Correlations and Scaling Laws in Human Mobility

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dc.contributor.authorWang, Xiang-Wenen
dc.contributor.authorHan, Xiao-Puen
dc.contributor.authorWang, Bing-Hongen
dc.contributor.departmentPhysicsen
dc.date.accessioned2018-10-11T13:21:55Zen
dc.date.available2018-10-11T13:21:55Zen
dc.date.issued2014-01-13en
dc.description.abstractBackground In recent years, several path-breaking findings on human mobility patterns point out a novel issue which is of important theoretical significance and great application prospects. The empirical analysis of the data which can reflect the real-world human mobility provides the basic cognition and verification of the theoretical models and predictive results on human mobility. One of the most noticeable findings in previous studies on human mobility is the wide-spread scaling anomalies, e.g. the power-law-like displacement distributions. Understanding the origin of these scaling anomalies is of central importance to this issue and therefore is the focus of our discussion. Methodology/Principal Findings In this paper, we empirically analyze the real-world human movements which are based on GPS records, and observe rich scaling properties in the temporal-spatial patterns as well as an abnormal transition in the speed-displacement patterns together with an evidence to the real-world traffic jams. In addition, we notice that the displacements at the population level show a significant positive correlation, indicating a cascading-like nature in human movements. Furthermore, our analysis at the individual level finds that the displacement distributions of users with stronger correlations usually are closer to the power law, suggesting a correlation between the positive correlation of the displacement series and the form of an individual's displacement distribution. Conclusions/Significance These empirical findings make connections between the two basic properties of human mobility, the scaling anomalies on displacement distributions and the positive correlations on displacement series, implying the cascading-like dynamics which is exhibited by the positive correlations would cause the emergence of scaling properties on human mobility patterns. Our findings would inspire further researches on mechanisms and predictions of human mobility.en
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dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0084954en
dc.identifier.eissn1932-6203en
dc.identifier.issue1en
dc.identifier.othere84954en
dc.identifier.pmid24454769en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/85347en
dc.identifier.volume9en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherPLOSen
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution 4.0 Internationalen
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/en
dc.titleCorrelations and Scaling Laws in Human Mobilityen
dc.title.serialPLOS ONEen
dc.typeArticle - Refereeden
dc.type.dcmitypeTexten

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