Data Mining Tourism Patterns - Call Detail Records as Complementary Tools for Urban Decision Making
Nai Chun Chen, Jenny Xie, Phil Tinn, Luis Alonso, Takehiko Nagakura, Kent Larson · Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia · 2017
In this study we show how Call Detail Record (CDR) can be used to better understand the travel patterns of visitors. We show how Origin-Destination (OD) Interactive Maps can provide transportation information through CDR. We then use aggregation of CDR to show the differences between the travel patterns of visitors from different countries and of different lengths of stay. We also show that visitors move differently during event periods and non-event periods, reflecting the importance of real-time data available by CDR. From CDR, we can gain more detailed and complete information about how tourists move compared to traditional surveys, which can be used to aid smarter transportation systems and urban resource planning.