Customer mobility and congestion in supermarkets
@article{Ying2019CustomerMA, title={Customer mobility and congestion in supermarkets}, author={Fabian Ying and Alisdair O. G. Wallis and Mariano Beguerisse-D{\'i}az and Mason A. Porter and Sam D. Howison}, journal={Physical review. E}, year={2019}, volume={100 6-1}, pages={ 062304 } }
The analysis and characterization of human mobility using population-level mobility models is important for numerous applications, ranging from the estimation of commuter flows in cities to modeling trade flows between countries. However, almost all of these applications have focused on large spatial scales, which typically range between intracity scales and intercountry scales. In this paper, we investigate population-level human mobility models on a much smaller spatial scale by using them to…
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