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Modeling human mobility is a critical task in fields such as urban planning, ecology, and epidemiology. Given the current use of mobile phones, there is an abundance of data that can be used to create models of high reliability. Existing techniques can reveal the macro-patterns of crowd movement, or analyze the trajectory of an individual object; however, they focus on geographical characteristics. In this paper, we propose a novel data representation, the mobility transition graph, to characterize spatio-temporal mobility transition of crowd from city-wide human mobility data. We describe the design, creation, and manipulation of the mobility transition graph and demonstrate the efficiency of our approach by a case study.
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This work is supported by the National 973 Program of China (2015CB352503), National Natural Science Foundation of China (61232012, 61422211), and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities. Ross Maciejewski is supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 1350573.
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Wu, F., Zhu, M., Wang, Q. et al. Spatial–temporal visualization of city-wide crowd movement. J Vis 20, 183–194 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12650-016-0368-4
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