Characterizing Human Mobility Patterns in a Large Street Network

Details Characterizing Human Mobility Patterns in a Large Street Network Characterizing Human Mobility Patterns in a Large Street Network

2008-09-29

arxiv.org/abs/0809.5001v2

Physical Review E, 80, 021136, 2009

Physics

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability

13 figures, 17 pages

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevE.80.021136

Previous studies demonstrated empirically that human mobility exhibits Levy flight behaviour. However, our knowledge of the mechanisms governing this Levy flight behaviour remains limited. Here we analyze over 72 000 people's moving trajectories, obtained from 50 taxicabs during a six-month period in a large street network, and illustrate that the human mobility pattern, or the Levy flight behaviour, is mainly attributed to the underlying street network. In other words, the goal-directed nature of human movement has little effect on the overall traffic distribution. We further simulate the mobility of a large number of random walkers, and find that (1) the simulated random walkers can reproduce the same human mobility pattern, and (2) the simulated mobility rate of the random walkers correlates pretty well (an R square up to 0.87) with the observed human mobility rate.

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