Laboratory

Migration and Mobility

At a Glance Projects Publications Team

Project

Analyzing Human Mobility with High-Resolution Mobile Network Data: From Disease Vector Spread to Urban Accessibility (Dissertation)

Egor Kotov, Daniela Perrotta, Emilio Zagheni, John Palmer (Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, Spain), Frederic Bartumeus (Centre d'Estudis Avançats de Blanes (CSIC - CEAB), Spain)

This research uses high-resolution mobile phone mobility data to investigate how spatial accessibility shapes human movement and how population travel influences the spread of disease-transmitting mosquitoes, bridging urban transport dynamics with vector surveillance.  Detailed Description

Publications

Kotov, E.; Pardo-Araujo, M.; Eritja, R.; Bartumeus, F.:

A causal analysis of human mobility on colonization of disease-carrying tiger mosquitoes in Spain

29th AGILE Conference on Geographic Information Science, Tartu. (2026)    

Kotov, E.; Vidal-Tortosa, E.; García Cantú Ros, O.; Burrieza-Galán, J.; Herranz, R.; Gullón Muñoz-Repiso, T.; Lovelace, R.:

spanishoddata: a package for accessing and working with Spanish Open Mobility Big Data

Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science, 1–13. (2026)    

Kotov, E.; Bartumeus, F.; Palmer, J.:

Effects of human mobility on the spread of disease-transmitting mosquitoes in Spain: insights from mobile phone data

Abstracts of the International Cartographic Association 7:78, 1–2. (2024)