Uncovering patterns of inter-urban trip and spatial interaction from social media check-in data.

The article revisits spatial interaction and distance decay from the perspective of human mobility patterns and spatially-embedded networks based on an empirical data set. We extract nationwide inter-urban movements in China from a check-in data set that covers half a million individuals within 370...

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Main Authors: Yu Liu, Zhengwei Sui, Chaogui Kang, Yong Gao
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3895021?pdf=render