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The analysis of the transportation usage rate provides opportunities for evaluating the efficacy of the transportation service offered by proposing an indicator that integrates actual demand and capacity. This study aims to develop a…

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

Trajectory data mining is crucial for smart city management. However, collecting large-scale trajectory datasets is challenging due to factors such as commercial conflicts and privacy regulations. Therefore, we urgently need trajectory…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Jingyuan Wang , Yujing Lin , Yudong Li

In everyday life, the process of commuting to work from home happens every now and then. And the research of commute characteristics is useful for urban function planning. For humans, the commute of an individual seems revealing no regular…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2015-10-28 Hongyan Cui , Yuxiao Wu , Stanislav Sobolevskv , Shuai Xu , Carlo Ratti

In spring 2022, the German federal government agreed on a set of measures that aim at reducing households' financial burden resulting from a recent price increase, especially in energy and mobility. These measures include among others, a…

This study develops a cybernetically inspired mixed-methods framework that bridges the gap between policy formation and implementation through feedback-driven analysis of mobility transitions. Using a major campus consolidation in…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-11-11 Oluwaleke Yusuf , Morten Breivik , Adil Rasheed

We perform a systematic analysis on the large-scale taxi trip data to uncover urban mobility and city dynamics in multimodal urban transportation environments. As a case study, we use the taxi origin-destination trip data and some…

Computation · Statistics 2018-12-27 Xiao-Feng Xie , Zunjing Jenipher Wang

As cities expand, human mobility has become a central focus of urban planning and policy making to make cities more inclusive and sustainable. Initiatives such as the "15-minutes city" have been put in place to shift the attention from…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-06-09 Eduardo Graells-Garrido , Feliu Serra-Burriel , Francisco Rowe , Fernando M. Cucchietti , Patricio Reyes

Human mobility is known to be distributed across several orders of magnitude of physical distances , which makes it generally difficult to endogenously find or define typical and meaningful scales. Relevant analyses, from movements to…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-04-05 Telmo Menezes , Camille Roth

Human mobility analysis is an important issue in social sciences, and mobility data are among the most sought-after sources of information in ur- Data ban studies, geography, transportation and territory management. In network sciences…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2013-01-29 Thomas Couronne , Zbigniew Smoreda , Ana-Maria Olteanu

A multi-modal transport system is acknowledged to have robust failure tolerance and can effectively relieve urban congestion issues. However, estimating the impact of disruptions across multi-transport modes is a challenging problem due to…

Cycling is an outdoor activity with massive health benefits, and an effective solution towards sustainable urban transport. Despite these benefits and the recent rising popularity of cycling, most countries still have a negligible uptake.…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-05-03 Alice Battiston , Ludovico Napoli , Paolo Bajardi , André Panisson , Alan Perotti , Michael Szell , Rossano Schifanella

Trajectory clustering is an important operation of knowledge discovery from mobility data. Especially nowadays, the need for performing advanced analytic operations over massively produced data, such as mobility traces, in efficient and…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Panagiotis Tampakis , Nikos Pelekis , Christos Doulkeridis , Yannis Theodoridis

In this paper we deal with the analysis of the solutions of traffic flow models at multiple scales, both in the case of a single road and of road networks. We are especially interested in measuring the distance between traffic states (as…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-06-04 Emiliano Cristiani , Maria Cristina Saladino

Understanding the mobility of humans and their devices is a fundamental problem in mobile computing. While there has been much work on empirical analysis of human mobility using mobile device data, prior work has largely assumed devices to…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Amee Trivedi , Jeremy Gummeson , Prashant Shenoy

Transportation companies and organizations routinely collect huge volumes of passenger transportation data. By aggregating these data (e.g., counting the number of passengers going from a place to another in every 30 minute interval), it…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-10-16 Chrysanthi Kosyfaki , Nikos Mamoulis , Reynold Cheng , Ben Kao

Shared mobility systems (e.g., shared cars and ride-hailing services) generate persistent spatial imbalances as vehicles concentrate at popular destinations, leaving trip origins depleted of supply. Operators incur substantial costs in…

Applied Physics · Physics 2026-04-07 Wenbo Fan , Zhouyun Chen , Weihua Gu

Demand for sustainable mobility is particularly high in urban areas. Hence, there is a growing need to predict when people will decide to use different travel modes with an emphasis on environmentally friendly travel modes. As travel mode…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Maciej Grzenda , Marcin Luckner , Jakub Zawieska , Przemysław Wrona

Crime has been previously explained by social characteristics of the residential population and, as stipulated by crime pattern theory, might also be linked to human movements of non-residential visitors. Yet a full empirical validation of…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-04-20 Cristina Kadar , Stefan Feuerriegel , Anastasios Noulas , Cecilia Mascolo

Mobility data at EU scale can help understand the dynamics of the pandemic and possibly limit the impact of future waves. Still, since a reliable and consistent method to measure the evolution of contagion at international level is missing,…