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Statistical evaluations of the economic mobility of a society are more difficult than measurements of the income distribution, because they require to follow the evolution of the individuals' income for at least one or two generations. In…

Economics · Quantitative Finance 2016-11-01 Maria Letizia Bertotti , Giovanni Modanese

Cities create potential for individuals from different backgrounds to interact with one another. It is often the case, however, that urban infrastructure obfuscates this potential, creating dense pockets of affluence and poverty throughout…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-04-21 Nandini Iyer , Ronaldo Menezes , Hugo Barbosa

Great cities connect people; failed cities isolate people. Despite the fundamental importance of physical, face-to-face social-ties in the functioning of cities, these connectivity networks are not explicitly observed in their entirety.…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-07-21 Aaron Sim , Sophia N Yaliraki , Mauricio Barahona , Michael P H Stumpf

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

In this work we analyze the architecture of real urban mobility networks from the multiplex perspective. In particular, based on empirical data about the mobility patterns in the cities of Bogot\'a and Medell\'{\i}n, each city is…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-03-04 Laura Lotero , Alessio Cardillo , Rafael Hurtado , Jesús Gómez-Gardeñes

We investigate how parenthood and marriage (two major life events) reshape urban mobility patterns, an aspect overlooked in traditional `average citizen' mobility models. Leveraging US census data, we analyse whether these life transitions…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-04-14 Mariana Macedo , Ronaldo Menezes , Alessio Cardillo

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

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

Segregation encodes information about society, such as social cohesion, mixing, and inequality. However, most past and current studies tackled socioeconomic (SE) segregation by analyzing static aggregated mobility networks, often without…

Using the 2017 National Household Travel Survey (NHTS), this study analyzes America's urban travel trends compared with earlier nationwide travel surveys, and examines the variations in travel behaviors among a range of socioeconomic…

General Economics · Economics 2023-03-10 Xize Wang , John L. Renne

Mobile phone data have played a key role in quantifying human mobility during the COVID-19 pandemic. Existing studies on mobility patterns have primarily focused on regional aggregates in high-income countries, obfuscating the accentuated…

Fundamental laws of human mobility have been extensively studied, yet we are still lacking a comprehensive understanding of the mobility patterns of sharing conveyances. Since travellers would highly probably no longer possess their own…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-02-16 Ruiqi Li , Ankang Luo , Fan Shang , Linyuan Lv , Jingfang Fan , Gang Lu , Liming Pan , Lixin Tian , H. Eugene Stanley

The spatial heterogeneity of cities -- the uneven distribution of population and activities -- is fundamental to urban dynamics and related to critical issues such as infrastructure overload, housing affordability, and social inequality.…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-11-14 Hao Huang , Yuming Lin , Jiazhen Liu

Human mobility in cities is shaped not only by visible structures such as highways, rivers, and parks but also by invisible barriers rooted in socioeconomic segregation, uneven access to amenities, and administrative divisions. Yet…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Guangyuan Weng , Minsuk Kim , Yong-Yeol Ahn , Esteban Moro

Interaction with individuals from other socioeconomic classes has been shown to be a main driver for social mobility. We employ tools of social identity theory and network analysis to show how exposure to individuals of different social…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2024-06-18 Christian Ghiglino , Nicole Tabasso

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

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

Cities host diverse people and their mixing is the engine of prosperity. In turn, segregation and inequalities are common features of most cities and locations that enable the meeting of people with different socio-economic status are key…

Barriers in cities, such as administrative boundaries, natural obstacles, railways or major roads are thought to induce segregation. However, the empirical knowledge about this phenomenon is limited. Here, we present a network science…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-08-13 Gergő Pintér , Balázs Lengyel

This study leverages mobile phone data to analyze human mobility patterns in developing countries, especially in comparison to more industrialized countries. Developing regions, such as the Ivory Coast, are marked by a number of factors…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-01-23 Alexander Amini , Kevin Kung , Chaogui Kang , Stanislav Sobolevsky , Carlo Ratti