Effect of weather on pedestrian trip count and duration: City-scale evaluations using mobile phone application data.

ABSTRACT: We examined the association between meteorological (weather) conditions in a given locale and pedestrian trips frequency and duration, through the use of locative digital data. These associations were determined for seasonality, urban microclimate, and commuting. We analyzed GPS data from a broadly available activity tracking mobile phone application that automatically recorded 247,814 trips from 5432 unique users in Boston and 257,697 trips from 8256 users in San Francisco over a 50-week period. Generally, we observed increased air temperature and the presence of light cloud cover had a positive association with hourly trip frequency in both cities, regardless of seasonality. Temperature and weather conditions generally showed greater associations with weekend and discretionary travel, th

SUBMITTER: Vanky AP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5555086 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature