Human mobility is not scale-free

Brockmann2006scaling reported a power-law distribution of human movements by using dollar-bill movement data (where’s George). Gonzalez2008understanding argues that the power-law is the result of combining individual jump distribution with different scales. Bagrow2012mesoscopic introduces the concept of “habitat” that connect microscopic mobility and macroscopic mobility. Alessandretti2020scales argues that there exists day-to-day human mobility contain meaningful scales and provides a model.

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