Evaluation of Mobile Phone Signals in Urban Environment During a Large Social Event

The information about people's mobility patterns, during large social events, in a city, could play an important role in understanding the behavior of urban environments. This study is based on the characterization of records of mobile devices performed around the time and place of a large social event, in Hungary. Human mobility has been analyzed in terms of the number of mobile phone activities including calls, texting and data transfer. We use heat maps to visualize the temporo-spatial dynamics of the movement patterns within the crowd. The results obtained can be helpful in improving the understanding of human mobility related to large-scale events.