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The massive amounts of geolocation data collected from mobile phone records has sparked an ongoing effort to understand and predict the mobility patterns of human beings. In this work, we study the extent to which social phenomena are…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-11-18 Nicolas Ponieman , Alejo Salles , Carlos Sarraute

In recent years, we have seen scientists attempt to model and explain human dynamics and, in particular, human movement. Many aspects of our complex life are affected by human movements such as disease spread and epidemics modeling, city…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-11-05 Hugo Barbosa , Fernando Buarque de Lima Neto , Alexandre Evsukoff , Ronaldo Menezes

Modeling of human mobility is critical to address questions in urban planning and transportation, as well as global challenges in sustainability, public health, and economic development. However, our understanding and ability to model…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-08-01 Oriol Cabanas-Tirapu , Lluís Danús , Esteban Moro , Marta Sales-Pardo , Roger Guimerà

In this paper, we present a comprehensive survey of human-mobility modeling based on 1680 articles published between 1999 and 2019, which can serve as a roadmap for research and practice in this area. Mobility modeling research has…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-06-19 Vaibhav Kulkarni , Benoit Garbinato

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

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

Human mobility is a fundamental process underpinning socioeconomic life and urban structure. Classic theories, such as egocentric activity spaces and central place theory, provide crucial insights into specific facets of movement, like…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-05-22 Lu Zhong , Lei Dong , Qi Wang , Chaoming Song , Jianxi Gao

With growing numbers of intelligent autonomous systems in human environments, the ability of such systems to perceive, understand and anticipate human behavior becomes increasingly important. Specifically, predicting future positions of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-07-27 Andrey Rudenko , Luigi Palmieri , Michael Herman , Kris M. Kitani , Dariu M. Gavrila , Kai O. Arras

Human mobility research concerns spatiotemporal individual and population movement. Accurate modeling and prediction of human mobility can provide opportunities to monitor, manage and optimize human movement for improved social-economic…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Liantao Li , Yang Yang

Research into, and design and construction of mobile systems and algorithms requires access to large-scale mobility data. Unfortunately, the wireless and mobile research community lacks such data. For instance, the largest available human…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2009-09-21 Pan Hui , Richard Mortier , Tristan Henderson , Jon Crowcroft

In this work, we develop a mathematical model to describe the local movement of individuals by taking into account their return to home after a period of travel. We provide a suitable functional framework to handle this system and study the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-01-19 Arnaud Ducrot , Pierre Magal

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

We provide a brief review of human mobility science and present three key areas where we expect to see substantial advancements. We start from the mind and discuss the need to better understand how spatial cognition shapes mobility…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-08-02 Luca Pappalardo , Ed Manley , Vedran Sekara , Laura Alessandretti

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

The study of human mobility patterns is a crucially important research field for its impact on several socio-economic aspects and, in particular, the measure of regularity patters of human mobility can provide a across-the-board view of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-04-20 Fabio Vanni , David Lambert

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

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

Accurate modelling of local population movement patterns is a core contemporary concern for urban policymakers, affecting both the short term deployment of public transport resources and the longer term planning of transport infrastructure.…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-05-21 Chico Q. Camargo , Jonathan Bright , Scott A. Hale

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

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