<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>Mapping the daily spatial mobility of university students in an urban environment is the focus of this paper. It uses the city of České Budějovice in the Czech Republic as a case study, employing three different research tools – travel diaries, GPS loggers and Smartphone applications. We focus our attention on the analysis of spatial patterns of mobility using basic mobility indicators (distance, number of daily trips, time spent mobility), travel behaviours (use of transport modes) and the detection of time-space bundles (spaces of concentration of particular time-space trajectories) within the city. We identified four main time-space bundles. Then we compare the three main research methods according to their tracking accuracy and informative value. The Smartphone applications (using the A-GPS technology) provided the best results for the spatial mobility of respondents, although the travel diaries method is still unique due to the extent of some socio-demographic and transport characteristics.</p></abstract>

Mapping the daily spatial mobility of university students in an urban environment is the focus of this paper. It uses the city of České Budějovice in the Czech Republic as a case study, employing three different research tools – travel diaries, GPS loggers and Smartphone applications. We focus our attention on the analysis of spatial patterns of mobility using basic mobility indicators (distance, number of daily trips, time spent mobility), travel behaviours (use of transport modes) and the detection of time-space bundles (spaces of concentration of particular time-space trajectories) within the city. We identified four main time-space bundles. Then we compare the three main research methods according to their tracking accuracy and informative value. The Smartphone applications (using the A-GPS technology) provided the best results for the spatial mobility of respondents, although the travel diaries method is still unique due to the extent of some socio-demographic and transport characteristics.

Travel diaries, GPS loggers and Smartphone applications in mapping the daily mobility patterns of students in an urban environment

Department of Geography, Faculty of Education

Department of Social Geography and Regional Development, Faculty of Science

Moravian Geographical Reports

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Mapping the daily spatial mobility of university students in an urban environment is the focus of this paper. It uses the city of České Budějovice in the Czech...

Travel diaries, GPS loggers and Smartphone applications in mapping the daily mobility patterns of students in an urban environment

Published Online: Dec 31, 2020

Page range: 259 - 268

Received: Aug 30, 2019

Accepted: Aug 20, 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/mgr-2020-0019

Keywords
spatial mobility, travel diaries, GPS loggers, Smartphone applications, 3D visualisation, students, Czech Republic

© 2020 Stanislav Kraft et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Travel diaries, GPS loggers and Smartphone applications in mapping the daily mobility patterns of students in an urban environment

Published Online: Dec 31, 2020

Page range: 259 - 268

Received: Aug 30, 2019

Accepted: Aug 20, 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/mgr-2020-0019

Keywordsspatial mobility, travel diaries, GPS loggers, Smartphone applications, 3D visualisation, students, Czech Republic

© 2020 Stanislav Kraft et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
spatial mobility, travel diaries, GPS loggers, Smartphone applications, 3D visualisation, students, Czech Republic