Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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7377352 | Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications | 2016 | 10 Pages |
Abstract
Identifying functional urban areas is a significant research of considerable interest in many important fields such as city planning and facility location problem. Traditionally, we identify the function of urban areas from the macro-level perspective. With the availability of human digital footprints, investigation of functional urban areas from a micro-level perspective becomes possible. In this paper, we identified the functional urban areas of a metropolitan city in China by some metrics of community detection based on the social network of mobile phone users. The result shows that there are close relations between urban area and individual communication network, which can help us identify the function of areas more conveniently.
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Authors
Xin Liu, Pengfei Jiao, Ning Yuan, Wenjun Wang,