Large-scale GPS location datasets hold immense potential for measuring human mobility
and interpersonal contact, both of which are essential for data-driven epidemiology …

Empiric quantification of human mobility patterns is paramount for better urban planning,
understanding social network structure and responding to infectious disease threats …

Human mobility traces are increasingly used for more realistic evaluation of mobile
(opportunistic) communication systems. Although GPS traces yield the most detailed data …

Collecting GPS data using mobile devices is essential to understanding human mobility.
However, getting this type of data is tricky because of some specific features of mobile …

High resolution mobility datasets have become increasingly available in the past few years
and have enabled detailed models for infectious disease spread including those for COVID …

As countries look toward re-opening of economic activities amidst the ongoing COVID-19
pandemic, ensuring public health has been challenging. While contact tracing only aims to …

Recent pandemic events have greatly emphasized the need to understand how humans
navigate in modern day cities for effective public health policy implementation. In this paper …

The global COVID-19 pandemic has infected public consciousness with a new appreciation
of geospatial analyses in public health. Not since John Snow's 1854 cholera map of London …

Increasingly available high-frequency location datasets derived from smartphones provide
unprecedented insight into trajectories of human mobility. These datasets can play a …

Infectious diseases are transmitted between human hosts when in close contact over space
and time. Recently, an unprecedented amount of spatial and spatiotemporal data have been …