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most citedUniversal Predictability of Mobility Patterns in Cities

180 citations · 619 across the 21 of their papers we have counts for

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21 papers

physics.soc-ph2026

Mechanism underlying the scaling law of home-return probability in human mobility

Haoying Niu, Xiao-Yong Yan

Individual daily mobility exhibits a striking scaling law: the probability of returning home after a tour of locations decays as . While the tour-ter…

physics.soc-ph2023

Quantifying the overall characteristics of urban mobility considering spatial information

Hao Wang, Pengjun Zhao, Xiao-Yong Yan

Quantification of the overall characteristics of urban mobility using coarse-grained methods is crucial for urban management, planning and sustainable development. Although some re…

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…

stat.AP2021

Identifying intercity freight trip ends of heavy trucks from GPS data

Yitao Yang, Bin Jia, Xiao-Yong Yan +3

The intercity freight trips of heavy trucks are important data for transportation system planning and urban agglomeration management. In recent decades, the extraction of freight t…

cs.OH2021

Identifying intracity freight trip ends from heavy truck GPS trajectories

Yitao Yang, Bin Jia, Xiao-Yong Yan +3

Intracity heavy truck freight trips are basic data in city freight system planning and management. In the big data era, massive heavy truck GPS trajectories can be acquired cost ef…

physics.soc-ph2021★ 1 cited

Describing traveler choice behavior using the free utility model

Hao Wang, Xiao-Yong Yan

Travel demand forecasting is an essential part of transportation planning and management. The four-step travel model is the traditional and most-common procedure utilized for trave…

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★ 13 cited

Free utility model for explaining the social gravity law

Hao Wang, Xiao-Yong Yan, Jinshan Wu

Social gravity law widely exists in human travel, population migration, commodity trade, information communication, scientific collaboration and so on. Why is there such a simple l…

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★ 4 cited

Human migration patterns in large scale spatial with the resume data

Qi Nie, Jian-Jun Wu, Xiao-Yong Yan +2

Researches on the human mobility have made great progress in many aspects, but the long-term and long-distance migration behavior is lack of in-depth and extensive research because…

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…

physics.soc-ph2018★ 45 cited

Destination Choice Game: A Spatial Interaction Theory on Human Mobility

Xiao-Yong Yan, Tao Zhou

With remarkable significance in migration prediction, global disease mitigation, urban planning and many others, an arresting challenge is to predict human mobility fluxes between…

cs.CL2017★ 8 cited

Benford's Law and First Letter of Word

Xiaoyong Yan, Seong-Gyu Yang, Beom Jun Kim +1

A universal First-Letter Law (FLL) is derived and described. It predicts the percentages of first letters for words in novels. The FLL is akin to Benford's law (BL) of first digits…

physics.soc-ph2017★ 6 cited

Evolutionary of Online Social Networks Driven by Pareto Wealth Distribution and Bidirectional Preferential Attachment

Bin Zhou, Xiao-Yong Yan, Xiao-Ke Xu +2

Understanding of evolutionary mechanism of online social networks is greatly significant for the development of network science. However, present researches on evolutionary mechani…

cs.CL2017★ 5 cited

The Dependence of Frequency Distributions on Multiple Meanings of Words, Codes and Signs

Xiaoyong Yan, Petter Minnhagen

The dependence of the frequency distributions due to multiple meanings of words in a text is investigated by deleting letters. By coding the words with fewer letters the number of…

physics.soc-ph2015★ 30 cited

Universal underpinning of human mobility in the real world and cyberspace

Yi-Ming Zhao, An Zeng, Xiao-Yong Yan +2

Human movements in the real world and in cyberspace affect not only dynamical processes such as epidemic spreading and information diffusion but also social and economical activiti…

physics.soc-ph2014★ 7 cited

Randomness versus specifics for word-frequency distributions

Xiao-Yong Yan, Petter Minnhagen

The text-length-dependence of real word-frequency distributions can be connected to the general properties of a random book. It is pointed out that this finding has strong implicat…

physics.soc-ph2013★ 180 cited

Universal Predictability of Mobility Patterns in Cities

Xiao-Yong Yan, Chen Zhao, Ying Fan +2

Despite the long history of modelling human mobility, we continue to lack a highly accurate approach with low data requirements for predicting mobility patterns in cities. Here, we…

physics.soc-ph2013

Cascading Walks Model for Human Mobility Patterns

Xiao-Pu Han, Xiang-Wen Wang, Xiao-Yong Yan +1

Uncovering the mechanism behind the scaling law in human trajectories is of fundamental significance in understanding many spatio-temporal phenomena. In combination of the explorat…

physics.soc-ph2012★ 170 cited

Diversity of individual mobility patterns and emergence of aggregated scaling laws

Xiao-Yong Yan, Xiao-Pu Han, Bing-Hong Wang +1

Uncovering human mobility patterns is of fundamental importance to the understanding of epidemic spreading, urban transportation and other socioeconomic dynamics embodying spatiali…

physics.soc-ph2010★ 25 cited

Exact solution of gyration radius of individual's trajectory for a simplified human mobility model

Xiao-Yong Yan, Xiao-Pu Han, Tao Zhou +1

Gyration radius of individual's trajectory plays a key role in quantifying human mobility patterns. Of particular interests, empirical analyses suggest that the growth of gyration…