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Understanding human mobility patterns -- how people move in their everyday lives -- is an interdisciplinary research field. It is a question with roots back to the 19th century that has been dramatically revitalized with the recent increase…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-02-08 Minjin Lee , Petter Holme

Our understanding of gender differences in mobility is marked by a clear tension: surveys portray women's movements as more complex than men's, while digital traces suggest less diverse travel. Here, we resolve the contradiction by modeling…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-04-02 Sílvia de Sojo , Sune Lehmann , Laura Alessandretti

We analyze a large-scale mobile phone call dataset containing information on the age, gender, and billing locality of users to get insight into social closeness in pairs of individuals of similar age. We show that in addition to using the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-08-08 Mikaela Irene D. Fudolig , Daniel Monsivais , Kunal Bhattacharya , Hang-Hyun Jo , Kimmo Kaski

Humans follow circadian rhythms, visible in their activity levels as well as physiological and psychological factors. Such rhythms are also visible in electronic communication records, where the aggregated activity levels of e.g. mobile…

Circadian rhythms are known to be important drivers of human activity and the recent availability of electronic records of human behaviour has provided fine-grained data of temporal patterns of activity on a large scale. Further,…

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

Recent developments in sensing technologies have enabled us to examine the nature of human social behavior in greater detail. By applying an information theoretic method to the spatiotemporal data of cell-phone locations, [C. Song et al.…

Physics and Society · Physics 2011-10-04 Taro Takaguchi , Mitsuhiro Nakamura , Nobuo Sato , Kazuo Yano , Naoki Masuda

Understanding how humans use and consume space by comparing stratified groups, either through observation or controlled study, is key to designing better spaces, cities, and policies. GPS data traces provide detailed movement patterns of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-02-20 Rui Zhang , Kevin G. Stanley , Daniel Fuller , Scott Bell

Human mobility data are fused with multiple travel patterns and hidden spatiotemporal patterns are extracted by integrating user, location, and time information to improve next location prediction accuracy. In existing next location…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Xiaojie Yang , Zipei Fan , Hangli Ge , Takashi Michikata , Ryosuke Shibasaki , Noboru Koshizuka

Much of economic theory is built on observations of aggregate, rather than individual, behavior. Here, we present novel findings on human shopping patterns at the resolution of a single purchase. Our results suggest that much of our…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2013-04-23 Coco Krumme , Manuel Cebrian , Alex Pentland

Despite the growing popularity of human mobility studies that collect GPS location data, the problem of determining the minimum required length of GPS monitoring has not been addressed in the current statistical literature. In this paper we…

Other Statistics · Statistics 2019-08-28 Zhihang Dong , Yen-Chi Chen , Adrian Dobra

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

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

A cornerstone of human statistical learning is the ability to extract temporal regularities / patterns from random sequences. Here we present a method of computing pattern time statistics with generating functions for first-order Markov…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2018-06-29 Yanlong Sun , Hongbin Wang

Human mobility is a key factor in spatial disease dynamics and related phenomena. In computational models host mobility is typically modelled by diffusion in space or on metapolulation networks. Alternatively, an effective force of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2012-03-07 Vitaly Belik , Theo Geisel , Dirk Brockmann

Users form information trails as they browse the web, checkin with a geolocation, rate items, or consume media. A common problem is to predict what a user might do next for the purposes of guidance, recommendation, or prefetching.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-04-21 Tao Wu , David Gleich

Gyration radius of individual's trajectory plays a key role in quantifying human mobility patterns. Of particular interests, empirical analyses suggest that the growth of gyration radius is slow versus time except the very early stage and…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-05-20 Xiao-Yong Yan , Xiao-Pu Han , Tao Zhou , Bing-Hong Wang

Ubiquitous mobile devices are generating vast amounts of location-based service data that reveal how individuals navigate and utilize urban spaces in detail. In this study, we utilize these extensive, unlabeled sequences of user…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Xinhua Wu , Haoyu He , Yanchao Wang , Qi Wang

Monitoring urban structure and development requires high-quality data at high spatiotemporal resolution. While traditional censuses have provided foundational insights into demographic and socioeconomic aspects of urban life, their pace may…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-03-20 Gezhi Xiu , Jianying Wang , Thilo Gross , Mei-Po Kwan , Xia Peng , Yu Liu

First-passage properties are central to the kinetics of target-search processes. Theoretical approaches so far primarily focused on predicting first-passage statistics for a given process or model. In practice, however, one faces the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-01-08 Rick Bebon , Aljaz Godec