Defining a city—delineating urban areas using cell-phone data

L Dong, F Duarte, G Duranton, P Santi, M Barthelemy… - Nature Cities, 2024 - nature.com
What is a city? Researchers use different criteria and datasets to define it—from population
density to traffic flows. We argue there is one dataset that could serve as a proxy of the …

[HTML][HTML] Conserved quantities in human mobility: From locations to trips

Y Hong, H Martin, Y Xin, D Bucher, DJ Reck… - … research part C …, 2023 - Elsevier
Quantifying intra-person variability in travel choices is essential for the comprehension of
activity–travel behaviour. Due to a lack of empirical studies, there is limited understanding of …

High connectivity and human movement limits the impact of travel time on infectious disease transmission

RS John, JC Miller, RL Muylaert… - Journal of the Royal …, 2024 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The speed of spread of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)
during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic highlights the importance of …

Diagnosing urban traffic anomalies by integrating geographic knowledge and tensor theory

Z Zhao, L Tang, C Ren, X Yang, Z Kan… - GIScience & Remote …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Urban traffic anomaly diagnosis is crucial for urban road management and smart city
construction. Most existing methods perform anomaly detection from a data-driven …

Identifying human mobility patterns using smart card data

O Cats - Transport Reviews, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Human mobility is subject to collective dynamics that are the outcome of numerous
individual choices. Smart card data which originated as a means of facilitating automated …

[HTML][HTML] National scale mapping of supply and demand for recreational ecosystem services

DAP Hooftman, LE Ridding, JW Redhead… - Ecological Indicators, 2023 - Elsevier
Cultural ecosystem services (CES) are often underrepresented in ecosystem service
assessments, despite the importance of these benefits. Recreation is often used to represent …

Efficient self-organization of informal public transport networks

KM Mittal, M Timme, M Schröder - Nature Communications, 2024 - nature.com
Abstract The Global South, encompassing more than 80% of the world population, heavily
relies on informal paratransit services with ad-hoc routes. Yet, it remains unclear how …

What are patterns of rise and decline?

A Raulo, A Rojas, B Kröger… - Royal Society …, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The notions of change, such as birth, death, growth, evolution and longevity, extend across
reality, including biological, cultural and societal phenomena. Patterns of change describe …

[HTML][HTML] Spatial structure of workplace and communication between colleagues: A study of E-mail exchange and spatial relatedness on the MIT campus

A Sevtsuk, B Chancey, R Basu, M Mazzarello - Social Networks, 2022 - Elsevier
How does the spatial structure of work environments affect social interactions among
workers? Building on prior studies of both physical and electronic communication networks …

Temporal and spatial evolution of the distribution related to the number of COVID-19 pandemic

P Liu, Y Zheng - Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and Its Applications, 2022 - Elsevier
This work systematically conducts a data analysis based on the numbers of both cumulative
and daily confirmed COVID-19 cases and deaths in a time span through April 2020 to June …