Human Mobility

Climate Change Could Have Negative Effect on Great Lakes Travel
We used machine learning models to predict possible changes in the structure of transportation networks due to climate change. A team in Professor Luís A. Nunes Amaral’s lab simulated the impact of losing 67 percent of direct air routes
Northwestern University
Aug 1, 2022 3 min read Media coverage
Climate Change Could Have Negative Effect on Great Lakes Travel
Forecasting the evolution of fast-changing transportation networks using machine learning
Transportation networks play a critical role in human mobility and the exchange of goods, but they are also the primary vehicles for …
Weihua Lei, Luiz G. A. Alves, Luís A. N. Amaral
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Forecasting the evolution of fast-changing transportation networks using machine learning
Commuting network effect on urban wealth scaling
Urban scaling theory explains the increasing returns to scale of urban wealth indicators by the per capita increase of human …
Luiz G. A. Alves, Diego Rybski, Haroldo V. Ribeiro
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Commuting network effect on urban wealth scaling
Centrality anomalies in complex networks as a result of model over-simplification
Tremendous advances have been made in our understanding of the properties and evolution of complex networks. These advances were …
Luiz G. A. Alves, Alberto Aleta, Francisco A. Rodrigues, Yamir Moreno, Luís A. N. Amaral
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Centrality anomalies in complex networks as a result of model over-simplification
Reconstructing commuters network using machine learning and urban indicators
Human mobility has a significant impact on several layers of society, from infrastructural planning and economics to the spread of …
Gabriel Spadon, André C. P. L. F. de Carvalho, José F. Rodrigues-Jr, Luiz G. A. Alves
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Reconstructing commuters network using machine learning and urban indicators