Using circular statistics to explore the geography of the journey to work

被引：17
作者：
Corcoran, Jonathan [1 ]
Chhetri, Prem [2 ]
Stimson, Robert [1 ]
机构：
[1] Univ Queensland, UQSRC, Brisbane, Qld 4072, Australia
[2] RMIT Univ, Fac Business, Sch Management, Melbourne, Vic, Australia
来源：
PAPERS IN REGIONAL SCIENCE | 2009年 / 88卷 / 01期
关键词：
R0; R11; R12; Circular statistics; journey to work; geographic information system; flow mapping; SPATIAL-DISTRIBUTION; PATTERNS; GROWTH;
D O I：
10.1111/j.1435-5957.2008.00164.x
中图分类号：
F [经济];
学科分类号：
02 ;
摘要：
This article introduces the application of circular statistics to an analysis of 'journey to work' (JTW) data for the South East Queensland (SEQ) region in Australia. The JTW data include the total number of journeys between an origin (home) and destination zone (work) across SEQ. Using bespoke tools developed in a GIS environment the direction and frequency of each journey is first calculated. Using the outputs from this process, two descriptive measures - namely the circular mean and circular variance - are then computed and the results presented. Analysis of the mapped outputs shows strong JTW patterns that are readily detectable and visualised using a combination of GIS and circular statistics.
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页码：119 / 132
页数：14
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