A Primary Study to Understand the Trends of Generation Trips along the LRT Route in Utsunomiya City by Using Cell Phone Data

Abstract

Many cities in Japan have met some problems such as budget problems, vacant homes due to the reduction of population, aging society nowadays. As a result, new transportation systems such as LRT (Light Rail Transit) are put into high emphasis recently since promoting the ridership of public transportation systems serves as a good way to solve these problems. Here, in order to understand basic condition of generation trips along the new LRT system in Utsunomiya City in Japan, cell phone data was used and calculated. By showing the results on ArcGIS map, one can know that which areas have the trend of increasing trips clearly. Furthermore, association analysis was conducted by utilizing cell phone data and shape-file data of infrastructures. Findings are the infrastructures such as hospital, parks and culture facilities are the most important elements in the area that the trends of trips are increasing in this case study.