The origin of human heterogeneity: analyzing mobility behavior through GSM and GPS data

In the present work, we present a macro-micro analysis of human mobility conducted on two dierent datasets. The rst one is a GSM dataset collected by a European mobile phone carrier for billing and operational purposes. It contains date, time and coordinates of the phone tower routing the communication for each call and text message sent or received by 91; 000 customers, in a period of 3 months. The other one is a GPS dataset storing information of approximately 9; 8 Million dierent car travels from 159; 000 cars tracked during one month (May 2011) in an area corresponding to central Italy.