Understanding the regularity and variability of human mobility from geo-trajectory

Yunji Liang, Xingshe Zhou, Bin Guo, Zhiwen Yu

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Abstract

Over the last few years, many efforts have been devoted to revealing human mobility patterns. However, the regularity and variability of human mobility from a microscopic view, i.e., what factors affect human mobility patterns, has yet not been investigated. In this paper, we aim to study the impact factors that may affect the regularity and variability of human mobility patterns using social network analysis. Specifically, we introduce the spatial interaction matrix to represent the interaction strength and interaction semantics among spatial regions. Based on the spatial interaction matrix, we investigate the factors that impact the mobility patterns, including temporal factors, occupational factors and age factors. Our experimental results demonstrate that lots of factors such as environmental, temporal and age factors contribute to the shape of human mobility patterns.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 2012 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence, WI 2012
Pages409-414
Number of pages6
DOIs
StatePublished - 2012
Event2012 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence, WI 2012 - Macau, China
Duration: 4 Dec 20127 Dec 2012

Publication series

NameProceedings - 2012 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence, WI 2012

Conference

Conference2012 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence, WI 2012
Country/TerritoryChina
CityMacau
Period4/12/127/12/12

Keywords

  • geo-trajectory
  • human mobility patterns
  • regularity and variability
  • spatial interaction matrix

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