Placetime

Summary

We do interdisciplinary research to advance our understanding of complex temporal patterns of places around the world. Despite variation in population, climate, economics, politics, and culture, everyone around the world shares the same time constraints. No country or city has more time in a day (or in a week) than anyone else. Yet, how early or late in the day places are active (e.g., popular dining times at restaurants) change from country to country, city to city, and neighborhood to neighborhood. The temporal patterns of a place reflect the unique social, cultural, and economic dynamics of that place. We investigate how these temporal patterns are created, disrupted, and evolve, and how they influence the social and physical aspects of places.

Objectives

• Improve population modeling Land use enrichment
• Explore climate influences on temporal patterns
• Measure the influence of seasonal shifts in activity patterns
• Estimate energy use metrics Identify shifts in aggregate mobility
• Measure change in public and private work weeks and weekends
• Anomalous event detection and intensity