Understanding individual human mobility patterns

Nature

Volumn 453, Issue 7196, 2008, Pages 779-782

  González, Marta C ^a   Hidalgo, César A ^a,b   Barabási, Albert László ^a,b,c  

^a NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

^c DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPIDEMIC; HOMINID; MOBILE COMMUNICATION; MOBILITY; PROBABILITY; RANDOM WALK METHOD; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TRACKING; TRAJECTORY; URBAN PLANNING;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; CITY PLANNING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDEMIC; FLIGHT; HUMAN; MOBILE PHONE; POPULATION MOVEMENT PATTERN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; PROPHYLAXIS; RANDOMIZATION; REPRODUCIBILITY; TRAVEL; WALKING;

EID: 44849122540     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature06958     Document Type: Article

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