Search Results - "Gonzalez, Marta C."

Sequences of purchases in credit card data reveal lifestyles in urban populations by Di Clemente, Riccardo, Luengo-Oroz, Miguel, Travizano, Matias, Xu, Sharon, Vaitla, Bapu, González, Marta C.

“…Zipf-like distributions characterize a wide set of phenomena in physics, biology, economics, and social sciences. In human activities, Zipf's law describes,…”
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Community energy storage: A smart choice for the smart grid? by Barbour, Edward, Parra, David, Awwad, Zeyad, González, Marta C.

“…•We compare batteries deployed in 4500 individual households with 200 communities.•Using real demand, PV data and locations we form community microgrids.•We…”
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A universal model for mobility and migration patterns by Simini, Filippo, González, Marta C., Maritan, Amos, Barabási, Albert-László

“…A parameter-free model predicts patterns of commuting, phone calls and trade using only population density at all intermediate points. Accurate prediction of…”
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Understanding congested travel in urban areas by Çolak, Serdar, Lima, Antonio, González, Marta C.

“…Rapid urbanization and increasing demand for transportation burdens urban road infrastructures. The interplay of number of vehicles and available road capacity…”
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Clustering daily patterns of human activities in the city by Jiang, Shan, Ferreira, Joseph, González, Marta C.

“…Data mining and statistical learning techniques are powerful analysis tools yet to be incorporated in the domain of urban studies and transportation research…”
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Cities as complex systems-Collection overview by Rybski, Diego, González, Marta C

“…This collection provides a contemporary excerpt of "Cities as complex systems". The contributions have been submitted between April and October 2020. We…”
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Collective benefits in traffic during mega events via the use of information technologies by Xu, Yanyan, González, Marta C.

“…Information technologies today can inform each of us about the route with the shortest time, but they do not contain incentives to manage travellers such that…”
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Projecting battery adoption in the prosumer era by Barbour, Edward, González, Marta C.

“…•We calculate the profitability of residential battery systems.•Available batteries can significantly increase consumer self-sufficiency.•Batteries are…”
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Unravelling daily human mobility motifs by Schneider, Christian M., Belik, Vitaly, Couronné, Thomas, Smoreda, Zbigniew, González, Marta C.

“…Human mobility is differentiated by time scales. While the mechanism for long time scales has been studied, the underlying mechanism on the daily scale is…”
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The TimeGeo modeling framework for urban motility without travel surveys by Jiang, Shan, Yang, Yingxiang, Gupta, Siddharth, Veneziano, Daniele, Athavale, Shounak, González, Marta C

“…Well-established fine-scale urban mobility models today depend on detailed but cumbersome and expensive travel surveys for their calibration. Not much is…”
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Planning for sustainable cities by estimating building occupancy with mobile phones by Barbour, Edward, Davila, Carlos Cerezo, Gupta, Siddharth, Reinhart, Christoph, Kaur, Jasleen, González, Marta C.

“…Accurate occupancy is crucial for planning for sustainable buildings. Using massive, passively-collected mobile phone data, we introduce a novel framework to…”
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Understanding predictability and exploration in human mobility by Cuttone, Andrea, Lehmann, Sune, González, Marta C.

“…Predictive models for human mobility have important applications in many fields including traffic control, ubiquitous computing, and contextual advertisement…”
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The role of geography in the complex diffusion of innovations by Lengyel, Balázs, Bokányi, Eszter, Di Clemente, Riccardo, Kertész, János, González, Marta C.

“…The urban–rural divide is increasing in modern societies calling for geographical extensions of social influence modelling. Improved understanding of…”
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Origin–destination trips by purpose and time of day inferred from mobile phone data by Alexander, Lauren, Jiang, Shan, Murga, Mikel, González, Marta C.

“…•We preprocess mobile phone records of millions of anonymized users.•We estimate average daily origin–destination trips by purpose and time of day.•We compare…”
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Predicting commuter flows in spatial networks using a radiation model based on temporal ranges by Ren, Yihui, Ercsey-Ravasz, Mária, Wang, Pu, González, Marta C., Toroczkai, Zoltán

“…Understanding network flows such as commuter traffic in large transportation networks is an ongoing challenge due to the complex nature of the transportation…”
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Socio-economic, built environment, and mobility conditions associated with crime: a study of multiple cities by De Nadai, Marco, Xu, Yanyan, Letouzé, Emmanuel, González, Marta C., Lepri, Bruno

“…Nowadays, 23% of the world population lives in multi-million cities. In these metropolises, criminal activity is much higher and violent than in either small…”
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Understanding the Spreading Patterns of Mobile Phone Viruses by Wang, Pu, González, Marta C, Hidalgo, César A, Barabási, Albert-László

“…We modeled the mobility of mobile phone users in order to study the fundamental spreading patterns that characterize a mobile virus outbreak. We find that…”
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Understanding Road Usage Patterns in Urban Areas by Wang, Pu, Hunter, Timothy, Bayen, Alexandre M., Schechtner, Katja, González, Marta C.

“…In this paper, we combine the most complete record of daily mobility, based on large-scale mobile phone data, with detailed Geographic Information System (GIS)…”
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Urban attractors: Discovering patterns in regions of attraction in cities by Alhazzani, May, Alhasoun, Fahad, Alawwad, Zeyad, González, Marta C

“…Understanding the dynamics by which urban areas attract visitors is important in today's cities that are continuously increasing in population towards higher…”
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Discovering urban activity patterns in cell phone data by Widhalm, Peter, Yang, Yingxiang, Ulm, Michael, Athavale, Shounak, González, Marta C.

“…Massive and passive data such as cell phone traces provide samples of the whereabouts and movements of individuals. These are a potential source of information…”
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