Individual mobility
How humans move within a network / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article is about demographic research term. For term used in social identity theory, see Social identity theory § Individual mobility.
Individual human mobility is the study that describes how individual humans move within a network or system.[1] The concept has been studied in a number of fields originating in the study of demographics. Understanding human mobility has many applications in diverse areas, including spread of diseases,[2][3] mobile viruses,[4] city planning,[5][6][7] traffic engineering,[8][9] financial market forecasting,[10] and nowcasting of economic well-being.[11][12]