Print Email Facebook Twitter Road Network Design in a Developing Country Using Mobile Phone Data Title Road Network Design in a Developing Country Using Mobile Phone Data: An Application to Senegal Author Wang, Y. (TU Delft Transport and Planning) Correia, Gonçalo (TU Delft Transport and Planning) de Romph, E. (TU Delft Transport and Planning; TNO) Santos, Bruno F. (TU Delft Air Transport & Operations) Date 2018 Abstract This study uses mobile phone data to understand mobility patterns in a country, with limited mobility data, in order to give advice about decisions on how to design the national and regional road network. Our method consists of three parts: (1) filtering mobile phone traces to derive mobility patterns, (2) building an adapted formulation of the gravity-based trip distribution model, which considers telecommunication intensity (i.e., aggregate number of calls and text messages) and travel time as input to forecast the influence of road improvements on country-wide mobility, and (3) optimizing the road network investment based on the adapted trip distribution model by using a local search algorithm. The method was applied to the case study country of Senegal. The mobile phone data was transformed to support informed decisions on road network development in that country given different objectives, namely accessibility and equity. We believe that the methodology is valuable and reproducible to other countries where traditional mobility data is scarce but mobile phone data is available to transport planners. Subject Adaptation modelsMobile handsetsPlanningPredictive modelsRoadsSociologyStatistics To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:37a97768-f579-41ff-b48b-6be7f16f13ea DOI https://doi.org/10.1109/MITS.2018.2879168 Embargo date 2021-12-08 ISSN 1939-1390 Source IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Magazine, 12 (2020) (2), 36-49 Bibliographical note 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. Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights © 2018 Y. Wang, Gonçalo Correia , E. de Romph, Bruno F. Santos Files PDF Road_Network_Design_in_a_ ... enegal.pdf 2.34 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:37a97768-f579-41ff-b48b-6be7f16f13ea/datastream/OBJ/view