Understanding individual human mobility patterns
NaturePublished 1 March 2009
Marta C. González, César A. Hidalgo, Albert-Ĺaszló Barabási
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The human mobility study relied on an anonymized billing dataset that was previously recorded by a mobile provider as required by law and billing purposes, and not for the purposes of this project.
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NatureUnderstanding individual human mobility patterns
6,079 Citations2008Marta C. González, César A. Hidalgo +1 more
The trajectory of 100,000 anonymized mobile phone users whose position is tracked for a six-month period is studied, finding that, in contrast with the random trajectories predicted by the prevailing Lévy flight and random walk models, human trajectories show a high degree of temporal and spatial regularity.