Human mobility and transport networks

  • IFISC Seminar

  • Aleix Bassolas
  • IFISC
  • Nov. 30, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
  • IFISC Seminar Room
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We present the recent advances in human mobility, studying its properties at different scales of time and space using different methods, and transportation networks in cities, studying their robustness to large crowds in special events. Using datasets extracted from ICT technologies we study the atractiveness of touristic sites, identifying first of all the place of residence of the users. We will rank the touristic sites based on the spatial distribution of the visitors’ place of residence. Regarding urban and interurban mobility we present a systematic comparison of models and laws to better understand trip distributions. Concerning transportation networks, we build a simplified model to simulate the use of the public transport system in a city and study how cities recover from perturbations. After big events, where we find large crowds in small places of the city, many people that depart from the same origin at the same time need to reach their destination and it is not clear yet the effect that this can produce in the network. This perturbation can lead to big delays and it becomes important to understand how the recovery times change with the place of the city under different perturbations. Finally to understand how the mobility in a city changes under different policies, we use a more complex model (MATSim) to simulate the full mobility in a city, implementing all transport modalities that can be used.


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