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Detection of spatial clusters among geographic events in a planar space often fails in real world practices. For example, events in urban areas often occurred on or along streets. In those cases, objects and their movements were limited to the street network in the urban area. This deviated from what a set of freely located points could represent. Consequently, many of the spatial analytic tools would likely produce biased results. To reflect this limitation, we developed a new approach, weighted network Voronoi diagrams, to modeling spatial patterns of geographic events on street networks whose street segments can be weighted based on their roles in the events. Using kernel density estimation and local Moran’s index statistics, the frequency of events occurring on a street segment can be used to produce a weight to associate with the street segment. The weights can then be normalized using a predefined set of …