Travel with Waiting Time and Distance Distributions

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This Demonstration models human travel in which the user gets to select the distributions from which (1) random resting times are drawn and (2) random distance jumps are drawn. Such models have been shown to realistically model modern human behavior and are useful in, among other matters, predicting the spread of epidemics.
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Contributed by: Seth J. Chandler (March 2011)
Open content licensed under CC BY-NC-SA
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This Demonstration is inspired by D. Brockmann, L. Hufnagel, and T. Geisel, "The Scaling Laws of Human Travel," Nature, 439(7075), 2006 pp. 462–465, (also available here), and the further work of these scholars.
The abstract world examined in this Demonstration has periodic boundaries.
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