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Realistic modeling of vehicular mobility has been particularly challenging due to a lack of large libraries of measurements in the research community. In this paper we introduce a novel method for large-scale monitoring, analysis, and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2011-05-26 Gautam S. Thakur , Pan Hui , Hamed Ketabdar , Ahmed Helmy

Driven by access to large volumes of movement data, the study of human mobility has grown rapidly over the past decades. The field has shown that human mobility is scale-free, proposed models to generate scale-free moving distance…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-07-17 Louis Boucherie , Benjamin F. Maier , Sune Lehmann

Territorial subdivisions and geographic borders are essential for understanding phenomena in sociology, political science, history, and economics. They influence the interregional flow of information and cross-border trade and affect the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-03-19 Daniel Grady , Rafael Brune , Christian Thiemann , Fabian Theis , Dirk Brockmann

Trajectory data combines the complexities of time series, spatial data, and (sometimes irrational) movement behavior. As data availability and computing power have increased, so has the popularity of deep learning from trajectory data. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Anita Graser , Anahid Jalali , Jasmin Lampert , Axel Weißenfeld , Krzysztof Janowicz

In the post year 2000 era the technologies that facilitate human communication have rapidly multiplied. While the adoption of these technologies has hugely impacted the behaviour and sociality of people, specifically in urban but also in…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-04-16 Kunal Bhattacharya , Kimmo Kaski

Understanding network flows such as commuter traffic in large transportation networks is an ongoing challenge due to the complex nature of the transportation infrastructure and of human mobility. Here we show a first-principles based method…

Physics and Society · Physics 2014-10-21 Yihui Ren , Mária Ercsey-Ravasz , Pu Wang , Marta C. González , Zoltán Toroczkai

We investigate a model for spatial epidemics explicitly taking into account bi-directional movements between base and destination locations on individual mobility networks. We provide a systematic analysis of generic dynamical features of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2012-03-07 Vitaly Belik , Theo Geisel , Dirk Brockmann

The current state-of-the-art in user mobility research has extensively relied on open-source mobility traces captured from pedestrian and vehicular activity through a variety of communication technologies as users engage in a wide-range of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-15 Sinjoni Mukhopadhyay King , Faisal Nawab , Katia Obraczka

Since the past few decades, human trajectory forecasting has been a field of active research owing to its numerous real-world applications: evacuation situation analysis, deployment of intelligent transport systems, traffic operations, to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-12 Parth Kothari , Sven Kreiss , Alexandre Alahi

Mobility analysis is a crucial element in the research area of transportation systems. Forecasting traffic information offers a viable solution to address the conflict between increasing transportation demands and the limitations of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-24 Zijian Zhang , Yujie Sun , Zepu Wang , Yuqi Nie , Xiaobo Ma , Ruolin Li , Peng Sun , Xuegang Ban

Understanding human mobility is essential for the development of smart cities and social behavior research. Human mobility models may be used in numerous applications, including pandemic control, urban planning, and traffic management. The…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-09-09 Yisheng Alison Zheng , Amani Abusafia , Abdallah Lakhdari , Shing Tai Tony Lui , Athman Bouguettaya

Location and mobility patterns of individuals are important to environmental planning, societal resilience, public health, and a host of commercial applications. Mining telecommunication traffic and transactions data for such purposes is…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2014-12-09 Pedro Sanches , Eric-Oluf Svee , Markus Bylund , Benjamin Hirsch , Magnus Boman

The research objectives are exploring characteristics of human mobility patterns, subsequently modelling them mathematically depending on inter-event time and traveled distances parameters using CDRs (Call Detailed Records). The…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-07-16 Suhad Faisal Behadili , Cyrille Bertelle , Loay E. George

Motion prediction for automated vehicles in complex environments is a difficult task that is to be mastered when automated vehicles are to be used in arbitrary situations. Many factors influence the future motion of traffic participants…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Daniel Grimm , Philip Schörner , Moritz Dreßler , J. -Marius Zöllner

Monitoring urban structure and development requires high-quality data at high spatiotemporal resolution. While traditional censuses have provided foundational insights into demographic and socioeconomic aspects of urban life, their pace may…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-03-20 Gezhi Xiu , Jianying Wang , Thilo Gross , Mei-Po Kwan , Xia Peng , Yu Liu

Human mobility is a key factor in spatial disease dynamics and related phenomena. In computational models host mobility is typically modelled by diffusion in space or on metapolulation networks. Alternatively, an effective force of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2012-03-07 Vitaly Belik , Theo Geisel , Dirk Brockmann

Understanding the complex behavior of pedestrians walking in crowds is a challenge for both science and technology. In particular, obtaining reliable models for crowd dynamics, capable of exhibiting qualitatively and quantitatively the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-04-12 Alessandro Corbetta , Luca Bruno , Adrian Muntean , Federico Toschi

In this paper, we extend some ideas of statistical physics to describe the properties of human mobility. From a physical point of view, we consider the statistical empirical laws of private cars mobility, taking advantage of a GPS database…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-01-12 Riccardo Gallotti , Armando Bazzani , Sandro Rambaldi

A unifying graph theoretic framework for the modelling of metro transportation networks is proposed. This is achieved by first introducing a basic graph framework for the modelling of the London underground system from a diffusion law point…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-12 Bruno Scalzo Dees , Yao Lei Xu , Anthony G. Constantinides , Danilo P. Mandic

Recent advances in sensor and mobile devices have enabled an unprecedented increase in the availability and collection of urban trajectory data, thus increasing the demand for more efficient ways to manage and analyze the data being…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Sheng Wang , Zhifeng Bao , J. Shane Culpepper , Gao Cong