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Accurate modeling of human mobility is critical for tackling urban planning and public health challenges. In undeveloped regions, the absence of comprehensive travel surveys necessitates reconstructing mobility networks from publicly…

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Transportation companies and organizations routinely collect huge volumes of passenger transportation data. By aggregating these data (e.g., counting the number of passengers going from a place to another in every 30 minute interval), it…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-10-16 Chrysanthi Kosyfaki , Nikos Mamoulis , Reynold Cheng , Ben Kao

Human Mobility has attracted attentions from different fields of studies such as epidemic modeling, traffic engineering, traffic prediction and urban planning. In this survey we review major characteristics of human mobility studies…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-07-04 Fereshteh Asgari , Vincent Gauthier , Monique Becker

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

China's structural changes have brought new challenges to its regional employment structures, entailing labour redistribution. By now Chinese research on migration decisions with a forward-looking stand and on bilateral longitudinal…

General Economics · Economics 2022-12-26 Huaxin Wang-Lu , Octasiano Miguel Valerio Mendoza

Migration plays a crucial role in urban growth. Over time, individuals opting to relocate led to vast metropolises like London and Paris during the Industrial Revolution, Shanghai and Karachi during the last decades and thousands of smaller…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-04-03 Rafael Prieto-Curiel , Carmen Cabrera-Arnau

Evidences are presented concerning tantalizing regularities in cities' population-flows in what regards to space and time correlations. The former exhibit a distance-behavior (for large distances) compatible with the inverse square law,…

Applications · Statistics 2012-07-30 A. Hernando , A. Plastino

Socio-spatial segregation is the physical separation of different social, economic, or demographic groups within a geographic space, often resulting in unequal access to resources, services, and opportunities. The literature has…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-01-27 Yuan Liao , Jorge Gil , Sonia Yeh , Rafael H. M. Pereira , Laura Alessandretti

This article studies the Greek interregional commuting network (GRN) by using measures and methods of complex network analysis and empirical techniques. The study aims to detect structural characteristics of the commuting phenomenon, which…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-03-19 Dimitrios Tsiotas , Konstantinos Raptopoulos

Crime has been previously explained by social characteristics of the residential population and, as stipulated by crime pattern theory, might also be linked to human movements of non-residential visitors. Yet a full empirical validation of…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-04-20 Cristina Kadar , Stefan Feuerriegel , Anastasios Noulas , Cecilia Mascolo

It has been found that human mobility exhibits random patterns following the Levy flight, where human movement contains many short flights and some long flights, and these flights follow a power-law distribution. In this paper, we study the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-12-30 Linfang Tian , Kai Zhao , Jiaming Yin , Huy Vo , Weixiong Rao

The recent availability of digital traces from Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) has facilitated the study of both individual- and population-level movement with unprecedented spatiotemporal resolution, enabling us to better…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-10-10 Surendra Hazarie , Hugo Barbosa , Adam Frank , Ronaldo Menezes , Gourab Ghoshal

Increasing evidence suggests that cities are complex systems, with structural and dynamical features responsible for a broad spectrum of emerging phenomena. Here we use a unique data set of human flows and couple it with information on the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-01-22 Riccardo Gallotti , Giulia Bertagnolli , Manlio De Domenico

Uncovering human mobility patterns is of fundamental importance to the understanding of epidemic spreading, urban transportation and other socioeconomic dynamics embodying spatiality and human travel. According to the direct travel diaries…

Physics and Society · Physics 2013-09-24 Xiao-Yong Yan , Xiao-Pu Han , Bing-Hong Wang , Tao Zhou

We show here that population growth, resolved at the county level, is spatially heterogeneous both among and within the U.S. metropolitan statistical areas. Our analysis of data for over 3,100 U.S. counties reveals that annual population…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-10-11 Sandro M. Reia , P. Suresh C. Rao , Marc Barthelemy , Satish V. Ukkusuri

Motivated by recent findings that human mobility is proxy for crime behavior in big cities and that there is a superlinear relationship between the people's movement and crime, this article aims to evaluate the impact of how these findings…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-04-27 Carlos Caminha , Vasco Furtado

We explore the connection between migration patterns and emergent behaviors of evolving populations in spatially heterogeneous environments. Despite extensive studies in ecologically and medically important systems, a unifying framework…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2024-01-10 Casey O. Barkan , Shenshen Wang

Despite their importance for urban planning, traffic forecasting, and the spread of biological and mobile viruses, our understanding of the basic laws governing human motion remains limited thanks to the lack of tools to monitor the time…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-11-13 M. C. Gonzalez , C. A. Hidalgo , A. -L. Barabasi

Existing theories of migration either focus on micro- or macroscopic behavior of populations; that is, either the average behavior of entire population is modeled directly, or decisions of individuals are modeled directly. In this work, we…

Physics and Society · Physics 2013-05-10 Babak Fotouhi , Michael G. Rabbat

Human mobility studies how people move among meaningful places over time and how these movements aggregate into population-level patterns that shape accessibility, congestion, emissions, and public health. Large language models (LLMs) are…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Jie Gao , Yaoxin Wu