New Approaches to Human Mobility: Using Mobile Phones for Demographic Research.

This article explores new methods for gathering and analyzing spatially rich demographic data using mobile phones. It describes a pilot study (the Human Mobility Project) in which volunteers around the world were successfully recruited to share GPS and cellular tower information on their trajectorie...

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Published in:Demography (Springer Nature) Vol. 50; no. 3; pp. 1105 - 1129
Main Authors: Palmer, John, Espenshade, Thomas, Bartumeus, Frederic, Chung, Chang, Ozgencil, Necati, Li, Kathleen
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Published: Springer Nature Jun2013
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