Urban delineation through the lens of commute networks: Leveraging graph embeddings to distinguish socioeconomic groups in cities

Devashish Khulbe; Stanislav Sobolevsky

doi:10.1371/journal.pcsy.0000061

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Urban delineation through the lens of commute networks: Leveraging graph embeddings to distinguish socioeconomic groups in cities

Devashish Khulbe ,

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft

* E-mail: dk3596@nyu.edu

Affiliation Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6436-8969

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Stanislav Sobolevsky

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Center for Urban Science+Progress, New York University, Brooklyn, New York, United States of America, Center for Interacting Urban Networks, New York University Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Institute of Computer Science, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
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Urban delineation through the lens of commute networks: Leveraging graph embeddings to distinguish socioeconomic groups in cities

Devashish Khulbe,
Stanislav Sobolevsky

Published: August 11, 2025
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcsy.0000061

About the Authors

Devashish Khulbe

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft

* E-mail: dk3596@nyu.edu

Affiliation Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6436-8969

Stanislav Sobolevsky

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Center for Urban Science+Progress, New York University, Brooklyn, New York, United States of America, Center for Interacting Urban Networks, New York University Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Institute of Computer Science, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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