A case study on inter-building occupancy using GIS- based movement data on Campus

Research on the impact of occupant behavior (OB) on energy use at various spatiotemporal resolutions in the district/community/urban scale remains limited and should be explored for district operational management and energy system optimization. This paper focuses on the inter-building occupancy on the district scale and conducts a case study for a campus in the suburbs of Shanghai. Using geographic information system (GIS)-based Time Use Survey (TUS) data from hundreds of sample students, five inter-building movement patterns are extracted by K-means clustering, corresponding to five study-life styles of students in the selected campus. The demographic of study-life styles demonstrates that the diversity of inter-building movement is considerable on the campus scale and identical schedules suggested by current domestic building design standards need to be improved and expanded. © 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.