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Showing 1 to 20 of 65 for “"Human mobility"”.
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Understanding human mobility patterns from digital traces
Our current digital age is characterized by the shift from traditional industry to an economy based on the information computerization. The sweeping changes brought about by digital computing have provided new data sources for transportation modeling. In this thesis, two mainstream trends in …
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Human mobility and spatial models for infectious disease
Human mobility is an important determinant for the spatial spread of human infectious diseases such as influenza but obtaining human mobility datasets has historically been difficult. This thesis investigates two ways to represent human mobility in spatial metapopulation models for the spread of …
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Human Mobility Perturbation and Resilience in Natural Disasters
… to predict. Understanding and predicting human movements plays a critical role in disaster evacuation, response and relief. Researchers have developed different methodologies and applied several models to study human mobility patterns, including random walks, Lévy flight, and Brownian …
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A feature-based framework for evaluating synthetic human mobility
Generating realistic human mobility trajectories is essential for applications in urban analytics, transportation planning, and privacy-preserving data sharing. Evaluating the quality of synthetic data remains challenging. This study introduces a feature-based evaluation framework that …
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Strontium isotope tracing of prehistoric human mobility in France
Human mobility in recent history is well documented and often related to drastic external changes, including war, famine, and the discovery and exploration of new geographic regions and resources. Reconstruction of mobility patterns in prehistory is thus a crucial part of understanding the forces …
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Strontium isotope tracing of prehistoric human mobility in France
Human mobility in recent history is well documented and often related to drastic external changes, including war, famine, and the discovery and exploration of new geographic regions and resources. Reconstruction of mobility patterns in prehistory is thus a crucial part of understanding the forces …
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A piezoelectric force measuring system for human mobility analysis.
Thesis: M.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Mechanical Engineering, 1978
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An air-levitated festooning system for the human mobility laboratory.
Thesis. 1977. B.S.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Mechanical Engineering.
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Human mobility and environmental degration: impacts on rural communities in Marocco
… desenvolvimento sustentável omitem a mobilidade humana, assim como outras categorias, inseridas no Mecanismo Internacional de Varsóvia sobre Danos e Perdas. Esta Tese foca-se na região de Souss-Massa e procura descrever as perceções locais em relação à degradação ambiental, incluindo as …
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Advanced space-time integration for knowledge discovery in human mobility studies
… volume of and interest in spatio-temporal mobility data, there is also an increasing need for new methods of analyzing this kind of data. Particularly, considerable effort has been made to characterize human activity-travel patterns from the spatio-temporal mobility data. However, knowledge …
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Tracking Disaster Dynamics for Urban Resilience: Human-Mobility and Semantic Perspectives
… the impact of natural disasters on interactive human-environment systems as well as the dynamic process of resilience, including human mobility, spatial networks, and coupled mobility and sentiment perspectives. In the first, human-mobility perspective, I examine the nuanced impact of a severe …
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A Statistical Framework for Measuring the Temporal Stability of Human Mobility Patterns
Despite the growing popularity of human mobility studies that collect GPS location data, the problem of determining the minimum required length of GPS monitoring has not been addressed in the current statistical literature. In this paper we tackle this problem by laying out a theoretical framework …
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Understanding human mobility patterns through mobile phone records : a cross-cultural study
… this thesis, I present a cross-cultural study on human's trip length distribution and how it might be influenced by regional socio-economic factors, such as population density, income and unemployment rate. Mobile phone records contain very detailed calling information of the spatiotemporal …
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Putting big data in its place : understanding cities and human mobility with new data sources
… that run on them passively record social, mobility, and a variety of other behaviors of their users with extremely high spatial and temporal resolution. This thesis presents a variety of novel methods and analyses to leverage the data generated from these devices to understand human …
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Spatio-temporal patterns of human mobility from geo-social networks for urban computing: Analysis, models & applications
… of rich information about fine-grained user mobility in urban environments from increasingly geographically-aware social networking services and the rapid development of machine learning applications greatly facilitate the investigation of urban issues. In this setting, urban computing …
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Listening to urban sound: A mixed-method approach for understanding human mobility, individual sound exposure, and psychological well-being
… have extensively studied the relationships among human movement, environmental exposure, and their effects on human health. Urbanization brings about ever-growing noise problems in cities. Exposure to high levels of sound is associated with health risks involving annoyance, disturbance, stress, …
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Understanding COVID-19 Induced Responses for Individuals and Businesses: Changes in Human Mobility Patterns and Resilience Tactics by Small Food Businesses
… for addressing the wider effects on urban mobility, food access, and resilience. This dissertation is driven by the overarching question: How has the COVID-19 pandemic reshaped individual's mobility patterns and affected their food access, as well as small businesses' resilience tactics? To …
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Autonomous vehicles : a solution to facilitate human mobility and increase face-to-face interactions : a study inside a large campus organization
… in particular is being disrupted to become mobility services companies instead of car makers. With the unquestionable need of people interacting with each other and the imminent need for innovation for any firm to subsist, the next step is to identify the best way the organization can foster …
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Optimal structures and collective dynamics of human flows in transportation networks.
… the dynamical and structural properties of human mobility within urban environments through the lens of complex systems and network science. Beginning with an introduction to the relevance of studying cities and human mobility, we outline our aim to investigate the interplay between …
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