Correlation Analysis Between Land Use and Urban Street Patterns

Abstract

Urban morphology, the study of urban forms that were formed by roads represents the result of dynamic interactions between multiple factors, such as transportation efficiency, population size, and local land use. Thus, investigating the geometry of street patterns has the potential to reveal information on the main factors in street pattern systems that drive the formation of street structures. In this study, we speculated and validated our hypothesis that among multiple factors, land use in each region contributed significantly to determining the area of the urban blocks bounded by roads; we found that the areas of urban blocks and land use were closely connected. The results showed that the block area tended to be larger in regions where land use was predominantly meant for companies and schools, while it tended to be smaller in regions where land use was predominantly for residential purposes. This trend in land use, which has been difficult to evaluate quantitatively, was defined clearly for the first time when the concept of land use was examined from the perspective of the ratio of daytime to nighttime population (RDN), which represents the amount of human movement in an urban area.

A Visit Generation Process for Human Mobility Random Graphs with Location-Specific Latent-Variables: From Land Use to Travel Demand

“…Regional movement patterns, and consequently travelers' distribution, can be explained from land use, since purposes of people's trips are strongly correlated with the land use of the trip's origin and destination [35,36,75,88]. In this section, the investigation on possible properties of latent variables will be useful to select which kernel function is suitable to meet the trip mobility network characteristics.…”

“…Finally, the study underscores a reciprocal interplay between human mobility and the demographic and economic structure of a region, a topic extensively discussed in the literature [31][32][33][34][35][36]. Using a bottomup view of the research, attractiveness is the basic impulse that draws people to a location.…”