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Understanding the spatiotemporal distribution of people within a city is crucial to many planning applications. Obtaining data to create required knowledge, currently involves costly survey methods. At the same time ubiquitous mobile…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2012-07-06 Jameson L. Toole , Michael Ulm , Dietmar Bauer , Marta C. Gonzalez

The vast majority of travel takes place within cities. Recently, new data has become available which allows for the discovery of urban mobility patterns which differ from established results about long distance travel. Specifically, the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2014-10-28 Xiao Liang , Jichang Zhao , Li Dong , Ke Xu

We present new empirical evidence, based on millions of interactions on Twitter, confirming that human contacts scale with population sizes. We integrate such observations into a reaction-diffusion metapopulation framework providing an…

Physics and Society · Physics 2014-11-27 Michele Tizzoni , Kaiyuan Sun , Diego Benusiglio , Márton Karsai , Nicola Perra

Scale invariance property in the global geometry of Earth may lead to a coupled interactive behaviour between various components of the climate system. One of the most interesting correlations exists between spatial statistics of the global…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2016-09-29 Bijan Fallah , Abbas Ali Saberi , Sahar Sodoudi

Human mobility clustering is an important problem for understanding human mobility behaviors (e.g., work and school commutes). Existing methods typically contain two steps: choosing or learning a mobility representation and applying a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-23 Haoji Hu , Haowen Lin , Yao-Yi Chiang

Human mobility analysis at urban-scale requires models to represent the complex nature of human movements, which in turn are affected by accessibility to nearby points of interest, underlying socioeconomic factors of a place, and local…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-04-07 Sinjini Mitra , Anuj Srivastava , Avipsa Roy , Pavan Turaga

Despite the rapid growth of cities in the past century, our quantitative, in-depth understanding of how cities grow remains limited due to a consistent lack of historical data. Thus, the scaling laws between a city's features and its…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-12-18 Keith Burghardt , Johannes H. Uhl , Kristina Lerman , Stefan Leyk

Predictive models for human mobility have important applications in many fields such as traffic control, ubiquitous computing and contextual advertisement. The predictive performance of models in literature varies quite broadly, from as…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2016-08-08 Andrea Cuttone , Sune Lehmann , Marta C. González

Modeling how human moves in the space is useful for policy-making in transportation, public safety, and public health. Human movements can be viewed as a dynamic process that human transits between states (\eg, locations) over time. In the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-03-24 Hua Wei , Dongkuan Xu , Junjie Liang , Zhenhui Li

Nighttime lights satellite imagery has been used for decades as a uniform, global source of data for studying a wide range of socioeconomic factors. Recently, another more terrestrial source is producing data with similarly uniform global…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-03-18 Brian Dickinson , Gourab Ghoshal , Xerxes Dotiwalla , Adam Sadilek , Henry Kautz

Gyration radius of individual's trajectory plays a key role in quantifying human mobility patterns. Of particular interests, empirical analyses suggest that the growth of gyration radius is slow versus time except the very early stage and…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-05-20 Xiao-Yong Yan , Xiao-Pu Han , Tao Zhou , Bing-Hong Wang

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 mobility, enabled by diverse transportation modes, is fundamental to urban functionality. Studying these movements across scales-from microscopic to macroscopic-yields valuable insights into urban dynamics. Local adaptation and…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-05-21 Babak Benam , Abolfazl Ramezanpour

We investigate a model for spatial epidemics explicitly taking into account bi-directional movements between base and destination locations on individual mobility networks. We provide a systematic analysis of generic dynamical features of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2012-03-07 Vitaly Belik , Theo Geisel , Dirk Brockmann

Different collective behaviors emerging from the unknown have been examined in networks of mobile agents in recent years. Mobile systems, far from being limited to modeling and studying various natural and artificial systems in motion and…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2025-06-25 Venceslas Nguefoue Meli , Thierry Njougouo , Steve J. Kongni , Patrick Louodop , Hilaire Bertrand Fotsin , Hilda A. Cerdeira

Human movements in the workspace usually have non-negligible relations with air quality parameters (e.g., CO$_2$, PM2.5, and PM10). We establish a system to monitor indoor human mobility with air quality and assess the interrelationship…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Kyle K. Qin , Mohammad S. Rahaman , Yongli Ren , Chi-Tsun Cheng , Ivan Cole , Flora D. Salim

The prevalence of many urban phenomena changes systematically with population size. We propose a theory that unifies models of economic complexity and cultural evolution to derive urban scaling. The theory accounts for the difference in…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-12-28 Andres Gomez-Lievano , Oscar Patterson-Lomba , Ricardo Hausmann

The dynamics of human mobility characterizes the trajectories humans follow during their daily activities and is the foundation of processes from epidemic spreading to traffic prediction and information recommendation. In this paper, we…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-06-16 Zhi-Dan Zhao , Shi-Min Cai , Yang Lu

We have examined the electrical transport in disordered molecular solids. It has been found that mobility is a function of electric field and temperature due to hopping conduction. Several theoretical models for charge transport in…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Ajit Kumar Mahapatro , Subhasis Ghosh

Capturing human mobility is essential for modeling how people interact with and move through physical spaces, reflecting social behavior, access to resources, and dynamic spatial patterns. To support scalable and transferable analysis…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Mohammad Hashemi , Andreas Zufle
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