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Mobility Signatures: A Tool for Characterizing Cities Using Intercity Mobility Flows.

Maryam Astero¹, Zhiren Huang¹, Jari Saramäki^1,2

¹Department of Computer Science, Aalto University, Espoo, Finland.

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We introduce the mobility signature, a new tool to analyze human movement patterns between cities. This method reveals how cities connect within larger networks and effectively captures mobility changes, even during events like the COVID-19 pandemic.

Keywords:

COVID-19 OD matrix collective human mobility mobile phones mobility signature travel patterns

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Area of Science:

Urban planning and transportation science
Epidemiology and public health
Data science and network analysis

Background:

Understanding inter-city human mobility is crucial for transport engineering and disease spread modeling.
Existing models like the gravity model have limitations in capturing complex mobility patterns.
A novel approach is needed to analyze how cities integrate into broader mobility networks.

Purpose of the Study:

To introduce and validate the 'mobility signature' as a data-driven tool for quantifying inter-city human mobility patterns.
To assess the performance of different mobility models (radiation vs. gravity) based on city size.
To demonstrate the utility of mobility signatures in identifying pandemic-induced disruptions to human movement.

Main Methods:

Utilized mobile-phone-based data from Finland to analyze human mobility flows.
Developed and applied the 'mobility signature' concept to a city-centric perspective.
Compared the predictive accuracy of the radiation and gravity models for different city populations.
Analyzed mobility data from spring 2020 to assess the impact of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic.

Main Results:

Mobility signatures effectively characterize a city's position within the wider mobility network.
The radiation model showed higher accuracy for larger Finnish cities, while the gravity model better fit less populated areas.
Significant disruptions in Finnish mobility patterns were observed during the spring 2020 SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, as captured by mobility signatures.

Conclusions:

The mobility signature is a powerful tool for understanding urban mobility networks and their dynamics.
It offers a more nuanced understanding of mobility patterns than traditional models, especially concerning city size variations.
Mobility signatures can rapidly detect significant shifts in human movement, such as those caused by major public health crises.