The growing availability of big geo‐data, such as mobile phone data and location‐based
social media (LBSM), provides new opportunities and challenges for modeling human …

Nighttime vitality has garnered attention in recent years as an important indicator reflecting
urban economy and quality of life. However, it is difficult to characterize this intangible issue …

Location-based social networks (LBSNs) have rapidly prevailed in China with the increase
in smart devices use, which has provided a wide range of opportunities to analyze urban …

ABSTRACT A comprehensive understanding of human mobility patterns in urban areas is
essential for urban development and transportation planning. In this study, we create …

In a location-based social network, users socialize with each other by sharing their current
location in the form of “check-in,” which allows users to reveal the current places they visit as …

The planning ethos of providing proximity-based services to all inhabitants has been
prevailing recently, and underlines the importance of knowing areal differences in collective …

An introduction is presented in which the editor discusses various articles within the issue on
topics including human dynamics research status; data bias in human dynamics research; …

Understanding human movement patterns is crucial for comprehending how a city functions.
It is also important for city planners and policymakers to create more efficient plans and …

The concept of activity spaces is widely used in various research fields, but the reliability
issues of individual activity space measurements remain underexplored. In this study, we …

Destination, as a key concept in tourism geography, has largely determined the scale at
which tourist activity space was modeled and studied. Existing studies usually focused on …