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Human mobility patterns refer to the regularities and trends in the way people move, travel, or navigate through different geographical locations over time. Detecting human mobility patterns is essential for a variety of applications,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Yisheng Alison Zheng , Abdallah Lakhdari , Amani Abusafia , Shing Tai Tony Lui , Athman Bouguettaya

Understanding human mobility is crucial for applications such as forecasting epidemic spreading, planning transport infrastructure and urbanism in general. While, traditionally, mobility information has been collected via surveys, the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-09-02 Mattia Mazzoli , Alex Molas , Aleix Bassolas , Maxime Lenormand , Pere Colet , Jose J. Ramasco

With increasing availability of smartphones with GPS capabilities, large-scale studies relating individual-level mobility patterns to a wide variety of patient-centered outcomes, from mood disorders to surgical recovery, are becoming a…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-04-20 Ian Barnett , Jukka-Pekka Onnela

The identification of urban mobility patterns is very important for predicting and controlling spatial events. In this study, we analyzed millions of geographical check-ins crawled from a leading Chinese location-based social networking…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-01-03 Zimo Yang , Defu Lian , Nicholas Jing Yuan , Xing Xie , Yong Rui , Tao Zhou

In the era of mobile computing, understanding human mobility patterns is crucial in order to better design protocols and applications. Many studies focus on different aspects of human mobility such as people's points of interests, routes,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-12-16 Ivan Oliveira Nunes , Pedro O. S. Vaz de Melo , Antonio A. F. Loureiro

Today's societies are enveloped in an ever-growing telecommunication infrastructure. This infrastructure offers important opportunities for sensing and recording a multitude of human behaviors. Human mobility patterns are a prominent…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2016-10-18 Piotr Sapiezynski , Arkadiusz Stopczynski , David Kofoed Wind , Jure Leskovec , Sune Lehmann

Predicting human mobility is crucial for urban planning, traffic control, and emergency response. Mobility behaviors can be categorized into individual and collective, and these behaviors are recorded by diverse mobility data, such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Qingyue Long , Yuan Yuan , Yong Li

Electronic communication records provide detailed information about temporal aspects of human interaction. Previous studies have shown that individuals' communication patterns have complex temporal structure, and that this structure has…

Physics and Society · Physics 2014-03-05 Lauri Kovanen , Kimmo Kaski , János Kertész , Jari Saramäki

The preponderance of connected devices provides unprecedented opportunities for fine-grained monitoring of the public infrastructure. However while classical models expect high quality application-specific data streams, the promise of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-06 Baoyang Song , Hasan Poonawala , Laura Wynter , Sebastien Blandin

The increasing popularity of cell phones has made them the most personal and ubiquitous communication devices nowadays. Typically, the ringing notifications of mobile phones are used to inform the users about the incoming calls. However,…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2018-10-26 Iqbal H. Sarker

Cities are typical dynamic complex systems that connect people and facilitate interactions. Revealing universal collective patterns behind spatio-temporal interactions between residents is crucial for various urban studies, of which we are…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-06-11 Chenxin Liu , Yu Yang , Bingsheng Chen , Tianyu Cui , Fan Shang , Jingfang Fan , Ruiqi Li

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

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

Inferring sociodemographic attributes from mobility data could help transportation planners better leverage passively collected datasets, but this task remains difficult due to weak and inconsistent relationships between mobility patterns…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Ekin Uğurel , Cynthia Chen , Brian H. Y. Lee , Filipe Rodrigues

It is often necessary to introduce the main characteristics of population mobility dynamics to model critical social phenomena such as the economy, violence, transmission of information, or infectious diseases. In this work, we focus on…

In forensic investigations it is often of value to establish whether two phones were used by the same person during a given time period. We present a method that uses time and location of cell tower registrations of mobile phones to assess…

In this chapter, we discuss urban mobility from a complexity science perspective. First, we give an overview of the datasets that enable this approach, such as mobile phone records, location-based social network traces, or GPS trajectories…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-06-23 Laura Alessandretti , Michael Szell

The aim of this paper is to solve an inverse problem which regards a mass moving in a bounded domain. We assume that the mass moves following an unknown velocity field and that the evolution of the mass density can be described by partial…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-06-04 Alessandro Alla , Caterina Balzotti , Maya Briani , Emiliano Cristiani

Understanding the patterns of human mobility between cities has various applications from transport engineering to spatial modeling of the spreading of contagious diseases. We adopt a city-centric, data-driven perspective to quantify such…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-12-02 Maryam Kiashemshaki , Zhiren Huang , Jari Saramäki

Commuting is a key mechanism that governs the dynamics of cities. Despite its importance, very little is known of the properties and mechanisms underlying this crucial urban process. Here, we capitalize on $\sim$ 50 million individuals'…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-04-28 Lei Dong , Paolo Santi , Yu Liu , Siqi Zheng , Carlo Ratti