TY - JOUR T1 - {Understanding the patterns of car travel} JF - The European Physical Journal Special Topics Y1 - 2013 A1 - Luca Pappalardo A1 - S Rinzivillo A1 - Qu, Zehui A1 - Dino Pedreschi A1 - Fosca Giannotti AB - {Are the patterns of car travel different from those of general human mobility? Based on a unique dataset consisting of the GPS trajectories of 10 million travels accomplished by 150,000 cars in Italy, we investigate how known mobility models apply to car travels, and illustrate novel analytical findings. We also assess to what extent the sample in our dataset is representative of the overall car mobility, and discover how to build an extremely accurate model that, given our GPS data, estimates the real traffic values as measured by road sensors.} VL - 215 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1140/epjst%252fe2013-01715-5 ER -