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
Self-similarity of mobility networks
Ying-Yue Lyu, Xiao-Yong Yan, Bin Jia +3
Mobility systems of people and goods are inherently multi-scale, spanning levels of organization from individual cities to regions and nations. Understanding whether mobility netwo…
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…