Urban Gravity: a Model for Intercity Telecommunication Flows

G. Krings; F. Calabrese; C. Ratti; V. D. Blondel

doi:10.1088/1742-5468/2009/07/L07003

Urban Gravity: a Model for Intercity Telecommunication Flows

Physics and Society 2015-05-13 v2

Authors: G. Krings , F. Calabrese , C. Ratti , V. D. Blondel

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Abstract

We analyze the anonymous communication patterns of 2.5 million customers of a Belgian mobile phone operator. Grouping customers by billing address, we build a social network of cities, that consists of communications between 571 cities in Belgium. We show that inter-city communication intensity is characterized by a gravity model: the communication intensity between two cities is proportional to the product of their sizes divided by the square of their distance.

Keywords

urban complex networks

Cite

@article{arxiv.0905.0692,
  title  = {Urban Gravity: a Model for Intercity Telecommunication Flows},
  author = {G. Krings and F. Calabrese and C. Ratti and V. D. Blondel},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0905.0692},
  year   = {2015}
}

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