If you want to understand how disease spreads, you need to understand how humans travel, because a lot of the time humans carry the disease from one place to the next. It's clear people travel long distances less often, but make a lot of short trips, but what are the details How often are trips of a certain distance made
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The aim of our study was to be able to attach a number to human traveling behavior. If you want to understand how modern epidemics spread, you need to make some assumptions about how humans spread.Dirk Brockmann
This is a very good estimate of how humans travel.
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There are some universal rules governing human travel and they can be used to develop a new class of model for the spread of infectious disease.
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I think the greater significance of this is that human travel ... obeys some quite simple, independent rules.
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