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Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-04-22 Guillermo Baltra , Basileal Imana , Wuxuan Jiang , Aleksandra Korolova

This paper analyzes pedestrians' behavioral patterns in the pedestrianized shopping environment in the historical center of Barcelona, Spain. We employ a Bluetooth detection technique to capture a large-scale dataset of pedestrians'…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-03-14 Yuji Yoshimura , Alexander Amini , Stanislav Sobolevsky , Josep Blat , Carlo Ratti

With the rise of hailing services, people are increasingly relying on shared mobility (e.g., Uber, Lyft) drivers to pick up for transportation. However, such drivers and riders have difficulties finding each other in urban areas as GPS…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-01-05 Sirajum Munir , Hongkai Chen , Shiwei Fang , Mahathir Monjur , Shan Lin , Shahriar Nirjon

Illegal vehicle parking is a common urban problem faced by major cities in the world, as it incurs traffic jams, which lead to air pollution and traffic accidents. The government highly relies on active human efforts to detect illegal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-03 Tianfu He , Jie Bao , Yexin Li , Hui He , Yu Zheng

Dockless bike-sharing (DBS) users often encounter difficulties in finding available bikes at their preferred times and locations. This study examines the determinants of the users' mode shifts in the context of bike absence, using survey…

Econometrics · Economics 2025-03-19 Hongjun Cui , Zhixiao Ren , Xinwei Ma , Minqing Zhu

Ride-pooling systems, despite being an appealing urban mobility mode, still struggle to gain momentum. While we know the significance of critical mass in reaching system sustainability, less is known about the spatiotemporal patterns of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-12-15 Olha Shulika , Michal Bujak , Farnoud Ghasemi , Rafal Kucharski

In bicycle share networks, the balance between demand and supply is disrupted. As a result, shared resources are wasted and management costs for operators increase. Therefore, in this paper, we analyze the cycle relocation problem from the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-30 Qiwei Luo

Thick two-sided matching platforms, such as the room-rental market, face the challenge of showing relevant objects to users to reduce search costs. Many platforms use ranking algorithms to determine the order in which alternatives are shown…

General Economics · Economics 2023-08-29 Caterina Calsamiglia , Laura Doval , Alejandro Robinson-Cortés , Matthew Shum

Shared bicycles have emerged as a transformative force in urban transportation, effectively addressing the perennial 'last mile' challenge faced by commuters. The limitations of station-based bike-sharing systems, constrained by…

Applications · Statistics 2024-01-09 Xuxilu Zhang , Lingqi Gu , Nan Zhao

The information collected by mobile phone operators can be considered as the most detailed information on human mobility across a large part of the population. The study of the dynamics of human mobility using the collected geolocations of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-11-21 Nicolas Ponieman , Alejo Salles , Carlos Sarraute

The global electric car sales in 2020 continued to exceed the expectations climbing to over 3 millions and reaching a market share of over 4%. However, uncertainty of generation caused by higher penetration of renewable energies and the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Vinicius Monteiro de Lira , Fabiano Pallonetto , Lorenzo Gabrielli , Chiara Renso

Sidewalks play a pivotal role in urban mobility of everyday life. Ideally, sidewalks provide a safe walkway for pedestrians, link public transportation facilities, and equip people with routing and navigation services. However, there is a…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2022-10-06 Kazi Shahrukh Omar , Gustavo Moreira , Daniel Hodczak , Maryam Hosseini , Fabio Miranda

Understanding patterns of demand is fundamental for fleet management of bike sharing systems. In this paper we analyze data from the Divvy system of the city of Chicago. We show that the demand of bicycles can be modeled as a multivariate…

Applications · Statistics 2018-07-10 Daniel Gervini , Manoj Khanal

Public transit systems are a critical component of major metropolitan areas. However, in the face of increasing demand, most of these systems are operating close to capacity. Under normal operating conditions, station crowding and boarding…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2016-10-03 Peyman Noursalehi , Haris N. Koutsopoulos

Bike-sharing systems are emerging in various cities as a new ecofriendly transportation system. In these systems, spatiotemporally varying user demands lead to imbalanced inventory at bicycle stations, resulting in additional relocation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-01 Tatsuya Mitomi , Fumiyasu Makinoshima , Fumiya Makihara , Eigo Segawa

On-Demand Ride-Pooling services have the potential to increase traffic efficiency compared to private vehicle trips by decreasing parking space needed and increasing vehicle occupancy due to higher vehicle utilization and shared trips,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-11 Roman Engelhardt , Hani S. Mahmassani , Klaus Bogenberger

Public transport has become an essential part of urban existence with increased population densities and environmental awareness. Large quantities of data are currently generated, allowing for more robust methods to understand travel…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-10 Nadav Shalit , Michael Fire , Eran Ben-Elia

Electric vehicles (EVs) have been gaining popularity due to their environmental friendliness and efficiency. EV charging station networks are scalable solutions for supporting increasing numbers of EVs within modern electric grid…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-04-04 Anshul Ramachandran , Ashwin Balakrishna , Peter Kundzicz , Anirudh Neti

Accurate spatio-temporal information about the current situation is crucial for smart city applications such as modern routing algorithms. Often, this information describes the state of stationary resources, e.g. the availability of parking…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-04-19 Lukas Rottkamp , Matthias Schubert

The fast demographic growth, together with the concentration of the population in cities and the increasing amount of daily waste, are factors that push to the limit the ability of waste assimilation by Nature. Therefore, we need…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-04-23 Javier Ferrer , Enrique Alba