{"id":123267,"date":"2021-06-01T18:19:26","date_gmt":"2021-06-02T01:19:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/new-universal-law-of-human-mobility"},"modified":"2021-06-01T18:19:26","modified_gmt":"2021-06-02T01:19:26","slug":"new-universal-law-of-human-mobility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/new-universal-law-of-human-mobility","title":{"rendered":"New universal law of human mobility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-universal-law-of-human-mobility.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mapping how humans move will help in future pandemics.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>How people move around cities follows a predictable and universal pattern, scientist say, which will be crucial not only for urban planning but also controlling pandemics.<\/p>\n<p>By analysing mobile-phone tracking data from across four continents, the team confirmed that people visit places more often when they don\u2019t have to travel far to get there.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe might shop every day at a bakery a few hundred metres away, but we\u2019ll only go once a month to the fancy boutique miles away from our neighborhood,\u201d says project leader Carlo Ratti, from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mapping how humans move will help in future pandemics. How people move around cities follows a predictable and universal pattern, scientist say, which will be crucial not only for urban planning but also controlling pandemics. By analysing mobile-phone tracking data from across four continents, the team confirmed that people visit places more often when they [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1965,1512],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-mapping","category-mobile-phones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}