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Population Mobility Modeling Based on Call Detail Records of Mobile Phones for Heat Exposure Assessment in Dhaka, Bangladesh

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The daily journeys people make are known to have significant effects on human health. Previously, capturing and modeling population mobility was difficult or costly, especially in developing countries. However, the spread of mobile phones now allows us to generate population mobility data relatively easily. Using call detail records (CDRs) of mobile phones in Dhaka, Bangladesh, we generated a dataset, known as a “dynamic census,” which modeled how people move daily and predicted their population characteristics. In this study, we implemented a heat exposure assessment that integrated population mobility extracted from the dynamic census. The result shows that incorporating population mobility can alter heat exposure assessments, regardless of population characteristics. Specifically, it was found that the heat exposure of people from suburban areas is underestimated if their mobility is not integrated into the model. Generating the dynamic census is still under active development. With future development of the dataset, it will be possible to do further analyses, such as incorporating seasonal changes in mobility, greater sample size, or wider study areas for environmental risk assessments.

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  1. Chubu Institute for Advanced Studies, Chubu University, Kasugai, Aichi, Japan

    Shinya Yasumoto

  2. Department of Human Ecology, School of International Health, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

    Shinya Yasumoto

  3. Department of Human Ecology, School of International Health, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

    Chiho Watanabe

  4. Current affiliation: National Institute for Environmental Studies, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

    Chiho Watanabe

  5. Center for Spatial Information Science, University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba, Japan

    Ayumi Arai & Ryosuke Shibasaki

  6. Earth Observation Research Center, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

    Kei Oyoshi

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  1. Department of Food, Life and Environmental Science, Faculty of Agriculture, Yamagata University, Yamagata, Japan

    Toru Watanabe

  2. National Institute for Environmental Studies, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

    Chiho Watanabe

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Yasumoto, S., Watanabe, C., Arai, A., Shibasaki, R., Oyoshi, K. (2019). Population Mobility Modeling Based on Call Detail Records of Mobile Phones for Heat Exposure Assessment in Dhaka, Bangladesh. In: Watanabe, T., Watanabe, C. (eds) Health in Ecological Perspectives in the Anthropocene. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-2526-7_3

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