From the ArcaMax Publishing, Science & Technology Newsletter:
http://www.arcamax.com/news/technology/s-359215-788810
BOSTON (UPI) -- A study using information from cell phones indicates
most people visit the same locations near their homes day after day,
Boston experts say.
Experts at Boston's Northeastern University used information from
100,000 mobile phones in Europe to track people's whereabouts on a
daily basis for a six-month period, The New York Times reported
Thursday.
"Individuals display significant regularity, because they return to a
few highly frequented locations, such as home or work," a researcher
said.
Experts have suggested data from the study could help advance the
fields of urban planning and disease tracking.
"Slices of our behavior are preserved in these electronic data sets.
This is creating huge opportunities for science," said Albert-Laszlo
Barabasi, of the Center for Complex Network Research at Northeastern.