The Spatial-Temporal Pattern of People's Daily Activities and Transportation Demand Analysis- A Case Study of Guangzhou, China

With the humanism research especially after the development of temporal-GIS technology, the study on Time-geography and people's daily activities are now becoming one of the hop issues in urban studies. At the same time, lack of humanist consideration, the traditional "Four-step" OD transportation demand model also meets with new challenges. With the rapid urbanization, informatization, and marketing transformation, the structure and transportation demand in urban China are now changing. The individual micro-spatial behavior and the temporal pattern of people's daily activities are one of the angle views for explaining current situation. Taking Guangzhou as a case, using data of people's travel-log collected by questionnaire, developing spatial-temporal analysis tool with ARC GIS VBA program, this paper tries to analyze the spatial-temporal pattern of people's daily activities and its impact on urban transportation demand. There's closely spatial-temporal relationship according to people's travel chain. The central area of Guangzhou city is still the most attractive places for people's daily activities, and the social special diversity appear according to the distribution of people's daily activities with their social status.