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20092011
most citedScaling of Geographic Space as a Universal Rule for Map Generalization

63 citations · 110 across the 5 of their papers we have counts for

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physics.data-an2011★ 20 cited

Exploring Human Mobility Patterns Based on Location Information of US Flights

Bin Jiang, Tao Jia

A range of early studies have been conducted to illustrate human mobility patterns using different tracking data, such as dollar notes, cell phones and taxicabs. Here, we explore h…

physics.data-an2011★ 63 cited

Scaling of Geographic Space as a Universal Rule for Map Generalization

Bin Jiang, Xintao Liu, Tao Jia

Map generalization is a process of producing maps at different levels of detail by retaining essential properties of the underlying geographic space. In this paper, we explore how…

physics.data-an2010★ 26 cited

Measuring Urban Sprawl Based on Massive Street Nodes and the Novel Concept of Natural Cities

Tao Jia, Bin Jiang

In this paper, we develop a novel approach to measuring urban sprawl based on street nodes and naturally defined urban boundaries, both extracted from massive volunteered geographi…

physics.data-an2010★ 1 cited

Zipf's Law for All the Natural Cities in the United States: A Geospatial Perspective

Bin Jiang, Tao Jia

This paper provides a new geospatial perspective on whether or not Zipf's law holds for all cities or for the largest cities in the United States using a massive dataset and its co…

physics.data-an2009

Agent-based Simulation of Human Movement Shaped by the Underlying Street Structure

Bin Jiang, Tao Jia

Relying on random and purposive moving agents, we simulated human movement in large street networks. We found that aggregate flow, assigned to individual streets, is mainly shaped…