Urban Human Mobility

This comprehensive handbook covers human mobility within urban contexts, integrating academic theories with pragmatic insights and offering a detailed analysis of the diverse facets of human mobility and its substantial impact on the urban landscape, economy, and societal structures. It explains key fundamental concepts, methods, and models, presenting an in-depth exploration of predictive analytics, clustering patterns, advanced trajectory embedding techniques, artificial intelligence, machine learning, geographic information systems (GIS), Internet of Things (IoT), and smart city innovations. The authors include many case studies and examples of urban mobility in practice, making the content relatable and practical for educators, students, researchers, and practitioners. Features Provides a multidisciplinary and holistic understanding of urban mobility with systematic introductions and discussions of theory, methods, technologies, tools, and applications. Covers a wide range of real-world case studies of urban mobility in practice globally that include data, programming code, and tools. Discusses cutting-edge technologies involved in mobility data analytics. Addresses practical challenges in data collection and the ethical implications of mobility research, which are crucial for professionals in the field. Offers future directions of human mobility research under the big data and artificial intelligence (AI) revolution. Urban Human Mobility: Practices, Analytics, and Strategies for Smart Cities is for professionals, academics, and upper-level undergraduate and graduate students in the fields of urban planning/design, GIScience, data mining, and social sciences.