Statistical properties of urban mobility from location-based travel networks

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

Volumn 461, Issue , 2016, Pages 694-707

  Tang, Jinjun ^a,b   Zhang, Shen ^a   Zhang, Wenhui ^c   Liu, Fang ^d   Zhang, Weibin ^b   Wang, Yinhai ^b  

^a HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b University of Washington   (United States)

^c NORTHEAST FORESTRY UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d INNER MONGOLIA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Community detection; Hotspots estimation; Human mobility; Network properties; Taxi GPS data

Indexed keywords

POPULATION DYNAMICS;

COMMUNITY DETECTION; GPS DATA; HOTSPOTS; HUMAN MOBILITY; NETWORK PROPERTIES;

TAXICABS;

EID: 84976315920     PISSN: 03784371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2016.06.031     Document Type: Article

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