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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

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

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…

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

We present a novel analytical framework to examine socio-spatial segregation across multiple spatial scales, explicitly leveraging information theory and percolation theory. This framework emphasizes the interplay between regional…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-05-22 Mateo Neira , Valentina Marin , Elsa Arcaute

Urban areas serve as melting pots of people with diverse socioeconomic backgrounds, who may not only be segregated but have characteristic mobility patterns in the city. While mobility is driven by individual needs and preferences, the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-01-26 Rafiazka Millanida Hilman , Gerardo Iñiguez , Márton Karsai

We propose a social network-aware approach to studying socio-economic segregation. The key question that we address is whether patterns of segregation are more pronounced in social networks than the common spatial neighborhood-focused…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-10-05 Yuliia Kazmina , Eelke M. Heemskerk , Eszter Bokanyi , Frank W. Takes

Studies using massive, passively data collected from communication technologies have revealed many ubiquitous aspects of social networks, helping us understand and model social media, information diffusion, and organizational dynamics. More…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-02-04 Jameson L. Toole , Carlos Herrera-Yague , Christian M. Schneider , Marta C. Gonzalez

Half of the world population resides in cities and urban segregation is becoming a global issue. One of the best known attempts to understand it is the Schelling model, which considers two types of agents that relocate whenever a transfer…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-11-09 Diego Ortega , Javier Rodríguez-Laguna , Elka Korutcheva

Traditional approaches to urban income segregation focus on static residential patterns, often failing to capture the dynamic nature of social mixing at the neighborhood level. Leveraging high-resolution location-based data from mobile…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-09-09 Lavinia Rossi Mori , Vittorio Loreto , Riccardo Di Clemente

In the past decade, large scale mobile phone data have become available for the study of human movement patterns. These data hold an immense promise for understanding human behavior on a vast scale, and with a precision and accuracy never…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-02-17 Nathalie E. Williams , Timothy A. Thomas , Matthew Dunbar , Nathan Eagle , Adrian Dobra

We present a novel method for analysing socio-spatial segregation in cities by considering constraints imposed by transportation networks. Using a multilayered network approach, we model the interaction probabilities of socio-economic…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-09-27 Mateo Neira , Carlos Molinero , Stephen Marshall , Elsa Arcaute

Addressing issues of social diversity, we introduce a model of housing transactions between agents who are heterogeneous in their willingness to pay. A key assumption is that agents' preferences for a location depend on both an intrinsic…

Physics and Society · Physics 2012-10-09 Laetitia Gauvin , Annick Vignes , Jean-Pierre Nadal

Why are some neighborhoods strongly connected while others remain isolated? Although standard explanations focus on demographics, economics, and geography, movement across the city may also depend on cultural styles and amenity mix. This…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Thiago H Silva , Daniel Silver , Gustavo Santos , Myriam Delgado

Understanding the mobility of humans and their devices is a fundamental problem in mobile computing. While there has been much work on empirical analysis of human mobility using mobile device data, prior work has largely assumed devices to…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Amee Trivedi , Jeremy Gummeson , Prashant Shenoy

Understanding segregation is essential to develop planning tools for building more inclusive cities. Theoretically, segregation at the work place has been described as lower compared to residential segregation given the importance of skill…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-03-14 Teodoro Dannemann , Boris Sotomayor-Gómez , Horacio Samaniego

Recent years have witnessed an explosion of extensive geolocated datasets related to human movement, enabling scientists to quantitatively study individual and collective mobility patterns, and to generate models that can capture and…

Urban vibrancy is the dynamic activity of humans in urban locations. It can vary with urban features and the opportunities for human interactions, but it might also differ according to the underlying social conditions of city inhabitants…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-11-01 Thomas Collins , Riccardo Di Clemente , Mario Gutiérrez-Roig , Federico Botta

This study investigates the complex dynamic interactions between two typed populations coexisting within a shared space. We propose both theoretical and numerical study to analyze scenarios where one population (population $1$) must…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-01-28 Mariam Al Khatib , Said Gounane , Noureddine Igbida , Ghadir Jradi

The spatial distribution of income shapes the structure and organisation of cities and its understanding has broad societal implications. Despite an abundant literature, many issues remain unclear. In particular, all definitions of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-06-22 Rémi Louf , Marc Barthelemy