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Mobility is a fundamental feature of human life, and through it our interactions with the world and people around us generate complex and consequential social phenomena. Social segregation, one such process, is increasingly acknowledged as…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-05-23 Yitao Yang , Erjian Liu , Bin Jia , Ed Manley

This paper presents a comparison between Millennials' and Baby Boomers' non-work travel behaviors using data from the 2017 National Household Travel Survey. Bootstrapped segmented ordered logit models are employed to capture the variability…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-05-20 Latif Patwary , Md Sami Hasnine , Majbah Uddin

Outbreaks of infectious diseases present a global threat to human health and are considered a major health-care challenge. One major driver for the rapid spatial spread of diseases is human mobility. In particular, the travel patterns of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-04-06 Ahmad El Shoghri , Jessica Liebig , Lauren Gardner , Raja Jurdak , Salil Kanhere

In this paper, we combine the most complete record of daily mobility, based on large-scale mobile phone data, with detailed Geographic Information System (GIS) data, uncovering previously hidden patterns in urban road usage. We find that…

Physics and Society · Physics 2012-12-24 Pu Wang , Timothy Hunter , Alexandre M. Bayen , Katja Schechtner , Marta C. González

Data-driven research is becoming a new paradigm in transportation, but the natural lack of individual socio-economic attributes in transportation data makes research such as activity purpose inference and mobility pattern identification…

Applications · Statistics 2025-02-04 Yitong Chen , Wentao Dong , Chengcheng Yu , Quan Yuan , Chao Yang

Recent mobility scaling research, using new data sources, often relies on aggregated data alone. Hence, these studies face difficulties characterizing the influence of factors such as transportation mode on mobility patterns. This paper…

Physics and Society · Physics 2014-01-07 Galen Wilkerson , Ramin Khalili , Stefan Schmid

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

Segregation is a highly nuanced concept that researchers have worked to define and measure over the past several decades. Conventional approaches tend to estimate segregation based on residential patterns in a static manner. In this work,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-04-17 Nandini Iyer , Ronaldo Menezes , Hugo Barbosa

The paper presents an empirical investigation of telecommuting frequency choices by post-secondary students in Toronto. It uses a dataset collected through a large-scale travel survey conducted on post-secondary students of four major…

Econometrics · Economics 2020-04-10 Khandker Nurul Habib , Ph. D. , PEng

The use of cars in cities has many negative impacts on its population, including pollution, noise and the use of space. Yet, detecting factors that reduce automobile dependency is a serious challenge, particularly across different regions.…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-11-12 Rafael Prieto-Curiel , Juan P. Ospina

The rise in urbanization throughout the United States (US) in recent years has required urban planners and transportation engineers to have greater consideration for the transportation services available to residents of a metropolitan…

Applications · Statistics 2021-11-18 Armstrong Aboah , Lydia Johnson , Setul Shah

In recent decades, many studies investigated the influencing factors on walking. Although there are lots of finding about these factors, only a few of them conducted to differentiate between short and long walking trips and their associated…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-03-10 Aryan Hosseinzadeh

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

Given the rapid recent trend of urbanization, a better understanding of how urban infrastructure mediates socioeconomic interactions and economic systems is of vital importance. While the accessibility of location-enabled devices as well as…

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

Truck transportation remains the dominant mode of US freight transportation because of its advantages, such as the flexibility of accessing pickup and drop-off points and faster delivery. Because of the massive freight volume transported by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Majbah Uddin , Yuandong Liu , Hyeonsup Lim

This article studies the Greek interregional commuting network (GRN) by using measures and methods of complex network analysis and empirical techniques. The study aims to detect structural characteristics of the commuting phenomenon, which…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-03-19 Dimitrios Tsiotas , Konstantinos Raptopoulos

Getting insights on human mobility patterns and being able to reproduce them accurately is of the utmost importance in a wide range of applications from public health, to transport and urban planning. Still the relationship between the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-10-15 Maxime Lenormand , Juan Murillo Arias , Maxi San Miguel , José J. Ramasco

Pedestrians often need to decide between different routes they can use to reach their intended destinations, both during emergencies and in their daily lives. This route-choice behavior is important in determining traffic management,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-12-19 Hongliu Li , Jun Zhang , Long Xia , Weiguo Song , Nikolai W. F. Bode

Migration patterns are complex and context-dependent, with the distances migrants travel varying greatly depending on socio-economic and demographic factors. While global migration studies often focus on Western countries, there is a…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-03-30 Irene Tafani , Ola Ali , Rafael Prieto-Curiel , Massimo Riccaboni