The scaling of human mobility by taxis is exponential

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

Volumn 391, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 2135-2144

  Liang, Xiao ^a   Zheng, Xudong ^a   Lv, Weifeng ^a   Zhu, Tongyu ^a   Xu, Ke ^a  

^a BEIHANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Exponential distribution; GPS data; Human mobility; Urban mobility

Indexed keywords

PHYSICS;

EXPONENTIAL DISTRIBUTIONS; FINE GRANULARITY; GPS DATA; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; HUMAN MOBILITY; POWER LAW DISTRIBUTION; TRAFFIC FORECASTING; URBAN MOBILITY;

URBAN PLANNING;

EID: 84655167597     PISSN: 03784371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2011.11.035     Document Type: Article

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