The predictability of travel patterns
FEB 19, 2010
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.024095
NPR : A new study used cell phone billing data for 50,00 people in a European country to show that people’s travel patterns are extremely predictable. That’s true for both homebodies and jet setters. Regardless of age, language group, and so forth, people’s movements were predictable 93% of the time. The study shows the emerging power of using cell phone data for social science research.
© 2010 American Institute of Physics
