Mobility Inefficiency

Rural and urban areas exhibit distinct mobility patterns, yet a systematic understanding of how these trends differ across regions and contexts remains underexplored.

The process of urbanisation varies across countries and cultures. Countries in the Global South tend to exhibit urbanisation through the growth of small urban settlements, while countries in the Global North do so through population density increases in megacities.

Essential work is needed to infer urban and rural areas using mobility patterns, in order to provide a more coherent framework that can be applied to all countries regardless of their form of urbanisation.

Only few approaches explore mobility patterns across both urban and rural areas, due their fundamentally distinct characteristics.

Comparing rural and urban mobility routing patterns , while also considering their inherently distinct topological and demographic features, remains an outstanding challenge.

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