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Human mobility is subject to collective dynamics that are the outcome of numerous individual choices. Smart card data which originated as a means of facilitating automated fare collections has emerged as an invaluable source for analyzing…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-08-11 Oded Cats

Human mobility is a fundamental process underpinning socioeconomic life and urban structure. Classic theories, such as egocentric activity spaces and central place theory, provide crucial insights into specific facets of movement, like…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-05-22 Lu Zhong , Lei Dong , Qi Wang , Chaoming Song , Jianxi Gao

Fundamental laws of human mobility have been extensively studied, yet we are still lacking a comprehensive understanding of the mobility patterns of sharing conveyances. Since travellers would highly probably no longer possess their own…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-02-16 Ruiqi Li , Ankang Luo , Fan Shang , Linyuan Lv , Jingfang Fan , Gang Lu , Liming Pan , Lixin Tian , H. Eugene Stanley

The recent availability of digital traces generated by phone calls and online logins has significantly increased the scientific understanding of human mobility. Until now, however, limited data resolution and coverage have hindered a…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-03-20 Laura Alessandretti , Piotr Sapiezynski , Sune Lehmann , Andrea Baronchelli

Understanding individual mobility behavior is critical for modeling urban transportation. It provides deeper insights on the generative mechanisms of human movements. Emerging data sources such as mobile phone call detail records, social…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-10-21 Jiechao Zhang , Samiul Hasan , Xuedong Yan , Xiaobing Liu

The recent availability of large databases allows to study macroscopic properties of many complex systems. However, inferring a model from a fit of empirical data without any knowledge of the dynamics might lead to erroneous interpretations…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-08-31 Riccardo Gallotti , Armando Bazzani , Sandro Rambaldi , Marc Barthelemy

Trip distribution laws are basic for the travel demand characterization needed in transport and urban planning. Several approaches have been considered in the last years. One of them is the so-called gravity law, in which the number of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-01-19 Maxime Lenormand , Aleix Bassolas , José J. Ramasco

It has been found that human mobility exhibits random patterns following the Levy flight, where human movement contains many short flights and some long flights, and these flights follow a power-law distribution. In this paper, we study the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-12-30 Linfang Tian , Kai Zhao , Jiaming Yin , Huy Vo , Weixiong Rao

The metaverse promises a shift in the way humans interact with each other, and with their digital and physical environments. The lack of geographical boundaries and travel costs in the metaverse prompts us to ask if the fundamental laws…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-04-05 Kishore Vasan , Marton Karsai , Albert-Laszlo Barabasi

Human mobility is influenced by environmental change and natural disasters. Researchers have used trip distance distribution, radius of gyration of movements, and individuals' visited locations to understand and capture human mobility…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-06-18 Qi Wang , John E. Taylor

Flight delay happens every day in airports all over the world. However, systemic investigation in large scales remains a challenge. We collect primary data of domestic departure records from Bureau of Transportation Statistics of United…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-05-12 Yan-Jun Wang , Ya-Kun Cao , Chen-Ping Zhu , Fan Wu , Ming-Hua Hu , Baruch Barzel , H. E. Stanley

In the advent of a pervasive presence of location sharing services researchers gained an unprecedented access to the direct records of human activity in space and time. This paper analyses geo-located Twitter messages in order to uncover…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-03-03 Bartosz Hawelka , Izabela Sitko , Euro Beinat , Stanislav Sobolevsky , Pavlos Kazakopoulos , Carlo Ratti

Among the realistic ingredients to be considered in the computational modeling of infectious diseases, human mobility represents a crucial challenge both on the theoretical side and in view of the limited availability of empirical data. In…

Physics and Society · Physics 2010-02-04 Duygu Balcan , Vittoria Colizza , Bruno Goncalves , Hao Hu , Jose J. Ramasco , Alessandro Vespignani

The city is a complex system that evolves through its inherent social and economic interactions. Mediating the movements of people and resources, urban street networks offer a spatial footprint of these activities; consequently their…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-04-19 Minjin Lee , Hugo Barbosa , Hyejin Youn , Petter Holme , Gourab Ghoshal

Recent research highlighted the scaling property of human and animal mobility. An interesting issue is that the exponents of scaling law for animals and humans in different situations are quite different. This paper proposes a general…

Biological Physics · Physics 2011-11-01 Yanqing Hu , Jiang Zhang , Di Huan , Zengru Di

A new model, called "Human Dynamics", has been recently proposed that individuals execute activities based on a perceived priority of tasks, which can be characterized by a power-law distribution of waiting time between consecutive tasks…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2019-11-05 Jonathan J. H. Zhu , Tai-Quan Peng

Human migration is a type of human mobility, where a trip involves a person moving with the intention of changing their home location. Predicting human migration as accurately as possible is important in city planning applications,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-11-16 Caleb Robinson , Bistra Dilkina

This paper presents an evolution model of weighted networks in which the structural growth and weight dynamics are driven by human behavior, i.e. passenger route choice behavior. Transportation networks grow due to people's increasing…

Physics and Society · Physics 2007-09-27 Yihong Hu , Daoli Zhu , Nianqu Zhu

In this paper we deal with the study of travel flows and patterns of people in large populated areas. Information about the movements of people is extracted from coarse-grained aggregated cellular network data without tracking mobile…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-07-20 Caterina Balzotti , Andrea Bragagnini , Maya Briani , Emiliano Cristiani

Crime has been previously explained by social characteristics of the residential population and, as stipulated by crime pattern theory, might also be linked to human movements of non-residential visitors. Yet a full empirical validation of…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-04-20 Cristina Kadar , Stefan Feuerriegel , Anastasios Noulas , Cecilia Mascolo