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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

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

In animal societies as well as in human crowds, many observed collective behaviours result from self-organized processes based on local interactions among individuals. However, models of crowd dynamics are still lacking a systematic…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-09-30 Mehdi Moussaid , Dirk Helbing , Simon Garnier , Anders Johansson , Maud Combe , Guy Theraulaz

Great cities connect people; failed cities isolate people. Despite the fundamental importance of physical, face-to-face social-ties in the functioning of cities, these connectivity networks are not explicitly observed in their entirety.…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-07-21 Aaron Sim , Sophia N Yaliraki , Mauricio Barahona , Michael P H Stumpf

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

Pedestrian routing choices play a crucial role in shaping collective crowd dynamics, yet the influence of interactions among unfamiliar individuals remains poorly understood. In this study, we analyze real-world pedestrian behavior at a…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-03-25 Ziqi Wang , Alessandro Gabbana , Federico Toschi

Recent advances in data collection and technology enable a deeper understanding of complex urban commuting, yet few studies have rigorously analyzed the temporal stability and Origin-Destination (OD) heterogeneity of route choice. To…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-10-15 Yixuan Y Zheng , Hideki Takayasu , Misako Takayasu

Human crowd motion is mainly driven by self-organized processes based on local interactions among pedestrians. While most studies of crowd behavior consider only interactions among isolated individuals, it turns out that up to 70% of people…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-05-18 Mehdi Moussaid , Niriaska Perozo , Simon Garnier , Dirk Helbing , Guy Theraulaz

Identifying statistical patterns characterizing human trajectories is crucial for public health, traffic engineering, city planning, and epidemic modeling. Recent developments in global positioning systems and mobile phone networks have…

Persuasive scholarship presents how individual daily travel habits implicate congestion, environmental pollution, and the travel experience. However, the empirical characteristics and dynamics of travel habits remain poorly understood.…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-05-07 Jiwon Kim , Jonathan Corcoran

We review the research literature investigating systems in which mobile entities can carry data while they move. These entities can be either mobile by nature (e.g., human beings and animals) or mobile by design (e.g., trains, airplanes,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-06-01 Benjamin Baron , Prométhée Spathis , Marcelo Dias de Amorim , Yannis Viniotis , Mostafa H. Ammar

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

Numerous researchers have utilized GPS-enabled vehicle data and SafeGraph mobility data to analyze human movements. However, the comparison of their ability to capture human mobility remains unexplored. This study investigates differences…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Yuqin Jiang , Zhenlong Li , Joon-Seok Kim , Huan Ning , Su Yeon Han

Given the rapid recent trend of urbanization, a better understanding of how urban infrastructure mediates socioeconomic interactions and economic systems is of vital importance. While the accessibility of location-enabled devices as well as…

In the context of rapid urbanization, understanding the patterns of urban residents' activities and mobility is crucial for optimizing transportation systems and enhancing urban management efficiency. This study addresses the limitations of…

Applications · Statistics 2024-06-25 Nuoxian Huang , Yulin Wu

The rise of location positioning technologies has generated enormous volumes of digital footprints. Translating this big data into understandable trip patterns plays a crucial role in estimating infrastructure demands. Previous studies were…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2019-07-09 Bita Sadeghinasr , Armin Akhavan , Qi Wang

Urban structures encompass settlements, characterized by the spatial distribution of built-up areas, but also transportation structures, to connect these built-up areas. These two structures are very different in their origin and function,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-06-20 Frank Schweitzer , Vahan Nanumyan

Understanding how urban systems and traffic dynamics co-evolve is crucial for advancing sustainable and resilient cities. However, their bidirectional causal relationships remain underexplored due to challenges of simultaneously inferring…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-10-30 Yatao Zhang , Ye Hong , Song Gao , Martin Raubal

The era of the automobile has seriously degraded the quality of urban life through costly travel and visible environmental effects. A new urban planning paradigm must be at the heart of our roadmap for the years to come. The one where,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-07-20 Yanyan Xu , Luis E. Olmos , Sofiane Abbar , Marta C. Gonzalez

Owing to the big data the extension of physical laws on nonmaterial has seen numerous successes, and human mobility is one of the scientific frontier topics. Recent GPS technology has made it possible to trace detailed trajectories of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-03-21 Yohei Shida , Jun'ichi Ozaki , Hideki Takayasu , Misako Takayasu