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Discovering the Geographical Borders of Human Mobility

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The availability of massive network and mobility data from diverse domains has fostered the analysis of human behavior and interactions. Broad, extensive, and multidisciplinary research has been devoted to the extraction of non-trivial knowledge from this novel form of data. We propose a general method to determine the influence of social and mobility behavior over a specific geographical area in order to evaluate to what extent the current administrative borders represent the real basin of human movement. We build a network representation of human movement starting with vehicle GPS tracks and extract relevant clusters, which are then mapped back onto the territory, finding a good match with the existing administrative borders. The novelty of our approach is the focus on a detailed spatial resolution, we map emerging borders in terms of individual municipalities, rather than macro regional or national areas. We present a series of experiments to illustrate and evaluate the effectiveness of our approach.

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Acknowledgements

The authors wish to thank Alessandro Grossi and Michele Berlingerio for their technical support. We also acknowledge Octo Telematics S.p.A. for providing the datasets. The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Union Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) under grant agreement No. 270833.

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  1. Department of Information Engineering, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy

    Simone Mainardi & Fabio Pezzoni

  2. ISTI-CNR, Pisa, Italy

    Salvatore Rinzivillo, Michele Coscia & Fosca Giannotti

  3. Department of Informatics, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy

    Dino Pedreschi

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Rinzivillo, S., Mainardi, S., Pezzoni, F. et al. Discovering the Geographical Borders of Human Mobility. Künstl Intell 26, 253–260 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13218-012-0181-8

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