Entropy as a Measure of Attractiveness and Socioeconomic Complexity in Rio de Janeiro Metropolitan Area

Entropy as a Measure of Attractiveness and Socioeconomic Complexity in Rio de Janeiro Metropolitan Area

Defining and measuring spatial inequalities across the urban environment remains a complex and elusive task which has been facilitated by the increasing availability of large geolocated databases. In this study, we rely on a mobile phone dataset and an entropy-based metric to measure the attractiven...

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Main Authors: Maxime Lenormand, Horacio Samaniego, Júlio César Chaves, Vinícius da Fonseca Vieira, Moacyr Alvim Horta Barbosa da Silva, Alexandre Gonçalves Evsukoff
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2020-03-01
Series:Entropy
Subjects:
mobile phone data
urban mobility
attractiveness
urban entropy
urban computing
Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/22/3/368
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Summary:Defining and measuring spatial inequalities across the urban environment remains a complex and elusive task which has been facilitated by the increasing availability of large geolocated databases. In this study, we rely on a mobile phone dataset and an entropy-based metric to measure the attractiveness of a location in the Rio de Janeiro Metropolitan Area (Brazil) as the diversity of visitors’ location of residence. The results show that the attractiveness of a given location measured by entropy is an important descriptor of the socioeconomic status of the location, and can thus be used as a proxy for complex socioeconomic indicators.
ISSN:1099-4300

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