3 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-ph2026
Scaling law of individual urban tour behavior
Xu-Jie Lin, Yitao Yang, Wei-Peng Nie +1
Analyzing and modeling the mobility process with tour behavior is fundamental to understanding a wide range of complex systems, including animal foraging, human mobility and freigh…
physics.soc-ph2025
Deconstructing Mobility Segregation: A Network Analysis of Racialized Flows in Pandemic-Era NYC
Wei-Peng Nie, Tian-Rong Ding, Xiao-Yong Yan +2
Urban segregation research has long relied on residential patterns, yet growing evidence suggests that racial/ethnic segregation also manifests systematically in mobility behaviors…