Planning for sustainable cities by estimating building occupancy with mobile phones

Accurate occupancy is crucial for planning for sustainable buildings. Using massive, passively-collected mobile phone data, we introduce a novel framework to estimate building occupancy at unprecedented scale. We show that, at urban-scale, occupancy differs widely from current estimates based on bui...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Barbour, Edward, Davila, Carlos Cerezo, Gupta, Siddharth, Reinhart, Christoph, Kaur, Jasleen, Gonzalez, Marta C.
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Springer Science and Business Media LLC 2020
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/124662