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20182026
most citedA universal opportunity model for human mobility

77 citations · 125 across the 6 of their papers we have counts for

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6 papers

physics.soc-ph2026

Economic Distance Structures Urban Mobility in 109 U.S. Cities

Wei-Peng Nie, Xiao-Yong Yan, Bin Jia +4

Urban mobility promises social integration, yet daily movement is systematically constrained by socioeconomic hierarchies. Introducing "economic distance"--the continuous income ga…

physics.soc-ph2023

A generalized vector-field framework for mobility

Erjian Liu, Mattia Mazzoli, Xiao-Yong Yan +1

Trip flow between areas is a fundamental metric for human mobility research. Given its identification with travel demand and its relevance for transportation and urban planning, ma…

physics.soc-ph2022

Structure and evolution of urban heavy truck mobility networks

Yitao Yang, Bin Jia, Erjian Liu +4

Revealing the structural properties and understanding the evolutionary mechanisms of the urban heavy truck mobility network (UHTMN) provide insights in assessment of freight polici…

physics.soc-ph2021

An interactive city choice model and its application for measuring the intercity interaction

Xiang-Yu Jia, Er-Jian Liu, Chun-Yan Chen +1

Measuring the interaction between cities is an important research topic in many disciplines, such as sociology, geography, economics and transportation science. The traditional and…

physics.soc-ph2020★ 77 cited

A universal opportunity model for human mobility

Er-Jian Liu, Xiao-Yong Yan

Predicting human mobility between locations has practical applications in transportation science, spatial economics, sociology and many other fields. For more than 100 years, many…

physics.soc-ph2018★ 48 cited

New parameter-free mobility model: Opportunity priority selection model

Erjian Liu, Xiao-Yong Yan

Predicting human mobility patterns has many practical applications in urban planning, traffic engineering, infectious disease epidemiology, emergency management and location-based…