Une approche basée graphes pour la détection de zones fonctionnelles urbaines
Abstract
In this paper, we presented a method for the structural analysis of a city, specifically for
the determination of its functional areas, based on communities detection in graph. The nodes
of the graph correspond to geographical units resulting from a cartographic division of the
city according to the road network. The edges are weighted using a Gaussian distance-decay
function and the amount of spatial interactions between nodes. Our approach optimize the
modularity to ensure that the functional areas detected have strong interactions within their
borders but lower interactions outside. Moreover, it leverages on POIs' entropy to maintain a
good socioeconomic heterogeneity in the detected areas. We conducted experiments using taxi
trips and POIs datasets from the city of Porto, as a study case, to demonstrate the ability of our
method to portray functional areas while including spatial and socioeconomic dynamics.