Special Issue (Coastal Engineering)Paper
PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS OF CHARACTERISTICS OF POPULATION OF VISITORS TO SANDY BEACHES IN JAPAN USING MOBILE NETWORK DATA
2023 Volume 79 Issue 17 Article ID: 23-17177
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2023 Volume 79 Issue 17 Article ID: 23-17177
In this study, the population change in sandy beaches across Japan were analyzed using hourly mobile network data for four years from 2019 to 2022 to obtain the characteristics of change in number of visitors to beaches. From the temporal changes in the monthly averages of the population in sandy beach meshes, the influence of seasonal changes and Covid-19 in the trend and fluctuations were different depending on the beach type. There are sandy beaches people comes from all over Japan and the same municipality. On the other hand, it is become clear that the lack of data due to restrictions on the available data concerning the protection of personal information makes difficult to obtain the actual population in places where the number of visitors is small.
