Space-time mobility and accessibility inequalities assessment based on big data

• Grant number: 21/09208-0
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Doctorate
• Start date: January 15, 2022
• End date: January 14, 2023
• Field of knowledge: Engineering - Transportation Engineering - Transportation Planning
• Principal Investigator: Mariana Abrantes Giannotti
• Grantee: Matheus Henrique Cunha Barboza
• Supervisor: Karst Teunis Geurs
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Institution abroad: University of Twente (UT), Netherlands
• Associated to the scholarship: 21/01636-2 - Space-time mobility and accessibility inequalities assessment based on big data, BP.DR

Abstract

Transport studies based on big data have been gaining relevance, as well as the use of the concept of accessibility to assess equity issues, however, to the best of our knowledge, these two fronts are not yet related in the literature. This study seeks to integrate them, using phone data, combined with the traditional household origin-destination survey data, to propose a space-time accessibility measure based on the patterns identified with big data, taking advantage of the wide share of the population that is represented with this new data. The space-time measures are pointed out as more accurate in the assessment of equity in transport since they reveal differences in interpersonal time budgets, but research on this field is constrained by the need for a diary of the users' activities, which may be obtained from the traditional methods but just for a small portion of the population. This project intends to tackle this problem by proposing new methods to capture urban transport inequalities and related spatial inequity based on big data. (AU)

Scientific publications

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BARBOZA, MATHEUS H. C.; GIANNOTTI, MARIANA; GRIGOLON, ANNA B.; GEURS, KARST T.. A comparative analysis of leisure accessibility and equity impacts using location-based and space-time accessibility metrics. TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH PART A-POLICY AND PRACTICE, v. 190, p. 16-pg., 2024-09-05. (21/09208-0, 21/01636-2, 13/07616-7)

BARBOZA, MATHEUS; GIANNOTTI, MARIANA; GRIGOLON, ANNA; GEURS, KARST. Transit fares and space-time accessibility: measuring inequalities in park accessibility for Sao Paulo favela residents using mobile phone and smart card data. JOURNAL OF TRANSPORT GEOGRAPHY, v. 128, p. 11-pg., 2025-10-01. (13/07616-7, 21/01636-2, 21/09208-0)

LUZ, GREGORIO; BARBOZA, MATHEUS H. C.; PORTUGAL, LICINIO; GIANNOTTI, MARIANA; VAN WEE, BERT. Does better accessibility help to reduce social exclusion? Evidence from the city of Sao Paulo, Brazil. TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH PART A-POLICY AND PRACTICE, v. 166, p. 32-pg., 2022-12-01. (21/09208-0)