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ArticleScientific reports2020

Universal scaling laws of collective human flow patterns in urban regions.

Yohei Shida, Hideki Takayasu, Shlomo Havlin, Misako Takayasu

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Article in Scientific reports, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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Yohei ShidaDepartment of Mathematical and Computing Science, School of Computing, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama, 226-8502, Japan.
Hideki TakayasuSony Computer Science Laboratories, Tokyo, 141-0022, Japan.
Shlomo HavlinDepartment of Physics, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, 52900, Israel.
Misako TakayasuDepartment of Mathematical and Computing Science, School of Computing, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama, 226-8502, Japan. takayasu.m.aa@m.titech.ac.jp.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Detail observation of human locations became available recently by the development of information technology such as mobile phones with GPS (Global Positioning System). We analyzed temporal changes of global human flow patterns in urban regions based on mobile phones' GPS data in 9 large cities in Japan. By applying a new concept of drainage basins in analogous to river flow patterns, we discovered several universal scaling relations. These include, the number of moving people in a drainage basin of diameter L is proportional to [Formula: see text] in the morning rush hour, which is surprisingly different from reasonable intuition of proportionality to the 2 dimensional area, [Formula: see text]. We show that this unexpected 3 dimensional feature is related to the strong attraction of the city center to become a 3 dimensional structure due skyscrapers.

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Population DensityAlgorithmsCell PhoneCitiesGeographic Information SystemsHumansJapanRiversUrbanizationUrban Population

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PMID33293581
PMCPMC7722863

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