Abstract Properly extracting patterns of individual mobility with high resolution data sources such as the one extracted from smartphone applications offers important opportunities. Potential opportunities not offered by call detailed records (CDRs), which offer resolutions triangulated antennas, are route choices, travel modes detection and close encounters. Nowadays, there is a standard large...

The urgency for service differentiation, customisation and personalisation in the market of 3G mobile services and applications has boosted the activities of many standards groups and Telecommunication companies and institutions to introduce advanced frameworks and architectures for the support of flexible service provision. Important feature in such architectures is the location information ma...