Socio-geography of human mobility: A study using longitudinal mobile phone data

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Phithakkitnukoon, Santi ^a   Smoreda, Zbigniew ^b   Olivier, Patrick ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b ORANGE LABS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; GEOGRAPHY; HUMAN; LOCAL AREA NETWORK; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MIGRATION; MOBILE PHONE; POPULATION DENSITY; PORTUGAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIAL DISTANCE; SOCIAL NETWORK; TELECOMMUNICATION; URBAN AREA;

CELLULAR PHONE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; PORTUGAL; SOCIAL SUPPORT; TRAVEL;

EID: 84862998679     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0039253     Document Type: Article

References (34)

1. Onnela J, Saramaki J, Hyvonen J, Szabo G, Lazer D, et al. (2007) Structure and tie strengths in mobile communication networks. PNAS 104: 7332-7336.
2. González MC, Hidalgo CA, Barabási AL, (2009) Understanding individual human mobility patterns. Nature 458: 238-238.
3. Wang P, Gonzalez MC, Hidalgo CA, Barabasi AL, (2009) Understanding the spreading patterns of mobile phone viruses. Science 324: 1071-1076.
4. Song C, Qu Z, Blumm N, Barabási AL, (2010) Limits of predictability in human mobility. Science 327: 1018-1021.
5. Song C, Koren T, Wang P, Barabási AL, (2010) Modelling the scaling properties of human mobility. Nature Physics 6: 818-823.
6. Calabrese F, DiLorenzo G, Ratti C, (2010) Human mobility prediction based on individual and collective geographical preferences. In: Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems. pp. pp. 312-317.
7. Isaacman S, Becker R, Cáceres R, Kobourov S, Rowland J, et al. (2010) A tale of two cities. In: Proceedings of the Eleventh Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems Applications. New York, NY, USA: ACM, HotMobile '10, pp. pp. 19-24.
8. Isaacman S, Becker R, Cáceres R, Kobourov SG, Martonosi M, et al. (2011) Identifying important places in people's lives from cellular network data. In: Pervasive Computing. pp. pp. 133-151.
9. Hidalgo CA, Rodriguez-Sickert C, (2008) The dynamics of a mobile phone network. Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 387: 3017-3024.
10. Phithakkitnukoon S, Dantu R, (2011) Mobile social group sizes and scaling ratio. AI Soc 26: 71-85.
11. Calabrese F, Pereira F, Di Lorenzo G, Liu L, Ratti C, (2010) The Geography of Taste: Analyzing Cell-Phone Mobility and Social Events. In: Floréen P, Krüger A, Spasojevic M, editors, Pervasive Computing. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin/Heidelberg, volume 6030 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pp. pp. 22-37.
12. Quercia D, Lathia N, Calabrese F, Di Lorenzo G, Crowcroft J, (2010) Recommending social events from mobile phone location data. In: Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining. Washington, DC, USA: IEEE Computer Society, ICDM '10, pp. pp. 971-976.
13. Traag V, Browet A, Calabrese F, Morlot F, (2011) Social event detection in massive mobile phone data using probabilistic location inference. In: Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Social Computing. Cambridge, MA, pp. USA, 625-628.
14. Eagle N, de Montjoye YA, Bettencourt LMA, (2009) Community computing: Comparisons between rural and urban societies using mobile phone data. In: Proceedings of the 2009 International Conference on Computational Science and Engineering- Volume 04. Washington, DC, USA: IEEE Computer Society, pp. pp. 144-150.
15. Eagle N, Macy M, Claxton R, (2010) Network diversity and economic development. Science 328: 1029-1031.
16. Calabrese F, Smoreda Z, Blondel VD, Ratti C, (2011) The interplay between telecommunications and face-to-face interactions- an initial study using mobile phone data. PLoS ONE 6: e20814.
17. Phithakkitnukoon S, Calabrese F, Smoreda Z, Ratti C, (2011) Out of Sight Out of Mind: How Our Mobile Social Network Changes During Migration. In: Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Social Computing. Cambridge, MA, USA, pp. pp. 515-520.
18. Krings G, Calabrese F, Ratti C, Blondel VD, (2009) Scaling behaviors in the communication network between cities. In: Proceedings of the 2009 International Conference on Computational Science and Engineering- Volume 04. Washington, DC, USA: IEEE Computer Society, pp. pp. 936-939.
19. Onnela JP, Arbesman S, González MC, Barabási AL, Christakis NA, (2011) Geographic constraints on social network groups. PLoS ONE 6: e16939.
20. Leighton T, (2009) Improving performance on the internet. Communications of the ACM 52: 44-51.
21. Hao Q, Cai R, Wang C, Xiao R, Yang JM, et al. (2010) Equip tourists with knowledge mined from travelogues. In: Proceedings of the 19th international conference on World Wide Web. New York, NY, USA: ACM, WWW '10, pp. pp. 401-410.
22. Zheng VW, Zheng Y, Xie X, Yang Q, (2010) Collaborative location and activity recommendations with gps history data. In: Proceedings of the 19th international conference on World wide web. New York, NY, USA: ACM, WWW '10, pp. pp. 1029-1038.
23. Zheng Y, Zhang L, Xie X, Ma WY, (2009) Mining interesting locations and travel sequences from gps trajectories. In: Proceedings of the 18th international conference on World wide web. New York, NY, USA: ACM, WWW '09, pp. pp. 791-800.
24. Glaeser EL, Kahn ME, (2004) Sprawl and urban growth, volume 4 of Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics. Elsevier, 2481-2527 pp.
25. Hatton TJ, Williamson JG, (2010) Global migration and the world economy: Two centuries of policy and performance. Economica 77: 201-203.
26. Eubank S, Guclu H, Anil Kumar VS, Marathe MV, Srinivasan A, et al. (2004) Modelling disease outbreaks in realistic urban social networks. Nature 429: 180-184.
27. Instituto Nacional de Estatística. 2001 Census Available:http://www.ine.pt.
28. Eurofound (2000) Working conditions in Portugal 2000. Available:http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/ewco/surveys/PT0503SR01/PT0503SR01.pdf.
29. Granovetter M, (1973) The Strength of Weak Ties. American Journal of Sociology 78: 1360-1380.
30. United States Department of Labor (2011) American time use survey summary. Available:www.bls.gov/tus.
31. Eurostat (2006) How is the time of women and men distributed in Europe? Available:http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu.
32. Ewing R, Cervero R, (2001) Travel and the built environment: A synthesis. Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board 1780: 87-113.
33. Ioannides YM, Overman HG, (2003) Zipf's law for cities: an empirical examination. Regional Science and Urban Economics 33: 127-137.
34. (2007) Instituto Nacional de Estatística. Demographic statistics Available:http://www.ine.pt.