Human mobility modelling: exploration and preferential return meet the gravity model
Pappalardo L., Rinzivillo S., Simini F.
Data Science General Environmental Science Human Mobility Mobility Modeling General Earth and Planetary Sciences
Modeling the properties of individual human mobility is a challenging task that has received increasing attention in the last decade. Since mobility is a complex system, when modeling individual human mobility one should take into account that human movements at a collective level influence, and are influenced by, human movement at an individual level. In this paper we propose the d-EPR model, which exploits collective information and the gravity model to drive the movements of an individual and the exploration of new places on the mobility space. We implement our model to simulate the mobility of thousands synthetic individuals, and compare the synthetic movements with real trajectories of mobile phone users and synthetic trajectories produced by a prominent individual mobility model. We show that the distributions of global mobility measures computed on the trajectories produced by the d-EPR model are much closer to empirical data, highlighting the importance of considering collective information when simulating individual human mobility.
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@inproceedings{oai:it.cnr:prodotti:424160,
title = {Human mobility modelling: exploration and preferential return meet the gravity model},
author = {Pappalardo L. and Rinzivillo S. and Simini F.},
doi = {10.1016/j.procs.2016.04.188},
booktitle = {7th International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies, ANT 2016; 6th International Conference on Sustainable Energy Information Technology, SEIT 2016;, pp. 934–939, Madrid (ES), 23-26 Maggio 2016},
year = {2016}
}
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