  Urbanization drives the epidemiology of infectious diseases to many threats
and new challenges. In this research, we study the interplay between human
mobility and dengue outbreaks in the complex urban environment of the
city-state of Singapore. We integrate both stylized and mobile phone
data-driven mobility patterns in an agent-based transmission model in which
humans and mosquitoes are represented as agents that go through the epidemic
states of dengue. We monitor with numerical simulations the system-level
response to the epidemic by comparing our results with the observed cases
reported during the 2013 and 2014 outbreaks. Our results show that human
mobility is a major factor in the spread of vector-borne diseases such as
dengue even on the short scale corresponding to intra-city distances. We
finally discuss the advantages and the limits of mobile phone data and
potential alternatives for assessing valuable mobility patterns for modeling
vector-borne diseases outbreaks in cities.
