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Understanding human mobility patterns is important in applications as diverse as urban planning, public health, and political organizing. One rich source of data on human mobility is taxi ride data. Using the city of Chicago as a case…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Harish Chauhan , Nikunj Gupta , Zoe Haskell-Craig

Current studies on activity space are limited by the conceptualization of absolute physical space that fails to consider the heterogeneity of relational spaces reconstructed from spatial interactions of human movements between locations and…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-03-24 Zhicheng Deng , Zhaoya Gong , Jean-Claude Thill , Elizabeth C. Delmelle

In transport modeling and prediction, trip purposes play an important role since mobility choices (e.g. modes, routes, departure times) are made in order to carry out specific activities. Activity based models, which have been gaining…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2015-02-16 Youngsung Kim , Francisco C. Pereira , Fang Zhao , Ajinkya Ghorpade , P. Christopher Zegras , Moshe Ben-Akiva

The spatial pattern of urban-rural regional system is associated with the dynamic process of urbanization. How to characterize the urban-rural terrain using quantitative measurement is a difficult problem remaining to be solved. This paper…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-12-19 Yanguang Chen

Diversified economies are critical for cities to sustain their growth and development, but they are also costly because diversification often requires expanding a city's capability base. We analyze how cities manage this trade-off by…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-01-20 Simone Daniotti , Matte Hartog , Frank Neffke

This study leverages large-scale travel surveys for over 200,000 residents across Boston, Chicago, Hong Kong, London, and Sao Paulo. With rich individual-level data, we make systematic comparisons and reveal patterns in social mixing, which…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Z. Fan , B. P. Y. Loo , F. Duarte , C. Ratti , E. Moro

Uncovering higher-order spatiotemporal dependencies within human mobility networks offers valuable insights into the analysis of urban structures. In most existing studies, human mobility networks are typically constructed by aggregating…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Shuyang Shi , Ding Lyu , Lin Wang , Xiaofan Wang , Guanrong Chen

Detecting regional spatial structures based on spatial interactions is crucial in applications ranging from urban planning to traffic control. In the big data era, various movement trajectories are available for studying spatial structures.…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-02-03 Xi Liu , Li Gong , Yongxi Gong , Yu Liu

We described the average traffic congestion in several populous cities around the world from a new concept, namely landscape percolation. The ratio of the residential area size to road width is a fundamental parameter that controls the…

In this paper, urban traffic is modeled using dual graph representation of urban transportation network where roads are mapped to nodes and intersections are mapped to links. The proposed model considers both the navigation of vehicles on…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-11-13 Mao-Bin Hu , Rui Jiang , Yong-Hong Wu , Wen-Xu Wang , Qing-Song Wu

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

We compare the structural properties of the street networks of ten different European cities using their primal representation. We investigate the properties of the geometry of the networks and a set of centrality measures highlighting…

We investigate how efficient each area of urban street network is connected. Using the detour index, geographic features of street network and pairwise efficiency is studied. To do so, the detour index of 1,832,118 travel route pairs for 85…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-08-22 Minjin Lee , SangHyun Cheon , Sungmin Lee

We investigate the behavior of extended urban traffic networks within the framework of percolation theory by using real and synthetic traffic data. Our main focus shifts from the statistical properties of the cluster size distribution…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-07-21 Marco Cogoni , Giovanni Busonera

Traffic congestion at urban-scale levels occurs when road network supply is insufficient compared with demand. Therefore, the relationship between supply and demand has been extensively investigated in the literature. Especially the impact…

Applications · Statistics 2023-10-26 Kota Nagasaki , Toru Seo

Human mobility demonstrates a high degree of regularity, which facilitates the discovery of lifestyle profiles. Existing research has yet to fully utilize the regularities embedded in high-order features extracted from human mobility…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-04 Yeshuo Shu , Gangcheng Zhang , Keyi Liu , Jintong Tang , Liyan Xu

As urban critic Jane Jacobs conceived, a city is essentially the problem of organized complexity. What underlies the complexity refers to a structural factor, called living structure, which is defined as a mathematical structure composed of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-10-03 Andy Jingqian Xue , Chenyu Huang , Bin Jiang

The statistical properties of human mobility have been studied in the framework of complex systems physics. Taking advantage from the new datasets made available by the information and communication technologies, the distributions of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-10-03 Chiara Mizzi , Alessandro Fabbri , Giulio Colombini , Flavio Bertini , Armando Bazzani

With trends of urbanisation on the rise, providing adequate housing to individuals remains a complex issue to be addressed. Often, the slow output of relevant housing policies, coupled with quickly increasing housing costs, leaves…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-07-06 Nandini Iyer , Ronaldo Menezes , Hugo Barbosa

Different collective behaviors emerging from the unknown have been examined in networks of mobile agents in recent years. Mobile systems, far from being limited to modeling and studying various natural and artificial systems in motion and…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2025-06-25 Venceslas Nguefoue Meli , Thierry Njougouo , Steve J. Kongni , Patrick Louodop , Hilaire Bertrand Fotsin , Hilda A. Cerdeira