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Cities generate gains from interaction, but citizens often experience segregation as they move around the urban environment. Using GPS location data, we identify four distinct patterns of experienced segregation across US cities. Most…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-07-18 Andrew Renninger , Neave O'Clery , Elsa Arcaute

External shocks embody an unexpected and disruptive impact on the regular life of people. This was the case during the COVID-19 outbreak that rapidly led to changes in the typical mobility patterns in urban areas. In response, people…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-10-06 Rafiazka Millanida Hilman , Manuel García-Herranz , Vedran Sekara , Márton Karsai

Understanding how urban systems and traffic dynamics co-evolve is crucial for advancing sustainable and resilient cities. However, their bidirectional causal relationships remain underexplored due to challenges of simultaneously inferring…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-10-30 Yatao Zhang , Ye Hong , Song Gao , Martin Raubal

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

Understanding the drivers of urban mobility is vital for epidemiology, urban planning, and communication networks. Human movements have so far been studied by observing people's positions in a given space and time, though most recent models…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-02-21 Raja Jurdak

Millions commute to work every day in cities and interact with colleagues, customers, providers, friends, and strangers. Commuting facilitates the mixing of people from distant and diverse neighborhoods, but whether this has an imprint on…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-10-15 Eszter Bokányi , Sándor Juhász , Márton Karsai , Balázs Lengyel

Congestion and extreme events in transportation networks are emergent phenomena with significant socio-economic implications. In this work, we study congestion and extreme event properties on real urban street (planar) networks drawn from…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-05-22 Ajay Agarwal , M. S. Santhanam

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

Cities are typical dynamic complex systems that connect people and facilitate interactions. Revealing universal collective patterns behind spatio-temporal interactions between residents is crucial for various urban studies, of which we are…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-06-11 Chenxin Liu , Yu Yang , Bingsheng Chen , Tianyu Cui , Fan Shang , Jingfang Fan , Ruiqi Li

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…

Urban density, in the form of residents' and visitors' concentration, is long considered to foster diverse exchanges of interpersonal knowledge and skills, which are intrinsic to sustainable human settlements. However, with current urban…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-09-16 Zhuangyuan Fan , Tianyu Su , Maoran Sun , Ariel Noyman , Fan Zhang , Alex Sandy Pentland , Esteban Moro

The availability of new data sources on human mobility is opening new avenues for investigating the interplay of social networks, human mobility and dynamical processes such as epidemic spreading. Here we analyze data on the time-resolved…

Understanding of the mechanisms driving our daily face-to-face encounters is still limited; the field lacks large-scale datasets describing both individual behaviors and their collective interactions. However, here, with the help of travel…

Physics and Society · Physics 2013-08-07 Lijun Sun , Kay W. Axhausen , Der-Horng Lee , Xianfeng Huang

Understanding and modeling human mobility is central to challenges in transport planning, sustainable urban design, and public health. Despite decades of effort, simulating individual mobility remains challenging because of its complex,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-02-10 Ye Hong , Yatao Zhang , Konrad Schindler , Martin Raubal

Cities are complex systems comprised of socioeconomic systems relying on critical services delivered by multiple physical infrastructure networks. Due to interdependencies between social and physical systems, disruptions caused by natural…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-04-16 Takahiro Yabe , P. Suresh C. Rao , Satish V. Ukkusuri

Next-venue recommender systems are increasingly embedded in location-based services, shaping individual mobility decisions in urban environments. While their predictive accuracy has been extensively studied, less attention has been paid to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Giovanni Mauro , Marco Minici , Luca Pappalardo

As cities expand, human mobility has become a central focus of urban planning and policy making to make cities more inclusive and sustainable. Initiatives such as the "15-minutes city" have been put in place to shift the attention from…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-06-09 Eduardo Graells-Garrido , Feliu Serra-Burriel , Francisco Rowe , Fernando M. Cucchietti , Patricio Reyes

Understanding the relationship between spatial structures of cities and environmental hazard exposures (such as urban heat) is essential for urban health and sustainability planning. However, a critical knowledge gap exists in terms of the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-01-18 Xinke Huang , Yuqin Jiang , Ali Mostafavi

It is very important to understand urban mobility patterns because most trips are concentrated in urban areas. In the paper, a new model is proposed to model collective human mobility in urban areas. The model can be applied to predict…

Physics and Society · Physics 2014-10-28 Xiao Liang , Jichang Zhao , Li Dong , Ke Xu

The amount of data that is being gathered about cities is increasing in size and specificity. However, despite this wealth of information, we still have little understanding of what really drives the processes behind urbanisation. In this…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-11-30 Rémi Louf