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Characterizing preferred motif choices and distance impacts.
- Source :
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PLoS ONE . 4/16/2019, Vol. 14 Issue 4, p1-17. 17p. - Publication Year :
- 2019
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Abstract
- People’s daily travels are structured and can be expressed as networks. Few studies explore how people organize their daily travels and which behavioral principles result in the choices of specific network types. In this study, we first reconstruct location networks and activity networks for numerous individuals from high-resolution mobile phone positioning data and define frequent networks as motifs. The results suggest that 99.9% of people’s travels can be characterized by a limited set of location-based motifs and activity-based motifs. The results further reveal that the least effort principle governs the preferred motif choices through quantifying the rank-frequency properties. The scaling properties of distance characteristically impact motifs, and their scaling differences by node numbers and motif types coincide with the popularities of motifs, verifying the self-adaptions in motif choices; that is, although individuals travel with unique propensities, they always tend to choose the motif with the lowest consumption that satisfies their demand. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- *ROUTE choice
*CELL phones
*DISTANCES
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 19326203
- Volume :
- 14
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- PLoS ONE
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 135907008
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0215242