Fundamental Spatial Parameters of Human Mobility

A set of parameters for characterizing spatial aspects of human mobility are presented. The parameters are extracted from a large set of crowd-sourced cellular data which were collected in a major metropolitan area of United States. Each parameter is analyzed at three different time scales (daily, weekly, and monthly time scale). The results demonstrate that human mobility on a population scale has a high degree of statistical regularity. The mobility may be described to a great extend using a limited number of judiciously selected parameters.