Wanderlust :: MIT Senseable City Lab
This simple and intuitive idea inspires researchers at Senseable City Lab to develop a precise and quantitative description of human mobility, concentrate simultaneously on the temporal and spatial spectrum of mobility fluxes, which is sufficient to fully reproduce real-world data, thus opening up unprecedented possibilities for transportation planning, epidemic modeling, and urban design. "the universal law of human mobility" By examining large-scale cellphone data, SCL researchers have analyzed the movement of people in the metro areas of Abidjan, Ivory Coast; Boston; Braga, Lisbon, and Porto, Portugal; Dakar, Senegal; and Singapore. They found that the flows to all locations in a given city follow a predictable and universal pattern, that is: the number of visitors to any location decreases as the inverse square of the product of their visiting frequency and travel distance. This simple and robust scaling law enables us to predict not only the total number of trips but also how many
This simple and intuitive idea inspires researchers at Senseable City Lab to develop a precise and quantitative description of human mobility, concentrate simultaneously on the temporal and spatial spectrum of mobility fluxes, which is sufficient to fully reproduce real-world data, thus opening up unprecedented possibilities for transportation planning, epidemic modeling, and urban design. "the universal law of human mobility" By examining large-scale cellphone data, SCL researchers have analyzed the movement of people in the metro areas of Abidjan, Ivory Coast; Boston; Braga, Lisbon, and Port
Explore this link on the map →