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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…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-02-08 Minjin Lee , Petter Holme

What people buy is an important aspect or view of lifestyles. Studying people's shopping patterns in different urban regions can not only provide valuable information for various commercial opportunities, but also enable a better…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-01-24 Tianran Hu , Ruihua Song , Yingzi Wang , Xing Xie , Jiebo Luo

Accurate modeling of human mobility is critical for tackling urban planning and public health challenges. In undeveloped regions, the absence of comprehensive travel surveys necessitates reconstructing mobility networks from publicly…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Jinming Yang , Shaoyu Huang , Zongyuan Huang , Yaohui Jin , Xiaokang Yang , Marta C. Gonzalez , Yanyan Xu

Major disasters such as extreme weather events can magnify and exacerbate pre-existing social disparities, with disadvantaged populations bearing disproportionate costs. Despite the implications for equity and emergency planning, we lack a…

Whether in search of better trade opportunities or escaping wars, humans have always been on the move. For almost a century, mathematical models of human mobility have been instrumental in the quantification of commuting patterns and…

The goal of this paper is to provide mathematically rigorous tools for modelling the evolution of a community of interacting individuals. We model the population by a measure space where the measure determines the abundance of individual…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-05-17 Thomas Cass , Terry Lyons

In recent years, human mobility research has discovered universal patterns capable of describing how people move. These regularities have been shown to partly depend on individual and environmental characteristics (e.g., gender,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-12-18 Simone Centellegher , Marco De Nadai , Marco Tonin , Bruno Lepri , Lorenzo Lucchini

Researches on the human mobility have made great progress in many aspects, but the long-term and long-distance migration behavior is lack of in-depth and extensive research because of the difficult in accessing to household data. In this…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-03-27 Qi Nie , Jian-Jun Wu , Xiao-Yong Yan , Jin-Hu Liu , Jun Wang

According to personality psychology, personality traits determine many aspects of human behaviour. However, validating this insight in large groups has been challenging so far, due to the scarcity of multi-channel data. Here, we focus on…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-11-12 Laura Alessandretti , Sune Lehmann , Andrea Baronchelli

The well-studied problem of statistical rank aggregation has been applied to comparing sports teams, information retrieval, and most recently to data generated by human judgment. Such human-generated rankings may be substantially different…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2014-11-05 Andrew Mao , Hossein Azari Soufiani , Yiling Chen , David C. Parkes

Many of our routines and activities are linked to our ability to move; be it commuting to work, shopping for groceries, or meeting friends. Yet, factors that limit the individuals' ability to fully realise their mobility needs will…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-03-04 Mariana Macedo , Laura Lotero , Alessio Cardillo , Ronaldo Menezes , Hugo Barbosa

Recent seminal works on human mobility have shown that individuals constantly exploit a small set of repeatedly visited locations. A concurrent literature has emphasized the explorative nature of human behavior, showing that the number of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-06-20 Laura Alessandretti , Piotr Sapiezynski , Vedran Sekara , Sune Lehmann , Andrea Baronchelli

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

A fundamental question in nonequilibrium statistical physics is whether effective equilibrium behavior can emerge at coarse-grained scales in strongly driven systems. Here, we investigate this question in the context of human mobility by…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-03-24 Lei Dong

In recent years, we have seen scientists attempt to model and explain human dynamics and, in particular, human movement. Many aspects of our complex life are affected by human movements such as disease spread and epidemics modeling, city…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-11-05 Hugo Barbosa , Fernando Buarque de Lima Neto , Alexandre Evsukoff , Ronaldo Menezes

The prevalence of many urban phenomena changes systematically with population size. We propose a theory that unifies models of economic complexity and cultural evolution to derive urban scaling. The theory accounts for the difference in…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-12-28 Andres Gomez-Lievano , Oscar Patterson-Lomba , Ricardo Hausmann

Human mobility and other social activity patterns influence various aspects of society such as urban planning, traffic predictions, crisis resilience, and epidemic prevention. The behaviour of individuals, like their communication…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-11-27 Fumiko Ogushi , Chandreyee Roy , Kimmo Kaski

Human mobility patterns deeply affect the dynamics of many social systems. In this paper, we empirically analyze the real-world human movements based GPS records, and observe rich scaling properties in the temporal-spatial patterns as well…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-06-15 Xiang-Wen Wang , Xiao-Pu Han , Bing-Hong Wang

Human migration is a type of human mobility, where a trip involves a person moving with the intention of changing their home location. Predicting human migration as accurately as possible is important in city planning applications,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-11-16 Caleb Robinson , Bistra Dilkina

Predictive models for human mobility have important applications in many fields such as traffic control, ubiquitous computing and contextual advertisement. The predictive performance of models in literature varies quite broadly, from as…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2016-08-08 Andrea Cuttone , Sune Lehmann , Marta C. González