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Traditional crime prediction models based on census data are limited, as they fail to capture the complexity and dynamics of human activity. With the rise of ubiquitous computing, there is the opportunity to improve such models with data…

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Predicting human mobility flows at different spatial scales is challenged by the heterogeneity of individual trajectories and the multi-scale nature of transportation networks. As vast amounts of digital traces of human behaviour become…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-02-08 M. G. Beiró , A. Panisson , M. Tizzoni , C. Cattuto

Fundamental laws of human mobility have been extensively studied, yet we are still lacking a comprehensive understanding of the mobility patterns of sharing conveyances. Since travellers would highly probably no longer possess their own…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-02-16 Ruiqi Li , Ankang Luo , Fan Shang , Linyuan Lv , Jingfang Fan , Gang Lu , Liming Pan , Lixin Tian , H. Eugene Stanley

For past several decades, research efforts in population modelling has proven its efficacy in understanding the basic information about residential and commercial areas, as well as for the purposes of planning, development and improvement…

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Human Mobility has attracted attentions from different fields of studies such as epidemic modeling, traffic engineering, traffic prediction and urban planning. In this survey we review major characteristics of human mobility studies…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-07-04 Fereshteh Asgari , Vincent Gauthier , Monique Becker

Inferring sociodemographic attributes from mobility data could help transportation planners better leverage passively collected datasets, but this task remains difficult due to weak and inconsistent relationships between mobility patterns…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Ekin Uğurel , Cynthia Chen , Brian H. Y. Lee , Filipe Rodrigues

Human mobility generation in disaster scenarios plays a vital role in resource allocation, emergency response, and rescue coordination. During disasters such as wildfires and hurricanes, human mobility patterns often deviate from their…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Qingyue Long , Huandong Wang , Qi Ryan Wang , Yong Li

The widespread use of positioning devices (e.g., GPS) has given rise to a vast body of human movement data, often in the form of trajectories. Understanding human mobility patterns could benefit many location-based applications. In this…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-03-18 Meng Chen , Xiaohui Yu , Yang Liu

We test a recently proposed model of commuting networks on 80 case studies from different regions of the world (Europe and United-States) and with geographic units of different sizes (municipality, county, region). The model takes as input…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2018-12-27 Maxime Lenormand , Sylvie Huet , Floriana Gargiulo , Guillaume Deffuant

Smartphones and other mobile devices are today pervasive across the globe. As an interesting side effect of the surge in mobile communications, mobile network operators can now easily collect a wealth of high-resolution data on the habits…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-10-25 Ghazaleh Khodabandelou , Vincent Gauthier , Mounim A. El-Yacoubi , Marco Fiore

The recent availability of digital traces from Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) has facilitated the study of both individual- and population-level movement with unprecedented spatiotemporal resolution, enabling us to better…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-10-10 Surendra Hazarie , Hugo Barbosa , Adam Frank , Ronaldo Menezes , Gourab Ghoshal

Despite their importance for urban planning, traffic forecasting, and the spread of biological and mobile viruses, our understanding of the basic laws governing human motion remains limited thanks to the lack of tools to monitor the time…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-11-13 M. C. Gonzalez , C. A. Hidalgo , A. -L. Barabasi

As a significant factor in urban planning, traffic forecasting and prediction of epidemics, modeling patterns of human mobility draws intensive attention from researchers for decades. Power-law distribution and its variations are observed…

Physics and Society · Physics 2014-10-28 Xiao Liang , Xudong Zheng , Weifeng Lv , Tongyu Zhu , Ke Xu

The study of human mobility is crucial due to its impact on several aspects of our society, such as disease spreading, urban planning, well-being, pollution, and more. The proliferation of digital mobility data, such as phone records, GPS…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-02 Massimiliano Luca , Gianni Barlacchi , Bruno Lepri , Luca Pappalardo

Synthetic human mobility generation is gaining traction as an ethical and practical approach to supporting the data needs of intelligent urban systems. Existing methods perform well primarily in data-rich cities, while their effectiveness…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Bo Liu , Tong Li , Zhu Xiao , Ruihui Li , Geyong Min , Zhuo Tang , Kenli Li

Transportation systems can be conceptualized as an instrument of spreading people and resources over the territory, playing an important role in developing sustainable cities. The current rationale of transport provision is based on…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-08-05 J. Siqueira-Gay , M. A. Giannotti , M. Sester

Challenges due to the rapid urbanization of the world -- especially in emerging countries -- range from an increasing dependence on energy, to air pollution, socio-spatial inequalities, environmental and sustainability issues. Modelling the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-05-07 Marc Barthelemy

Contextual features are important data sources for building citywide crowd mobility prediction models. However, the difficulty of applying context lies in the unknown generalizability of contextual features (e.g., weather, holiday, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Liyue Chen , Xiaoxiang Wang , Leye Wang

Accurate modeling of human mobility is critical for tackling urban planning and public health challenges. In undeveloped regions, the absence of comprehensive travel surveys necessitates reconstructing mobility networks from publicly…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Jinming Yang , Shaoyu Huang , Zongyuan Huang , Yaohui Jin , Xiaokang Yang , Marta C. Gonzalez , Yanyan Xu

Generating accurate and efficient predictions for the motion of the humans present in the scene is key to the development of effective motion planning algorithms for robots moving in promiscuous areas, where wrong planning decisions could…