Relationships between mobile phone usage and activity-travel behavior: A review of the literature and an example

Yihong Wang*, Gonçalo Homem de Almeida Correia, Bart van Arem

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Abstract

Almost everyone has a mobile phone today. In addition to calls and text messages, people are utilizing mobile apps and websites to connect to the world and explore different content anytime and anywhere. The use of smart phones generates billions of records, including spatiotemporal trajectories, and various mobile phone usage details, such as call duration, and frequency of visiting a certain type of website. Most transportation researchers have only focused on spatiotemporal traces, which represent activity-travel behavior of users. However, it is worth making full use of smart phone data to study how mobile phone usage is related to activity-travel behavior. This chapter first reviews the existing literature on the relevant topics to demonstrate the lack of research on the relationship between mobile internet usage and activity-travel behavior. Based on an 11-day dataset from Shanghai that includes not only spatiotemporal traces but also the frequencies of browsing different categories of mobile internet content (e.g., tourism and finance), we examine several relationships between mobile internet usage and activity-travel behavior.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAdvances in Transport Policy and Planning
Subtitle of host publicationThe Evolving Impacts of ICT on Activities and Travel Behavior
EditorsEran Ben-Elia
PublisherElsevier
Chapter4
Pages81-105
Number of pages25
ISBN (Print)9780128162132
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2019

Publication series

NameAdvances in Transport Policy and Planning
Volume3
ISSN (Print)2543-0009
ISSN (Electronic)2542-9116

Bibliographical note

Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository ‘You share, we take care!’ – Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.

Keywords

  • Activity patterns
  • Commuting behavior
  • Location choice
  • Mobile internet usage
  • Mobile phone data
  • Mobile phone usage
  • Spatiotemporal traces
  • Travel behavior
  • Variety seeking

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