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In modern society, an urban agglomeration is a highly developed spatial form of integrated cities. Travel activities driven by various travel demands frequently take place within an urban agglomeration. Understanding urban agglomeration travel demand is a basic but significant task. The paper constructs spatial-temporal networks for urban agglomeration travel demand via spatial-temporal decomposition and makes explicit analyses of the attributes of the networks. Taiwan and taxi demand, which are a typical urban agglomeration and representative travel demand, respectively, are taken as the empirical objects of the study. It is found that the degree distributions of the spatial-temporal travel demand networks follow power laws, whose exponents monotonically decrease with the growth of the square cells that are used to divide an urban agglomeration to aggregate travel demand. Nevertheless, the fact of following power laws is not influenced by the spatial-temporal granularity of network construction, indicating a spatial-temporal fractal property of urban agglomeration travel demand. The findings contribute to understanding the nature of travel demand and human mobility in the scale of an urban agglomeration. (C) 2020 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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