Measures of Human Mobility Using Mobile Phone Records Enhanced with GIS Data.

ABSTRACT: In the past decade, large scale mobile phone data have become available for the study of human movement patterns. These data hold an immense promise for understanding human behavior on a vast scale, and with a precision and accuracy never before possible with censuses, surveys or other existing data collection techniques. There is already a significant body of literature that has made key inroads into understanding human mobility using this exciting new data source, and there have been several different measures of mobility used. However, existing mobile phone based mobility measures are inconsistent, inaccurate, and confounded with social characteristics of local context. New measures would best be developed immediately as they will influence future studies of mobility using mobile phone

SUBMITTER: Williams NE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4507852 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature