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Data produced by cell phones are considered one of the most powerful sources of information as cell phone special tracks reveal population mobility patterns

In 2014, a group of experts from Thomson Reuters and Mathrioshka partnered with MegaFon, a mobile operator company, to visualise anonymised data for subscriber commute and transportation routes in Moscow and its suburbs for the period of two months: August and September

The visualised transportation routes of three million MegaFon subscribers in Moscow helped analyse mobility patterns, gain useful insights about dynamics of city population during the day, and identify locations with the highest subscriber density. The importance of these data and visualisations for public authorities, retailers, banks, providers of taxi services, and other businesses is absolutely impossible to overestimate.

The project was presented at the Moscow Urban Forum, the flagship event for the city planning and urban expert community of the region, and it was highly commended by the Moscow City Government.

State agencies of Singapore, Istanbul, Lisbon, Amsterdam, Rome, and other large cities collaborate with local providers of telecommunication services to develop dynamic real-time mobility maps used in traffic control systems for the analysis of bottlenecks in transportation networks. Cell phone data appear to be more reliable and cost effective than video streaming content coming from traffic control cameras.