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We develop new methodology to improve our understanding of the causal effects of multivariate air pollution exposures on public health. Typically, exposure to air pollution for an individual is measured at their home geographic region,…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-11-18 Heejun Shin , Danielle Braun , Kezia Irene , Michelle Audirac , Joseph Antonelli

As a significant factor in urban planning, traffic forecasting and prediction of epidemics, modeling patterns of human mobility draws intensive attention from researchers for decades. Power-law distribution and its variations are observed…

Physics and Society · Physics 2014-10-28 Xiao Liang , Xudong Zheng , Weifeng Lv , Tongyu Zhu , Ke Xu

Migration's impact spans various social dimensions, including demography, sustainability, politics, economy and gender disparities. Yet, the decision-making process behind migrants choosing their destination remains elusive. Existing models…

Human movements in the real world and in cyberspace affect not only dynamical processes such as epidemic spreading and information diffusion but also social and economical activities such as urban planning and personalized recommendation in…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-06-22 Yi-Ming Zhao , An Zeng , Xiao-Yong Yan , Wen-Xu Wang , Ying-Cheng Lai

This article studies the Greek interregional commuting network (GRN) by using measures and methods of complex network analysis and empirical techniques. The study aims to detect structural characteristics of the commuting phenomenon, which…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-03-19 Dimitrios Tsiotas , Konstantinos Raptopoulos

The movement of pedestrians is supposed to show certain regularities which can be best described by an ``algorithm'' for the individual behavior and is easily simulated on computers. This behavior is assumed to be determined by an intended…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Dirk Helbing

Many aspects of life are associated with places of human mobility patterns and nowadays we are facing an increase in the pervasiveness of mobile devices these individuals carry. Positioning technologies that serve these devices such as the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-26 Thiago Andrade , Brais Cancela , João Gama

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

Large-scale human mobility data is a key resource in data-driven policy making and across many scientific fields. Most recently, mobility data was extensively used during the COVID-19 pandemic to study the effects of governmental policies…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-12-24 Frank Schlosser , Vedran Sekara , Dirk Brockmann , Manuel Garcia-Herranz

Monitoring urban structure and development requires high-quality data at high spatiotemporal resolution. While traditional censuses have provided foundational insights into demographic and socioeconomic aspects of urban life, their pace may…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-03-20 Gezhi Xiu , Jianying Wang , Thilo Gross , Mei-Po Kwan , Xia Peng , Yu Liu

Human mobility has been empirically observed to exhibit Levy flight characteristics and behaviour with power-law distributed jump size. The fundamental mechanisms behind this behaviour has not yet been fully explained. In this paper, we…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-02-03 Kai Zhao , Mirco Musolesi , Pan Hui , Weixiong Rao , Sasu Tarkoma

The precise prediction of human mobility has produced significant socioeconomic impacts, such as location recommendations and evacuation suggestions. However, existing methods suffer from limited generalization capability: unimodal…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Junshu Dai , Yu Wang , Tongya Zheng , Wei Ji , Qinghong Guo , Ji Cao , Jie Song , Canghong Jin , Mingli Song

Quantification of the overall characteristics of urban mobility using coarse-grained methods is crucial for urban management, planning and sustainable development. Although some recent studies have provided quantification methods for…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-08-03 Hao Wang , Pengjun Zhao , Xiao-Yong Yan

Researches on the human mobility have made great progress in many aspects, but the long-term and long-distance migration behavior is lack of in-depth and extensive research because of the difficult in accessing to household data. In this…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-03-27 Qi Nie , Jian-Jun Wu , Xiao-Yong Yan , Jin-Hu Liu , Jun Wang

Territorial subdivisions and geographic borders are essential for understanding phenomena in sociology, political science, history, and economics. They influence the interregional flow of information and cross-border trade and affect the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-03-19 Daniel Grady , Rafael Brune , Christian Thiemann , Fabian Theis , Dirk Brockmann

Individual-level human mobility prediction has emerged as a significant topic of research with applications in infectious disease monitoring, child, and elderly care. Existing studies predominantly focus on the microscopic aspects of human…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Yueyang Liu , Lance Kennedy , Ruochen Kong , Joon-Seok Kim , Andreas Züfle

Since users move around based on social relationships and interests, the resulting movement patterns can represent how nodes are socially connected (i.e., nodes with strong social ties, nodes that meet occasionally by sharing the same…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-08-01 Waldir Moreira , Paulo Mendes

Epidemics are emergent phenomena depending on the epidemiological characteristics of pathogens and the interaction and movement of people. Public transit systems have provided much important information about the movement of people, but…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-09-24 Zhanwei Du , Chao Gao , Yuan Bai , Yongjian Yang , Petter Holme

Random walks on graphs are widely used in all sciences to describe a great variety of phenomena where dynamical random processes are affected by topology. In recent years, relevant mathematical results have been obtained in this field, and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 R. Burioni , D. Cassi

We present a strategy capable of describing basic features of the dynamics of crowds. The behaviour of the crowd is considered from a twofold perspective. We examine both the large scale behaviour of the crowd, and phenomena happening at…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-08-09 Joep Evers