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| THE OVERALL CHARACTERISTICS AND TYPICAL AREA ANALYSIS OF COMMUTER FLOW IN BEIJING |
| ZHOU Jia-lin1, WANG De2 |
1. The Rising Lab, Shanghai 200041, China;
2. College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, China |
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Abstract Based on mobile phone signaling data, this study analyzed the overall spatial pattern of commuting in Beijing from three aspects:Job and residence distribution, commuting direction, and distribution of distance and time consumption at the city level. Furthermore, it explored the difference of commuting characteristics in typical employment and residence areas. The main findings are as follows:Firstly, the residential or employment density in Beijing does not completely follow a gradual decrease from the inside to the outside, but is presented as a high-density residential belt and several dot-shaped employment centers; Secondly, two long- distance commuting belts are presented, including one from Changping to Zhongguancun and another from Tongzhou to CBD; Thirdly, for inward and outward relations, there are quite a lot employees in the central city come from new towns of Tongzhou, Daxing and Changping, meanwhile, the three new towns of Yizhuang, Tongzhou and Shunyi also attract a small amount of commuters from the central city; Fourthly, it shows that the people living within West Fifth Ring Road and outside North Fifth Ring Road face higher time consumption per kilometer during commuting, indicating the severe commuting traffic conditions there. Additionally, by comparing the commuting characteristics of residents in five types of residential areas and employees in four types of employment areas, the differences in the spatial patterns of commuter flow in these typical areas have also been found.
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Received: 22 January 2022
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