A Systematic Literature Review on Population Density and Mobility

  • Lee Chin Yee

Abstract

Urbanization relies on population growth and mobility in urban areas. Population density is measured by the number of people in a certain area, while mobility refers to the movement from one location to another. This paper, reports a comprehensive systematic literature review (SLR) guided by the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) statement on the subject area related to population density and mobility. This review covers various published literature, spanning from 2012 to 2023. The purpose is to examine in detail the hot topic and the research gap on population density and mobility. This review found that urban is a common topic discussed with population density and mobility as urban is a big portfolio that involves urban planning, transportation, and real estate. Population density and mobility will be actively discussed when there is an epidemic.

References

Abubakar, I. R., & Dano, U. L. (2020). Sustainable urban planning strategies for mitigating climate change in Saudi Arabia. Environment, Development and Sustainability, 22(6), 5129-5152.
Basu, R., & Alves, B. B. (2019). Practical framework for benchmarking and impact evaluation of public transportation infrastructure: Case of Belo Horizonte, Brazil. Transportation Research Record, 2673(3), 711-721.
Bencekri, M., Founoun, A., Haqiq, A., & Hayar, A. (2022, September). Investigation of Shared-Bike Demand Using Data Analytics. In 2022 IEEE International Smart Cities Conference (ISC2) (pp. 1-4). IEEE.
Cartenì, A., Di Francesco, L., & Martino, M. (2020). How mobility habits influenced the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic: Results from the Italian case study. Science of the Total Environment, 741, 140489.
Cavoli, C. (2021). Accelerating sustainable mobility and land-use transitions in rapidly growing cities: Identifying common patterns and enabling factors. Journal of Transport Geography, 94, 103093.
Chadsuthi, S., Althouse, B. M., Iamsirithaworn, S., Triampo, W., Grantz, K. H., & Cummings, D. A. T. (2018). Travel distance and human movement predict paths of emergence and spatial spread of chikungunya in Thailand. Epidemiology & Infection, 146(13), 1654-1662.
Chen, M., Sui, Y., Liu, W., Liu, H., & Huang, Y. (2019). Urbanization patterns and poverty reduction: A new perspective to explore the countries along the Belt and Road. Habitat International, 84, 1-14.
Fischer, J., & Winters, M. (2021). COVID-19 street reallocation in mid-sized Canadian cities: socio-spatial equity patterns. Canadian journal of public health, 112, 376-390.
Gao, S., Rao, J., Kang, Y., Liang, Y., & Kruse, J. (2020). Mapping county-level mobility pattern changes in the United States in response to COVID-19. SIGSpatial Special, 12(1), 16-26.
Gariazzo, C., & Pelliccioni, A. (2019). A multi-city urban population mobility study using mobile phone traffic data. Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy, 12(4), 753-771.
Ge, F., Chen, W., Zeng, Y., & Li, J. (2021). The nexus between urbanization and traffic accessibility in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River urban agglomerations, China. International journal of environmental research and public health, 18(7), 3828.
Han, S., & Sun, B. (2019). Impact of population density on PM2. 5 concentrations: A case study in Shanghai, China. Sustainability, 11(7), 1968.
Hayes, M., & Zaban, H. (2020). Transnational gentrification: The crossroads of transnational mobility and urban research. Urban Studies, 57(15), 3009-3024.
Hertzog, A. (2020). The Lagos Abidjan Corridor: Migration Driven Urbanisation in West Africa (Doctoral dissertation, ETH Zurich).
Holcombe, R. G., & Williams, D. W. (2008). The impact of population density on municipal government expenditures. Public Finance Review, 36(3), 359-373.
Kesarovski, T., & Hernández-Palacio, F. (2023). Time, the other dimension of urban form: Measuring the relationship between urban density and accessibility to grocery shops in the 10-minute city. Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science, 50(1), 44-59.
Kiba-Janiak, M., & Witkowski, J. (2019). Sustainable urban mobility plans: How do they work?. Sustainability, 11(17), 4605.
Kim, S. (2007). Changes in the nature of urban spatial structure in the United States, 1890–2000. Journal of Regional science, 47(2), 273-287.
Kraemer, M. U., Faria, N. R., Reiner, R. C., Golding, N., Nikolay, B., Stasse, S., ... & Cauchemez, S. (2017). Spread of yellow fever virus outbreak in Angola and the Democratic Republic of the Congo 2015–16: a modelling study. The Lancet infectious diseases, 17(3), 330-338.
Lam, D., & Head, P. (2012). Sustainable urban mobility. Energy, Transport, & the Environment: Addressing the Sustainable Mobility Paradigm, 359-371.
Largo, H., Ribeiro, P., Dias, G. J. C., & Trujillo, C. (2019). Public transportation demand model for low density territories.
Lee, J., Vojnovic, I., & Grady, S. C. (2018). The ‘transportation disadvantaged’: Urban form, gender and automobile versus non-automobile travel in the Detroit region. Urban Studies, 55(11), 2470-2498.
Lee, M., & Holme, P. (2015). Relating land use and human intra-city mobility. PloS one, 10(10), e0140152.
Lee, S., Lee, J., Hiemstra-van Mastrigt, S., & Kim, E. (2022). What cities have is how people travel: Conceptualizing a data-mining-driven modal split framework. Cities, 131, 103902.
Leyk, S., Uhl, J. H., Connor, D. S., Braswell, A. E., Mietkiewicz, N., Balch, J. K., & Gutmann, M. (2020). Two centuries of settlement and urban development in the United States. Science Advances, 6(23), eaba2937.
Li, D., Liu, Y., Song, Y., Ye, Z., & Liu, D. (2022). A Framework for Assessing Resilience in Urban Mobility: Incorporating Impact of Ridesharing. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19(17), 10801.
Li, D., Stucky, B. J., Deck, J., Baiser, B., & Guralnick, R. P. (2019). The effect of urbanization on plant phenology depends on regional temperature. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 3(12), 1661-1667.
Li, J., Li, J., Yuan, Y., & Li, G. (2019). Spatiotemporal distribution characteristics and mechanism analysis of urban population density: a case of Xi'an, Shaanxi, China. Cities, 86, 62-70.
Liang, L., Wang, Z., & Li, J. (2019). The effect of urbanization on environmental pollution in rapidly developing urban agglomerations. Journal of cleaner production, 237, 117649.
Madden, J. M., More, S., Teljeur, C., Gleeson, J., Walsh, C., & McGrath, G. (2021). Population mobility trends, deprivation index and the spatio-temporal spread of coronavirus disease 2019 in ireland. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18(12), 6285.
Maithani, R., Pandey, J. K., & Kumar, A. (2021, February). Influence of mobility, population and effective reproductive number (R) on the transmission of Coronavirus. In Journal of Physics: Conference Series (Vol. 1797, No. 1, p. 012059). IOP Publishing.
Martinez, C., & Rakha, T. (2017). A Design Framework for Sustainable Mobility Hub Networks in Mid-Sized Cities. In Proc., 33rd PLEA Conference: Design to Thrive. Edinburgh.
McDonald, J. F. (1989). Econometric studies of urban population density: A survey. Journal of urban economics, 26(3), 361-385.
Mei, S., Chen, B., Zhu, Y., Lees, M. H., Boukhanovsky, A. V., & Sloot, P. M. (2015). Simulating city-level airborne infectious diseases. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 51, 97-105.
Melkonyan, A., Koch, J., Lohmar, F., Kamath, V., Munteanu, V., Schmidt, J. A., & Bleischwitz, R. (2020). Integrated urban mobility policies in metropolitan areas: A system dynamics approach for the Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan region in Germany. Sustainable Cities and Society, 61, 102358.
Mendiola, L., & González, P. (2021). Urban development and sustainable mobility: a spatial analysis in the buenos aires metropolitan area. Land, 10(2), 157.
Mueller, N., Rojas-Rueda, D., Khreis, H., Cirach, M., Andrés, D., Ballester, J., ... & Nieuwenhuijsen, M. (2020). Changing the urban design of cities for health: The superblock model. Environment international, 134, 105132.
Narbón‐Perpiñá, I., & De Witte, K. (2018). Local governments' efficiency: a systematic literature review—part II. International Transactions in Operational Research, 25(4), 1107-1136.
Paul, J., & Criado, A. R. (2020). The art of writing literature review: What do we know and what do we need to know?. International Business Review, 29(4), 101717.
Penazzi, S., & Accorsi, R. (2019). Sustainable urban food planning: Optimizing land-use allocation and transportation in urban-rural ecosystems. In Sustainable Food Supply Chains (pp. 277-291). Academic Press.
Pinto, F., & Akhavan, M. (2022). Scenarios for a Post-Pandemic City: urban planning strategies and challenges of making “Milan 15-minutes city”. Transportation research procedia, 60, 370-377.
Popova, O., Gorev, A., & Solodkij, A. (2021). Bus route network planning in cities beyond the Arctic Circle. Transportation Research Procedia, 57, 470-478.
Profiroiu, C. M., Bodislav, D. A., Burlacu, S., & Rădulescu, C. V. (2020). Challenges of sustainable urban development in the context of population Growth. European Journal of Sustainable Development, 9(3), 51-51.
Rahim, A. A., Musa, S. N., Ramesh, S., & Lim, M. K. (2020). A systematic review on material selection methods. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part L: Journal of Materials: Design and Applications, 234(7), 1032-1059.
Rahman, M. M. (2017). Do population density, economic growth, energy use and exports adversely affect environmental quality in Asian populous countries?. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 77, 506-514.
Rahman, M. M., & Alam, K. (2021). Clean energy, population density, urbanization and environmental pollution nexus: Evidence from Bangladesh. Renewable Energy, 172, 1063-1072.
Rodríguez, J., Willmes, C., Sommer, C., & Mateos, A. (2022). Sustainable human population density in Western Europe between 560.000 and 360.000 years ago. Scientific Reports, 12(1), 6907.
Santini, L., Isaac, N. J., Maiorano, L., Ficetola, G. F., Huijbregts, M. A., Carbone, C., & Thuiller, W. (2018). Global drivers of population density in terrestrial vertebrates. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 27(8), 968-979.
Santos, B., Passos, S., Gonçalves, J., & Matias, I. (2022). Spatial multi-criteria analysis for road segment cycling suitability assessment. Sustainability, 14(16), 9928.
Serrano-López, R., Linares-Unamunzaga, A., & San Emeterio, C. M. (2019). Urban sustainable mobility and planning policies. A Spanish mid-sized city case. Cities, 95, 102356.
Shamsuzzoha, A., Nieminen, J., Piya, S., & Rutledge, K. (2021). Smart city for sustainable environment: A comparison of participatory strategies from Helsinki, Singapore and London. Cities, 114, 103194.
Shao, Z., Sumari, N. S., Portnov, A., Ujoh, F., Musakwa, W., & Mandela, P. J. (2021). Urban sprawl and its impact on sustainable urban development: a combination of remote sensing and social media data. Geo-spatial Information Science, 24(2), 241-255.
Shirazi, S. A., & Kazmi, S. J. H. (2020). Analysis of population growth and urban development in Lahore-Pakistan using geospatial techniques: Suggesting some future options. South Asian Studies, 29(1).
Smailes, P. J., Argent, N., & Griffin, T. L. (2002). Rural population density: its impact on social and demographic aspects of rural communities. Journal of Rural Studies, 18(4), 385-404.
Song, J., Tong, X., Wang, L., Zhao, C., & Prishchepov, A. V. (2019). Monitoring finer-scale population density in urban functional zones: A remote sensing data fusion approach. Landscape and urban planning, 190, 103580.
Sun, W., Bao, P., Zhao, X., Tang, J., & Wang, L. (2021). Road Traffic and Urban Form Factors Correlated with the Incidence of Lung Cancer in High-density Areas: An Ecological Study in Downtown Shanghai, China. Journal of Urban Health, 98, 328-343.
Sutton, P. C., Elvidge, C., & Obremski, T. (2003). Building and evaluating models to estimate ambient population density. Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing, 69(5), 545-553.
van der Drift, S., Wismans, L., & Olde Kalter, M. J. (2022). Changing mobility patterns in the Netherlands during COVID-19 outbreak. Journal of Location Based Services, 16(1), 1-24.
Vazquez, E., Rodrigues, B., Najjar, M. K., Haddad, A., & Hammad, A. W. (2022). A framework to locate new medium and high capacity stations for public transportation modes of transport in Rio de Janeiro. Cleaner Engineering and Technology, 10, 100537.
Vîlcea, C., Avram, S., & Florescu, C. (2018, June). Using GIS methods to analyze spatial characteristics of urban transportation system in Craiova city. In Forum Geografic (Vol. 17, No. 1).
Wang, S., Zhang, M., Hu, T., Fu, X., Gao, Z., Halloran, B., & Liu, Y. (2021). A bibliometric analysis and network visualisation of human mobility studies from 1990 to 2020: Emerging trends and future research directions. Sustainability, 13(10), 5372.
Wardrop, N. A., Jochem, W. C., Bird, T. J., Chamberlain, H. R., Clarke, D., Kerr, D., ... & Tatem, A. J. (2018). Spatially disaggregated population estimates in the absence of national population and housing census data. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 115(14), 3529-3537.
Wei, L., Justin, C. Y., Briceno, S. I., & Mavris, D. N. (2018). Door-to-door travel time comparative assessment for conventional transportation methods and short takeoff and landing on demand mobility concepts. In 2018 Aviation Technology, Integration, and Operations Conference (p. 3055).
Wong, D. W., & Li, Y. (2020). Spreading of COVID-19: Density matters. Plos one, 15(12), e0242398.
Xiao, Y., & Watson, M. (2019). Guidance on conducting a systematic literature review. Journal of planning education and research, 39(1), 93-112.
Yang, J., Shi, Y., Yu, C., & Cao, S. J. (2020). Challenges of using mobile phone signalling data to estimate urban population density: towards smart cities and sustainable urban development. Indoor and Built Environment, 29(2), 147-150.
Yee, L. C. (2023). Impact of Air Pollution on Population Density: A Regression Analysis. Asian Journal of Research in Education and Social Sciences, 5(1), 21-29.
Yepes-Nuñez, J. J., Urrutia, G., Romero-Garcia, M., & Alonso-Fernandez, S. (2021). The PRISMA 2020 statement: an updated guideline for reporting systematic reviews. Revista espanola de cardiologia (English ed.), 74(9), 790-799.
Zhang, Q., Sun, K., Chinazzi, M., Pastore y Piontti, A., Dean, N. E., Rojas, D. P., ... & Vespignani, A. (2017). Spread of Zika virus in the Americas. Proceedings of the national academy of sciences, 114(22), E4334-E4343.
Zhou, Q., Shao, Q., Zhang, X., & Chen, J. (2020). Do housing prices promote total factor productivity? Evidence from spatial panel data models in explaining the mediating role of population density. Land Use Policy, 91, 104410.
Published
2024-03-31
How to Cite
CHIN YEE, Lee. A Systematic Literature Review on Population Density and Mobility. Asian Journal of Research in Education and Social Sciences, [S.l.], v. 6, n. 1, p. 327-337, mar. 2024. Available at: <https://myjms.mohe.gov.my/index.php/ajress/article/view/26214>. Date accessed: 25 jan. 2025.
Section
English Section