Urban Mobility and Social-Spatial Contact-Introduction

Exploring Spatial-Temporal Patterns of Urban Human Mobility Hotspots

Understanding human mobility patterns provides us with knowledge about human mobility in an urban context, which plays a critical role in urban planning, traffic management and the spread of disease. Recently, the availability of large-scale human-sensing datasets enables us to analyze human mobility patterns and the relationships between humans and their living environments on an unprecedented...

Essays on Urban Spatial Structure, Job Search, & Job Mobility

Sustainability analysis of urban neighborhoods with emphasis on spatial and social justice Case Study: Maragheh City

The present paper deals with the analysis and analysis of spatial justice and its relation with social capital using descriptive-analytical research method. To assess spatial justice, the distribution of urban facilities and their per capita amount (per capita of religious, educational, medical, green, cultural, etc.) are used at local level. Then, they have been ranked by the multi-criteria de...

Using Open Data to Analyze Urban Mobility from Social Networks

The need to use online technologies that favor the understanding of city dynamics has grown, mainly due to the ease in obtaining the necessary data, which, in most cases, are gathered with no cost from social networks services. With such facility, the acquisition of georeferenced data has become easier, favoring the interest and feasibility in studying human mobility patterns, bringing new chal...

Mining online social networks with Python to study urban mobility

On-line social networks have grown quickly over the last few years and nowadays many people use them frequently. Furthermore the emergence of smartphones allows to access these networks any time from any physical location. Among the social networks, Twitter offers a particularly large set of data publicly available. Here we discuss the procedure to mine this data and store it in distributed dat...