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The pervasive use of new mobile devices has allowed a better characterization in space and time of human concentrations and mobility in general. Besides its theoretical interest, describing mobility is of great importance for a number of…

Human mobility plays a critical role in urban planning and policy-making. However, at certain spatial and temporal resolutions, it is very challenging to track, for example, job and housing mobility. In this study, we explore the usage of a…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Yawen Zhang , Seth Spielman , Qi Liu , Si Shen , Jason Shuo Zhang , Qin Lv

The rise of location positioning technologies has generated enormous volumes of digital footprints. Translating this big data into understandable trip patterns plays a crucial role in estimating infrastructure demands. Previous studies were…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2019-07-09 Bita Sadeghinasr , Armin Akhavan , Qi Wang

For past several decades, research efforts in population modelling has proven its efficacy in understanding the basic information about residential and commercial areas, as well as for the purposes of planning, development and improvement…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-06-29 Gautam S. Thakur , Kevin A. Sparks , Robert N. Stewart , Marie L. Urban , Budhendra L. Bhaduri

Human mobility patterns refer to the regularities and trends in the way people move, travel, or navigate through different geographical locations over time. Detecting human mobility patterns is essential for a variety of applications,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Yisheng Alison Zheng , Abdallah Lakhdari , Amani Abusafia , Shing Tai Tony Lui , Athman Bouguettaya

Automated tracking of urban development in areas where construction information is not available became possible with recent advancements in machine learning and remote sensing. Unfortunately, these solutions perform best on high-resolution…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-06 Yutong He , William Zhang , Chenlin Meng , Marshall Burke , David B. Lobell , Stefano Ermon

Studies of human mobility increasingly rely on digital sensing, the large-scale recording of human activity facilitated by digital technologies. Questions of variability and population representativity, however, in patterns seen from these…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-09-06 Enwei Zhu , Maham Khan , Philipp Kats , Shreya Santosh Bamne , Stanislav Sobolevsky

Many aspects of life are associated with places of human mobility patterns and nowadays we are facing an increase in the pervasiveness of mobile devices these individuals carry. Positioning technologies that serve these devices such as the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-26 Thiago Andrade , Brais Cancela , João Gama

Nowadays, human movement in urban spaces can be traced digitally in many cases. It can be observed that movement patterns are not constant, but vary across time and space. In this work,we characterize such spatio-temporal patterns with an…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-02-11 Lisette Espín-Noboa , Florian Lemmerich , Philipp Singer , Markus Strohmaier

Emerging trends in smartphones, online maps, social media, and the resulting geo-located data, provide opportunities to collect traces of people's socio-economical activities in a much more granular and direct fashion, triggering a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-08-03 Lei Dong , Sicong Chen , Yunsheng Cheng , Zhengwei Wu , Chao Li , Haishan Wu

Scaling has been proposed as a powerful tool to analyze the properties of complex systems, and in particular for cities where it describes how various properties change with population. The empirical study of scaling on a wide range of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-04-18 Jules Depersin , Marc Barthelemy

The information collected by mobile phone operators can be considered as the most detailed information on human mobility across a large part of the population. The study of the dynamics of human mobility using the collected geolocations of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-11-21 Nicolas Ponieman , Alejo Salles , Carlos Sarraute

The recent availability of digital traces generated by phone calls and online logins has significantly increased the scientific understanding of human mobility. Until now, however, limited data resolution and coverage have hindered a…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-03-20 Laura Alessandretti , Piotr Sapiezynski , Sune Lehmann , Andrea Baronchelli

Despite the long history of modelling human mobility, we continue to lack a highly accurate approach with low data requirements for predicting mobility patterns in cities. Here, we present a population-weighted opportunities model without…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-10-03 Xiao-Yong Yan , Chen Zhao , Ying Fan , Zengru Di , Wen-Xu Wang

The growth of urban areas intensifies the need for sustainable, efficient transportation infrastructure and mobility systems, driving initiatives to enhance infrastructure and public transit while reducing traffic congestion and emissions.…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-04-17 Oluwaleke Yusuf , Adil Rasheed , Frank Lindseth

Cities are inherently dynamic. Interesting patterns of behavior typically manifest at several key areas of a city over multiple temporal resolutions. Studying these patterns can greatly help a variety of experts ranging from city planners…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2018-01-01 Fabio Miranda , Harish Doraiswamy , Marcos Lage , Kai Zhao , Bruno Gonçalves , Luc Wilson , Mondrian Hsieh , Cláudio T. Silva

The expansion of urban centers necessitates enhanced efficiency and sustainability in their transportation infrastructure and mobility systems. The big data obtainable from various transportation modes potentially offers critical insights…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-04-17 Oluwaleke Yusuf , Adil Rasheed , Frank Lindseth

In this chapter, we discuss urban mobility from a complexity science perspective. First, we give an overview of the datasets that enable this approach, such as mobile phone records, location-based social network traces, or GPS trajectories…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-06-23 Laura Alessandretti , Michael Szell

Accurate modelling of local population movement patterns is a core contemporary concern for urban policymakers, affecting both the short term deployment of public transport resources and the longer term planning of transport infrastructure.…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-05-21 Chico Q. Camargo , Jonathan Bright , Scott A. Hale

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