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

doi:10.1016/bs.atpp.2019.08.001

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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Transport and Planning

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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 language	English
Title of host publication	Advances in Transport Policy and Planning
Subtitle of host publication	The Evolving Impacts of ICT on Activities and Travel Behavior
Editors	Eran Ben-Elia
Publisher	Elsevier
Chapter	4
Pages	81-105
Number of pages	25
ISBN (Print)	9780128162132
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.atpp.2019.08.001
Publication status	Published - 2019

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Name	Advances in Transport Policy and Planning
Volume	3
ISSN (Print)	2543-0009
ISSN (Electronic)	2542-9116

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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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Wang, Y., Correia, G. H. D. A., & van Arem, B. (2019). Relationships between mobile phone usage and activity-travel behavior: A review of the literature and an example. In E. Ben-Elia (Ed.), Advances in Transport Policy and Planning: The Evolving Impacts of ICT on Activities and Travel Behavior (pp. 81-105). (Advances in Transport Policy and Planning; Vol. 3). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.atpp.2019.08.001

Wang, Yihong ; Correia, Gonçalo Homem de Almeida ; van Arem, Bart. / Relationships between mobile phone usage and activity-travel behavior : A review of the literature and an example. Advances in Transport Policy and Planning: The Evolving Impacts of ICT on Activities and Travel Behavior. editor / Eran Ben-Elia. Elsevier, 2019. pp. 81-105 (Advances in Transport Policy and Planning).

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Relationships between mobile phone usage and activity-travel behavior: A review of the literature and an example. / Wang, Yihong; Correia, Gonçalo Homem de Almeida ; van Arem, Bart.
Advances in Transport Policy and Planning: The Evolving Impacts of ICT on Activities and Travel Behavior. ed. / Eran Ben-Elia. Elsevier, 2019. p. 81-105 (Advances in Transport Policy and Planning; Vol. 3).

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Wang Y, Correia GHDA , van Arem B. Relationships between mobile phone usage and activity-travel behavior: A review of the literature and an example. In Ben-Elia E, editor, Advances in Transport Policy and Planning: The Evolving Impacts of ICT on Activities and Travel Behavior. Elsevier. 2019. p. 81-105. (Advances in Transport Policy and Planning). doi: 10.1016/bs.atpp.2019.08.001

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