The scaling laws of human travel

Nature

Volumn 439, Issue 7075, 2006, Pages 462-465

  Brockmann, D ^a,b   Hufnagel, L ^c   Geisel, T ^a,b,d  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR DYNAMICS AND SELF ORGANIZATION   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISEASE CONTROL; GENES; GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS; INTERNATIONAL TRADE; PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS; POPULATION STATISTICS;

GENE POOLS; GEOGRAPHICAL SCALES; HUMAN TRAVELLING STATISTICS; SPATIOTEMPORAL SCALES;

NATURAL SCIENCES;

SCALE EFFECT; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TRAVEL BEHAVIOR;

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL CONCEPTS; THEORETICAL MODEL; TRAVEL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 31444431866     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature04292     Document Type: Article

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