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.