The impact of social segregation on human mobility in developing and industrialized regions

• Published in: EPJ Data Science
• Main Authors: Amini, Alexander A., Kung, Kevin S., Kang, Chaogui, Sobolevsky, Stanislav, Ratti, Carlo
• Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Urban Studies and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. SENSEable City Laboratory
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Springer Science+Business Media 2014
• Subjects: Alta; Wood Buffalo
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/88094

This study leverages mobile phone data to analyze human mobility patterns in a developing nation, especially in comparison to those of a more industrialized nation. Developing regions, such as the Ivory Coast, are marked by a number of factors that may influence mobility, such as less infrastructura...