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Using Human Mobility Data To Quantify Experienced Urban Inequalities.

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Using Human Mobility Data To Quantify Experienced Urban Inequalities.

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Using human mobility data to quantify experienced urban inequalities.

Fengli Xu¹, Qi Wang², Esteban Moro^3,4

¹Department of Electronic Engineering, Beijing National Research Center for Information Science and Technology (BNRist), Tsinghua University, Beijing, P. R. China. fenglixu@tsinghua.edu.cn.

Nature Human Behaviour

|February 17, 2025

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Urban mobility data reveals experienced inequalities in social mixing, access to facilities, and adaptation to events. This research offers a new framework to track dynamic urban inequality through people-place networks.

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Area of Science:

Urban Studies
Sociology
Data Science

Background:

Urban life is shaped by personal mobility, access to resources, and social dynamics.
Inequality and segregation are significant aspects of the urban experience.
Fine-grained mobility data offers new insights into experienced inequalities at scale.

Purpose of the Study:

To review emerging uses of urban mobility behavior data.
To propose an analytic framework for understanding experienced urban inequality.
To track dynamic inequalities through people-place network analysis.

Main Methods:

Utilizing fine-grained mobility data and contextual attributes.
Developing a temporal bipartite network model representing people and places.

Analyzing network reconfiguration to track inequality dimensions.

Main Results:

The proposed framework allows tracking experienced inequality across social mixing, facility access, and adaptation to events.
Mobility patterns reveal dynamic, lived experiences of urban inequality.
This approach complements existing studies on static inequalities.

Conclusions:

Urban mobility data, analyzed through a temporal bipartite network, provides a powerful lens for understanding experienced inequality.
The framework enables dynamic tracking of social mixing, access, and resilience in urban environments.
This research highlights the potential of data-driven approaches to reveal and address urban disparities.