Urban gravity: a model for inter-city telecommunication flows

We analyze the anonymous communication patterns of 2.5 million customers of a Belgian mobile phone operator. Grouping customers by billing address, we build a social network of cities that consists of communications between 571 cities in Belgium. We show that inter-city communication intensity is ch...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Krings, Gautier, Calabrese, Francesco, Ratti, Carlo, Blondel, Vincent D.
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Urban Studies and Planning
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: IOP Publishing 2013
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/77162
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2026-5631