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During the current COVID-19 pandemic it is imperative to give early warnings to reduce mortality. However, non-specialist such as authorities and the general population face several problems to understand the real thread of this pandemic,…

Medical Physics · Physics 2020-03-25 R. I. Gonzalez , F. Munoz , P. S. Moya , M. Kiwi

Home-work commuting has always attracted significant research attention because of its impact on human mobility. One of the key assumptions in this domain of study is the universal uniformity of commute times. However, a true comparison of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-06-17 Kevin S. Kung , Kael Greco , Stanislav Sobolevsky , Carlo Ratti

Commuting patterns are a central component of urban dynamics and many societal activities. Exogenous shocks, such as a pandemic, might drastically modify them inducing heterogeneous variations across socioeconomic strata. Here, we quantify…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-03-13 Cristiano Marinelli , Leo Ferres , Niccolò Comini , Nicolò Gozzi , Nicola Perra

The non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs), aimed at reducing the diffusion of the COVID-19 pandemic, has dramatically influenced our behaviour in everyday life. In this work, we study how individuals adapted their daily movements and…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-08-18 Lorenzo Lucchini , Simone Centellegher , Luca Pappalardo , Riccardo Gallotti , Filippo Privitera , Bruno Lepri , Marco De Nadai

Existing empirical work has focused on assessing the effectiveness of non-pharmaceutical interventions on human mobility to contain the spread of COVID-19. Less is known about the ways in which the COVID-19 pandemic has reshaped the spatial…

Socio-economic constructs and urban topology are crucial drivers of human mobility patterns. During the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic, these patterns were reshaped in their components: the spatial dimension represented by the daily…

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

As the COVID-19 outbreak evolves around the world, the World Health Organization (WHO) and its Member States have been heavily relying on staying at home and lock down measures to control the spread of the virus. In the last months, various…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-12-25 Anna Schmedding , Lishan Yang , Riccardo Pinciroli , Evgenia Smirni

Controlling the spread of COVID-19 - even after a licensed vaccine is available - requires the effective use of non-pharmaceutical interventions: physical distancing, limits on group sizes, mask wearing, etc. To date, such interventions…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2020-10-30 Benjamin M. Althouse , Brendan Wallace , Brendan Case , Samuel V. Scarpino , Andrew M. Berdahl , Easton R. White , Laurent Hebert-Dufresne

The implementation of social distancing policies is key to reducing the impact of the current COVID-19 pandemic. However, their effectiveness ultimately depends on human behavior. In the United States, compliance with social distancing…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-03-29 Christopher Parker , Jorge M. Mejia , Franco Pestilli

Intercity travel is one of the most important parameters for combating a pandemic. The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in different computational studies involving intercity connections. In this study, the effects of intercity…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-02-18 Emir Baysazan , A. Nihat Berker , Hasan Mandal , Hakan Kaygusuz

Coronavirus, which emerged in China towards the end of 2019 and subsequently influenced the whole world, has changed the daily lives of people to a great extent. In many parts of the world, in both cities and rural areas, people have been…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-01-26 Abdullah Kurkcu , Ilgin Gokasar , Onur Kalan , Alperen Timurogullari , Burak Altin

A mathematical model for the COVID-19 pandemic spread, which integrates age-structured Susceptible-Exposed-Infected-Recovered-Deceased dynamics with real mobile phone data accounting for the population mobility, is presented. The dynamical…

Applications · Statistics 2021-08-24 Ritabrata Dutta , Susana Gomes , Dante Kalise , Lorenzo Pacchiardi

Mexico, like the rest of the world, is currently facing the The COVID-19 pandemic. Given the size of its territory, the efforts to contain the disease have involved both national and regional measures. For this work, the curves of daily new…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-06-23 Guillermo de Anda-Jáuregui

Without a vaccine, the fight against the spreading of the coronavirus has focused on maintaining physical distance. To study the impact of such measures on inter-municipality traffic, we analyze a mobile dataset with the daily flow of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-01-20 H. P. M. Melo , J. Henriques , R. Carvalho , T. Verma , J. P. da Cruz , N. A. M. Araujo

Battle with COVID-19 turned out to be a marathon, not a sprint, and behavioral adjustments have been unavoidable to stay viable. In this paper, we employ a data-centric approach to investigate individual mobility adaptations and…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Jungwoo Cho , Yuyol Shin , Seyun Kim , Namwoo Kim , Soohwan Oh , Haechan Cho , Yoonjin Yoon

With more than 1.7 million COVID-19 deaths, identifying effective measures to prevent COVID-19 is a top priority. We developed a mathematical model to simulate the COVID-19 pandemic with digital contact tracing and testing strategies. The…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Daniel Xu

This paper describes how mobile phone data can guide government and public health authorities in determining the best course of action to control the COVID-19 pandemic and in assessing the effectiveness of control measures such as physical…

Compliance with public health measures, such as restrictions on movement and socialization, is paramount in limiting the spread of diseases such as the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (also referred to as COVID-19). Although…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-03-29 Yelena Mejova , Nicolas Kourtellis

The outbreak of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has swept across more than 180 countries and territories since late January 2020. As a worldwide emergency response, governments have implemented various measures and policies, such as…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Chuang Yang , Zhiwen Zhang , Zipei Fan , Renhe Jiang , Quanjun Chen , Xuan Song , Ryosuke Shibasaki