Exploratory analysis of commuting travel data for the definition of functional urban regions

• Grant number: 14/26903-0
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: June 01, 2015
• End date: May 31, 2017
• Field of knowledge: Applied Social Sciences - Urban and Regional Planning - Methods and Techniques of Urban and Regional Planning
• Principal Investigator: Gustavo Garcia Manzato
• Grantee: Larissa Limongi Aguiar
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Engenharia (FE). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Bauru. Bauru , SP, Brazil

Abstract

This project brings together methods of urban planning, designed in the last two decades, and seeks to develop an exploratory analysis to identify functional urban regions (FURs). Given the difficulty of defining these areas, which extend beyond the administrative boundaries of the municipalities and form contiguous urbanized regions, and the need to identify them to solve problems of urban planning and management, existing methods analyze different variables that take into account the complex relationships in those regions. In this sense, we propose an approach that seeks to define these FURs based on commuting data observed among the municipalities in the state of São Paulo. With the application of Spatial Statistics techniques and the construction of thematic maps using such data, the results obtained can be compared to the delimitation of the official FURs. In addition, new subsidies can be provided to the definition of FURs.

Scientific publications

(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

AGUIAR, LARISSA LIMONGI; MANZATO, GUSTAVO GARCIA; RODRIGUES DA SILV, ANTNIO NELSON. Combining travel and population data through a bivariate spatial analysis to define Functional Urban Regions. JOURNAL OF TRANSPORT GEOGRAPHY, v. 82, JAN 2020. (14/26903-0)