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Human Mobility has attracted attentions from different fields of studies such as epidemic modeling, traffic engineering, traffic prediction and urban planning. In this survey we review major characteristics of human mobility studies…

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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…

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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.…

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Understanding the variability of people's travel patterns is key to transport planning and policy-making. However, to what extent daily transit use displays geographic and temporal variabilities, and what are the contributing factors have…

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With the advent of advanced 4G/5G mobile networks, mobile phone data collected by operators now includes detailed, service-specific traffic information with high spatio-temporal resolution. In this paper, we leverage this type of data to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Giulio Loddi , Chiara Pugliese , Francesco Lettich , Fabio Pinelli , Chiara Renso

The current science of cities can provide a useful foundation for future urban policies, provided that these proposals have been validated by correct observations of the diversity of situations in the world. However, international…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-05-21 Juste Raimbault , Eric Denis , Denise Pumain

Collective urban mobility embodies the residents' local insights on the city. Mobility practices of the residents are produced from their spatial choices, which involve various considerations such as the atmosphere of destinations,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2017-10-02 Souneil Park , Joan Serra , Enrique Frias Martinez , Nuria Oliver

Understanding human mobility is of vital importance for urban planning, epidemiology, and many other fields that aim to draw policies from the activities of humans in space. Despite recent availability of large scale data sets related to…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-08-18 Oleguer Sagarra , Michael Szell , Paolo Santi , Albert Diaz-Guilera , Carlo Ratti

Research into, and design and construction of mobile systems and algorithms requires access to large-scale mobility data. Unfortunately, the wireless and mobile research community lacks such data. For instance, the largest available human…

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The rapid development of urbanization during the past decades has significantly improved people's lives but also introduced new challenges on effective functional urban planning and transportation management. The functional regions defined…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-08-02 Zhuochen Jin , Nan Cao , Yang Shi , Hanghang Tong , Yingcai Wu

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…

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Urban cultures and architectural styles vary significantly across cities due to geographical, chronological, historical, and socio-political factors. Understanding these differences is essential for anticipating how cities may evolve in the…

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The description of complex human mobility patterns is at the core of many important applications ranging from urbanism and transportation to epidemics containment. Data about collective human movements, once scarce, has become widely…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-11-21 Riccardo Gallotti , Davide Maniscalco , Marc Barthelemy , Manlio De Domenico

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…

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Since the industrial revolution, accelerated urban growth has overflown administrative divisions, merged cities into large built extensions, and blurred the boundaries between urban and rural land-uses. These traits, present in most of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-09-21 Francisco J. Humeres , Horacio Samaniego

Data on human spatial distribution and movement is essential for understanding and analyzing social systems. However existing sources for this data are lacking in various ways; difficult to access, biased, have poor geographical or temporal…

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Human mobility regularity is crucial for understanding urban dynamics and informing decision-making processes. This study first quantifies the periodicity in complex human mobility data as a sparse identification of dominant positive…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-09-15 Xinyu Chen , Qi Wang , Yunhan Zheng , Nina Cao , HanQin Cai , Jinhua Zhao

As a window for urban sensing, human mobility contains rich spatiotemporal information that reflects both residents' behavior preferences and the functions of urban areas. The analysis of human mobility has attracted the attention of many…

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Modeling traffic dynamics is a critical challenge for urban computing, with applications from real-time traffic management to infrastructure planning. However, progress in this area is fundamentally constrained by a lack of large-scale…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Fedor Velikonivtsev , Oleg Platonov , Ekaterina Alimaskina , Gleb Bazhenov , Liudmila Prokhorenkova

The accurate estimation of human activity in cities is one of the first steps towards understanding the structure of the urban environment. Human activities are highly granular and dynamic in spatial and temporal dimensions. Estimating…

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