A stochastic model of randomly accelerated walkers for human mobility

Many human mobility studies have shown empirically long-tailed distance distributions, which are usually associated to Lévy flights. Here, the authors show that the behavior of private vehicles could be misinterpreted as Lévy flights but is fully captured by a class of accelerated random walks.

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Main Authors: Riccardo Gallotti, Armando Bazzani, Sandro Rambaldi, Marc Barthelemy
Format: article
Language:EN
Published: Nature Portfolio 2016
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/a5a6ecc5b77e456b8cf83bb0a5cb40bb
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Summary:Many human mobility studies have shown empirically long-tailed distance distributions, which are usually associated to Lévy flights. Here, the authors show that the behavior of private vehicles could be misinterpreted as Lévy flights but is fully captured by a class of accelerated random walks.