期刊
NATURE
卷 484, 期 7392, 页码 96-100出版社
NATURE PORTFOLIO
DOI: 10.1038/nature10856
关键词
-
资金
- Cariparo foundation
- Network Science Collaborative Technology Alliance
- US Army Research Laboratory [W911NF-09-2-0053]
- Office of Naval Research [N000141010968]
- Defense Threat Reduction Agency [WMD BRBAA07-J-2-0035, BRBAA08-Per4-C-2-0033]
- James S. McDonnell Foundation 21st Century Initiative in Studying Complex Systems
Introduced in its contemporary form in 1946 (ref. 1), but with roots that go back to the eighteenth century(2), the gravity law(1,3,4) is the prevailing framework with which to predict population movement(3,5,6), cargo shipping volume(7) and inter-city phone calls(8,9), as well as bilateral trade flows between nations(10). Despite its widespread use, it relies on adjustable parameters that vary from region to region and suffers from known analytic inconsistencies. Here we introduce a stochastic process capturing local mobility decisions that helps us analytically derive commuting and mobility fluxes that require as input only information on the population distribution. The resulting radiation model predicts mobility patterns in good agreement with mobility and transport patterns observed in a wide range of phenomena, from long-term migration patterns to communication volume between different regions. Given its parameter-free nature, the model can be applied in areas where we lack previous mobility measurements, significantly improving the predictive accuracy of most of the phenomena affected by mobility and transport processes(11-23).
作者
我是这篇论文的作者
点击您的名字以认领此论文并将其添加到您的个人资料中。
推荐
暂无数据