Brief survey of Mobility Analyses based on Mobile Phone Datasets
This is an incremental survey summarizing existing work for researchers and practitioners in data science and mobility analysis.
The paper surveys research on human mobility using mobile phone datasets, focusing on applications in urban planning, data traffic prediction, network design, epidemiology, and mobility predictability.
This is a brief survey of the research performed by Grandata Labs in collaboration with numerous academic groups around the world on the topic of human mobility. A driving theme in these projects is to use and improve Data Science techniques to understand mobility, as it can be observed through the lens of mobile phone datasets. We describe applications of mobility analyses for urban planning, prediction of data traffic usage, building delay tolerant networks, generating epidemiologic risk maps and measuring the predictability of human mobility.