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Human mobility is subject to collective dynamics that are the outcome of numerous individual choices. Smart card data which originated as a means of facilitating automated fare collections has emerged as an invaluable source for analyzing…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-08-11 Oded Cats

The study of human mobility patterns is of both theoretical and practical values in many aspects. For long-distance travels, a few research endeavors have shown that the displacements of human travels follow the power-law distribution.…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-12-28 Ling Zhang , Shuangling Luo , Haoxiang Xia

Recent mobility scaling research, using new data sources, often relies on aggregated data alone. Hence, these studies face difficulties characterizing the influence of factors such as transportation mode on mobility patterns. This paper…

Physics and Society · Physics 2014-01-07 Galen Wilkerson , Ramin Khalili , Stefan Schmid

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

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

Human movements in the real world and in cyberspace affect not only dynamical processes such as epidemic spreading and information diffusion but also social and economical activities such as urban planning and personalized recommendation in…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-06-22 Yi-Ming Zhao , An Zeng , Xiao-Yong Yan , Wen-Xu Wang , Ying-Cheng Lai

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

Transportation planning is strongly influenced by the assumption that every individual has for his daily mobility a constant daily budget of ~1 hour. However, recent experimental results are proving this assumption as wrong. Here, we study…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-10-06 Riccardo Gallotti , Armando Bazzani , Sandro Rambaldi

The research objectives are exploring characteristics of human mobility patterns, subsequently modelling them mathematically depending on inter-event time and traveled distances parameters using CDRs (Call Detailed Records). The…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-07-16 Suhad Faisal Behadili , Cyrille Bertelle , Loay E. George

In everyday life, the process of commuting to work from home happens every now and then. And the research of commute characteristics is useful for urban function planning. For humans, the commute of an individual seems revealing no regular…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2015-10-28 Hongyan Cui , Yuxiao Wu , Stanislav Sobolevskv , Shuai Xu , Carlo Ratti

Cellular phones are now offering an ubiquitous means for scientists to observe life: how people act, move and respond to external influences. They can be utilized as measurement devices of individual persons and for groups of people of the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-06-12 Shao-Meng Qin , Hannu Verkasalo , Mikael Mohtaschemi , Tuomo Hartonen , Mikko Alava

Human mobility analysis is an important issue in social sciences, and mobility data are among the most sought-after sources of information in ur- Data ban studies, geography, transportation and territory management. In network sciences…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2013-01-29 Thomas Couronne , Zbigniew Smoreda , Ana-Maria Olteanu

We present a study on human mobility at small spatial scales. Differently from large scale mobility, recently studied through dollar-bill tracking and mobile phone data sets within one big country or continent, we report Brownian features…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-07-19 Pedro G. Lind , Adriano Moreira

Cross-country soaring flights rely on intermittent atmospheric updrafts to cover long distances, producing trajectories that alternate between rapid relocation and local exploration. From a large dataset of paraglider, hang glider, and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-01-06 Jérémie Vilpellet , Alexandre Darmon , Michael Benzaquen

Human interactions and mobility shape epidemic dynamics by facilitating disease outbreaks and their spatial spread across regions. Traditional models often isolate commuting and random mobility as separate behaviors, focusing either on…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-12-11 Pablo Valgañón , Antonio Brotons , David Soriano-Paños , Jesús Gómez-Gardeñes

Recent advances in human mobility research have revealed consistent pairwise characteristics in movement behavior, yet existing mobility models often overlook the spatial and topological structure of mobility networks. By analyzing millions…

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

The gravity model of human mobility has successfully described the deterrence of travels with distance in urban mobility patterns. While a broad spectrum of deterrence was found across different cities, yet it is not empirically clear if…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-12-19 Oh-Hyun Kwon , Inho Hong , Woo-Sung Jung , Hang-Hyun Jo

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

Understanding and modeling human mobility is central to challenges in transport planning, sustainable urban design, and public health. Despite decades of effort, simulating individual mobility remains challenging because of its complex,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-02-10 Ye Hong , Yatao Zhang , Konrad Schindler , Martin Raubal

Understanding urban mobility requires models that capture how people interact with and navigate the built environment. We present a scalable, generalizable agent-based framework in which daily schedules emerge from the interplay between…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-01-30 Sandro M. Reia , Henrique F. de Arruda , Shiyang Ruan , Taylor Anderson , Hamdi Kavak , Dieter Pfoser