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The stochastic trajectories of molecules in living cells, as well as the dynamics in many other complex systems, often exhibit memory in their path over long periods of time. In addition, these systems can show dynamic heterogeneities due…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-07-10 Michał Balcerek , Agnieszka Wyłomańska , Krzysztof Burnecki , Ralf Metzler , Diego Krapf

Cellular phones are now offering an ubiquitous means for scientists to observe life: how people act, move and respond to external influences. They can be utilized as measurement devices of individual persons and for groups of people of the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-06-12 Shao-Meng Qin , Hannu Verkasalo , Mikael Mohtaschemi , Tuomo Hartonen , Mikko Alava

The statistical properties of human mobility have been studied in the framework of complex systems physics. Taking advantage from the new datasets made available by the information and communication technologies, the distributions of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-10-03 Chiara Mizzi , Alessandro Fabbri , Giulio Colombini , Flavio Bertini , Armando Bazzani

This paper develops a macroscopic, activity-based model of urban active mobility using nonintrusive sensor data. It introduces attendance functions to describe spatio-temporal travel patterns between activities and formulates the…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-05-14 Romain Azaïs , Adrien Marion , Florian Patout

According to personality psychology, personality traits determine many aspects of human behaviour. However, validating this insight in large groups has been challenging so far, due to the scarcity of multi-channel data. Here, we focus on…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-11-12 Laura Alessandretti , Sune Lehmann , Andrea Baronchelli

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

Human mobility describes physical patterns of movement of people within a spatial system. Many of these patterns, including daily commuting, are cyclic and quantifiable. These patterns capture physical phenomena tied to processes studied in…

Applications · Statistics 2023-01-10 Michael J. Kane , Owais Gilani , Simon Urbanek

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

Elastic confinements are an important component of many biological systems and dictate the transport properties of suspended particles under flow. In this chapter, we review the Brownian motion of a particle moving in the vicinity of a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-10-28 Abdallah Daddi-Moussa-Ider , Stephan Gekle

We apply a simple clustering algorithm to a large dataset of cellular telecommunication records, reducing the complexity of mobile phone users' full trajectories and allowing for simple statistics to characterize their properties. For the…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2009-11-05 James P. Bagrow , Tal Koren

The burgeoning availability of sensing technology and location-based data is driving the expansion of analysis of human mobility networks in science and engineering research, as well as in epidemic forecasting and mitigation, urban…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-05-02 Chia-Wei Hsu , Chenyue Liu , Kiet Minh Nguyen , Yu-Heng Chien , Ali Mostafavi

We consider a one-dimensional Brownian motion of fixed duration $T$. Using a path-integral technique, we compute exactly the probability distribution of the difference $\tau=t_{\min}-t_{\max}$ between the time $t_{\min}$ of the global…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-05-13 Francesco Mori , Satya N. Majumdar , Gregory Schehr

We study the statistical properties of the area and the absolute area under the trajectories of subdiffusive random walks. Using different frameworks to describe subdiffusion (as the scaled Brownian motion, fractional Brownian motion, the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-02-05 Vicenç Méndez , Rosa Flaquer-Galmés , Javier Cristín

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

The interaction of all mobile species with their environment hinges on their movement patterns: the places they visit and how frequently they go there. In human society, where the prevalent form of cohabitation is in cities, the highly…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-02-17 Markus Schläpfer , Michael Szell , Hadrien Salat , Carlo Ratti , Geoffrey B. West

Knowing "what is happening" and "what will happen" of the mobility in a city is the building block of a data-driven smart city system. In recent years, mobility digital twin that makes a virtual replication of human mobility and predicting…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-07-11 Zipei Fan , Xiaojie Yang , Wei Yuan , Renhe Jiang , Quanjun Chen , Xuan Song , Ryosuke Shibasaki

In the past decade, large scale mobile phone data have become available for the study of human movement patterns. These data hold an immense promise for understanding human behavior on a vast scale, and with a precision and accuracy never…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-02-17 Nathalie E. Williams , Timothy A. Thomas , Matthew Dunbar , Nathan Eagle , Adrian Dobra

Understanding the patterns of mobility of individuals is crucial for a number of reasons, from city planning to disaster management. There are two common ways of quantifying the amount of travel between locations: by direct observations…

Physics and Society · Physics 2014-08-25 Vasyl Palchykov , Marija Mitrović , Hang-Hyun Jo , Jari Saramäki , Raj Kumar Pan

This is a brief survey of the research performed by Grandata Labs in collaboration with numerous academic groups around the world on the topic of human mobility. A driving theme in these projects is to use and improve Data Science…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-02-27 Carlos Sarraute , Martin Minnoni

Mobile phone data has enabled the timely and fine-grained study human mobility. Call Detail Records, generated at call events, allow building descriptions of mobility at different resolutions and with different spatial, temporal and social…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-03-17 David Pastor-Escuredo , Enrique Frias-Martinez