Nature Communications (Aug 2019)

Field theory for recurrent mobility

  • Mattia Mazzoli,
  • Alex Molas,
  • Aleix Bassolas,
  • Maxime Lenormand,
  • Pere Colet,
  • José J. Ramasco

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-11841-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Systematic methods to characterize human mobility can lead to more accurate forecasting of epidemic spreading and better urban planning. Here the authors present a methodology to analyse daily commuting data by representing it with an irrotational vector field and a corresponding scalar potential.