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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…