@article{ref1,
title="Analysis of pedestrian behaviors through non-invasive Bluetooth monitoring",
journal="Applied geography",
year="2017",
author="Yoshimura, Yuji and Amini, Alexander and Sobolevsky, Stanislav and Blat, Josep and Ratti, Carlo",
volume="81",
number="",
pages="43-51",
abstract="This paper presents a novel framework to analyze pedestrians' behavioral patterns throughout shopping environments in the historical center of Barcelona, Spain. We employ a Bluetooth detection technique to capture a large-scale dataset of pedestrians' behavior over a one-month period, including during a key sales period. We focused on comparing particular behaviors before, during, and after the discount sales by analyzing this large-scale dataset, which is different but complementary to the conventionally used small-scale samples. Our results uncover pedestrians actively exploring a wider area of the district during a discount period compared to weekdays, giving rise to strong underlying mobility patterns.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0143-6228",
doi="10.1016/j.apgeog.2017.02.002",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.apgeog.2017.02.002"
}