from the shortest possible path were 6 percentage points less likely to change their routes than those taking journeys that were closest to the shortest path (14 and 20% asymmetry, respectively). The absolute length also impacted on the asymmetry of journeys, but not as substantially. This result is important because, for the first time, it reports a correlation between deviation from shortest route and aggregate pedestrian choice.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | (c) 2018, The Authors. Transactions in GIS published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License [https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/], which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Environment (Leeds) > School of Geography (Leeds) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number ESRC ES/L009900/1 ESRC ES/L011891/1 |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 30 Apr 2018 11:11 |
Last Modified: | 30 Apr 2018 11:13 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Wiley |
Identification Number: | 10.1111/tgis.12336 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:130230 |