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As lockdowns and stay-at-home orders start to be lifted across the globe, governments are struggling to establish effective and practical guidelines to reopen their economies. In dense urban environments with people returning to work and…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-09-28 Wei Chien Benny Chin , Roland Bouffanais

Studies using massive, passively data collected from communication technologies have revealed many ubiquitous aspects of social networks, helping us understand and model social media, information diffusion, and organizational dynamics. More…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-02-04 Jameson L. Toole , Carlos Herrera-Yague , Christian M. Schneider , Marta C. Gonzalez

Scramble intersections stand as compelling examples of complex systems, shedding light on the pressing challenge of urban mobility. In this paper, we introduce a model aimed at unraveling the statistical intricacies of pedestrian crossing…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-10-04 Eduardo V. Stock , Roberto da Silva

Characterizing human mobility patterns is essential for understanding human behaviors and the interactions with socioeconomic and natural environment. With the continuing advancement of location and Web 2.0 technologies, location-based…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-04-14 Feixiong Luo , Guofeng Cao , Kevin Mulligan , Xiang Li

With the wide adoption of the multi-community setting in many popular social media platforms, the increasing user engagements across multiple online communities warrant research attention. In this paper, we introduce a novel analogy between…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-03-23 Tianran Hu , Jiebo Luo , Wei Liu

Suppose $A$ and $B$ are two stations within the mass rapid transit network of a city. Both stations see approximately the same average daily number of passengers entering and exiting their gates. However, passengers are evenly distributed…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-10-05 Carmen Cabrera-Arnau , Liang Wei Ng , Howard Wong , Chen Zhong

The analysis of longitudinal travel data enables investigating how mobility patterns vary across the population and identify the spatial properties thereof. The objective of this study is to identify the extent to which users explore…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-07-01 Oded Cats , Francesco Ferranti

We study spatiotemporal correlations and temporal diversities of handset-based service usages by analyzing a dataset that includes detailed information about locations and service usages of 124 users over 16 months. By constructing the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2012-11-07 Hang-Hyun Jo , Márton Karsai , Juuso Karikoski , Kimmo Kaski

Social networks are getting closer to our real physical world. People share the exact location and time of their check-ins and are influenced by their friends. Modeling the spatio-temporal behavior of users in social networks is of great…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-04-11 Ali Zarezade , Sina Jafarzadeh , Hamid R. Rabiee

This study models and examines commuter's preferences for short-distance transportation modes, namely: walking, taking a bus or riding a metro. It is used a unique dataset from a large-scale field experiment in Singapore that provides rich…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-02-22 Francisco Benita , Garvit Bansal , Georgios Piliouras , Bige Tunçer

Shifting travel from private cars to public transport is critical for meeting climate and related mobility goals, yet passengers will only choose transit if it offers a consistently positive experience. Previous studies of passenger…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Esther Bosch , Michael Scholz , Anke Sauerländer-Biebl , Klas Ihme

Bikesharing schemes are transportation systems that not only provide an efficient mode of transportation in congested urban areas, but also improve last-mile connectivity with public transportation and local accessibility. Bikesharing…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-06-06 Fernando Munoz-Mendez , Konstantin Klemmer , Ke Han , Stephen Jarvis

In this paper we revisit the concept of mobility entropy. Over time, the structure of spatial interactions among urban centres tends to become more complex and evolves from centralised models to more scattered origin and destination…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-06-30 Valentina Marin , Carlos Molinero , Elsa Arcaute

As a newly-emerging travel mode in the era of mobile internet, ride-hailing that connects passengers with private-car drivers via an online platform has been very popular all over the world. Although it attracts much attention in both…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-04-13 Zhengbing He

Understanding human mobility is essential for applications ranging from urban planning to public health. Traditional mobility models such as flow networks and colocation matrices capture only pairwise interactions between discrete…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Prathyush Sambaturu , Bernardo Gutierrez , Moritz U. G. Kraemer

The relationship between urban mobility, social networks and socioeconomic status is complex and difficult to apprehend, notably due to the lack of data. Here we use mobile phone data to analyze the socioeconomic structure of spatial and…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-01-31 Maxime Lenormand , Horacio Samaniego

Realistic mobility models are fundamental to evaluate the performance of protocols in mobile ad hoc networks. Unfortunately, there are no mobility models that capture the non-homogeneous behaviors in both space and time commonly found in…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2008-10-23 Wei-jen Hsu , Thrasyvoulos Spyropoulos , Konstantinos Psounis , Ahmed Helmy

Human mobility, a pivotal aspect of urban dynamics, displays a profound and multifaceted relationship with urban sustainability. Despite considerable efforts analyzing mobility patterns over decades, the ranking dynamics of urban mobility…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-03-12 Hao Wang

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

Understanding the morphology of an urban system is an important step toward unveiling the dynamical processes of its growth and development. At the foundation of every urban system, transportation system is undeniably a crucial component in…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-04-23 Hoai Nguyen Huynh , Evgeny Makarov , Erika Fille Legara , Christopher Monterola , Lock Yue Chew