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Marta Gonzalez on Modeling Human Mobility

Presented by Transportation@MIT

Laurie Everett | MIT World

April 29, 2010

Marta González explains how researchers who wish to study mobility patterns are depending on data from cell phones that are equipped with locational receivers (Global Positioning Systems or GPS). Their bread crumb trails are opening up entirely new ways to study and predict the dynamics of travel.

(From MIT World)

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