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SUBMITTER: Gallotti R
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5013551 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Gallotti Riccardo R Bazzani Armando A Rambaldi Sandro S Barthelemy Marc M
Nature communications 20160830
Recent studies of human mobility largely focus on displacements patterns and power law fits of empirical long-tailed distributions of distances are usually associated to scale-free superdiffusive random walks called Lévy flights. However, drawing conclusions about a complex system from a fit, without any further knowledge of the underlying dynamics, might lead to erroneous interpretations. Here we show, on the basis of a data set describing the trajectories of 780,000 private vehicles in Italy, ...[more]