Human mobility patterns in different communities: a mobile phone data-based social network approach

Annals of GIS

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 15-26

  Shi, Li ^a   Chi, Guanghua ^a   Liu, Xi ^a   Liu, Yu ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

human mobility; mobile phone data; social community; spatial pattern

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; COMMUTING; MOBILE COMMUNICATION; MOBILITY; SOCIAL NETWORK; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 84926144966     PISSN: 19475683     EISSN: 19475691     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/19475683.2014.992372     Document Type: Article

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