基于位置感知设备的人类移动研究综述

每个人在地理空间内的移动看似随机而没有规律,然而一个较大规模人群的移动却隐藏着特定的模式。为了研究某些地理问题,如交通、疾病传播等,可以从个体行为出发,在地理信息系统的支持下,发现人类移动模式,并构筑基于个体的模拟模型,从而建立微观和宏观之间的桥梁,并支持相应的决策过程。信息通讯技术的发展,一方面改变了人们的空间行为模式,另一方面使得基于位置感知设备获取海量人类移动数据成为可能。近年来,上述研究一直是地理信息科学及相关领域的热点,该文对此进行了总结和评述。

A Review of Human Mobility Research Based on Location Aware Devices

Understanding human mobility patterns is valuable in many geographical applications,such as transportation planning and epidemic disease controlling.By integrating individual-based models and geographical information systems,and adopting identified human mobility patterns,the geographical dynamics can be investigated and simulated so that scientific decisions can be made.With the development of information and communication technologies,human mobility patterns have been significantly changed.Meanwhile,widely-applied location aware devices,including mobile phones and GPS receivers,provide great convenience for collecting large volume individuals′ trajectories.Recently,it is a hot topic to analyze and interpret human mobility patterns using such trajectory data in the fields of time geography and geographical information science.In this paper,recent research in the related fields was reviewed.