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Since the industrial revolution, accelerated urban growth has overflown administrative divisions, merged cities into large built extensions, and blurred the boundaries between urban and rural land-uses. These traits, present in most of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-09-21 Francisco J. Humeres , Horacio Samaniego

The availability of big data on human activity is currently changing the way we look at our surroundings. With the high penetration of mobile phones, nearly everyone is already carrying a high-precision sensor providing an opportunity to…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-09-02 Dániel Kondor , Pierrick Thebault , Sebastian Grauwin , István Gódor , Simon Moritz , Stanislav Sobolevsky , Carlo Ratti

The study of human mobility patterns is of both theoretical and practical values in many aspects. For long-distance travels, a few research endeavors have shown that the displacements of human travels follow the power-law distribution.…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-12-28 Ling Zhang , Shuangling Luo , Haoxiang Xia

The rapid development of urbanization during the past decades has significantly improved people's lives but also introduced new challenges on effective functional urban planning and transportation management. The functional regions defined…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-08-02 Zhuochen Jin , Nan Cao , Yang Shi , Hanghang Tong , Yingcai Wu

Transportation networks serve as windows into the complex world of urban systems. By properly characterizing a road network, we can therefore better understand its encompassing urban system. This study offers a geometrical approach towards…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-07-15 Farideddin Peiravian , Sybil Derrible

In the context of rapid urbanization, understanding the patterns of urban residents' activities and mobility is crucial for optimizing transportation systems and enhancing urban management efficiency. This study addresses the limitations of…

Applications · Statistics 2024-06-25 Nuoxian Huang , Yulin Wu

We aim to study the temporal patterns of activity in points of interest of cities around the world. In order to do so, we use the data provided by the online location-based social network Foursquare, where users make check-ins that indicate…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-03-29 Francisco Betancourt , Alejandro P. Riascos , José L. Mateos

Urban population grows constantly. By 2050 two thirds of the world population will reside in urban areas. This growth is faster and more complex than the ability of cities to measure and plan for their sustainability. To understand what…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-02-27 Eduardo Graells-Garrido , Irene Meta , Feliu Serra-Burriel , Patricio Reyes , Fernando M. Cucchietti

People's daily activities in the urban environment are complex and vary by individuals. Existing studies using mobile phone data revealed distinct and recurrent transitional activity patterns, known as mobility motifs, in people's daily…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Junjun Yin , Guangqing Chi

Understanding urban human mobility patterns at various spatial levels is essential for social science. This study presents a machine learning framework to downscale origin-destination (OD) taxi trips flows in New York City from a larger…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Yuqin Jiang , Andrey A. Popov , Tianle Duan , Qingchun Li

Understanding individual mobility behavior is critical for modeling urban transportation. It provides deeper insights on the generative mechanisms of human movements. Emerging data sources such as mobile phone call detail records, social…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-10-21 Jiechao Zhang , Samiul Hasan , Xuedong Yan , Xiaobing Liu

Understanding how people move in the urban area is important for solving urbanization issues, such as traffic management, urban planning, epidemic control, and communication network improvement. Leveraging recent availability of large…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-05-27 Yuren Zhou , Billy Pik Lik Lau , Chau Yuen , Bige Tunçer , Erik Wilhelm

Urban spatial-temporal flows prediction is of great importance to traffic management, land use, public safety, etc. Urban flows are affected by several complex and dynamic factors, such as patterns of human activities, weather, events and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-28 Peng Xie , Tianrui Li , Jia Liu , Shengdong Du , Xin Yang , Junbo Zhang

Studies using massive, passively data collected from communication technologies have revealed many ubiquitous aspects of social networks, helping us understand and model social media, information diffusion, and organizational dynamics. More…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-02-04 Jameson L. Toole , Carlos Herrera-Yague , Christian M. Schneider , Marta C. Gonzalez

Human mobility patterns are complex and distinct from one person to another. Nevertheless, motivated by tremendous potential benefits of modeling such patterns in enabling new mobile services and technologies, researchers have attempted to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2013-07-09 Seyed Kaveh Fayazbakhsh

In this paper, we combine the most complete record of daily mobility, based on large-scale mobile phone data, with detailed Geographic Information System (GIS) data, uncovering previously hidden patterns in urban road usage. We find that…

Physics and Society · Physics 2012-12-24 Pu Wang , Timothy Hunter , Alexandre M. Bayen , Katja Schechtner , Marta C. González

Urban transportation plays a vital role in modern city life, affecting how efficiently people and goods move around. This study analyzes transportation patterns using two datasets: the NYC Taxi Trip dataset from New York City and the Pathao…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-05-08 Bidyarthi Paul , Fariha Tasnim Chowdhury , Dipta Biswas , Meherin Sultana

Human mobility patterns refer to the regularities and trends in the way people move, travel, or navigate through different geographical locations over time. Detecting human mobility patterns is essential for a variety of applications,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Yisheng Alison Zheng , Abdallah Lakhdari , Amani Abusafia , Shing Tai Tony Lui , Athman Bouguettaya

Human mobility, a pivotal aspect of urban dynamics, displays a profound and multifaceted relationship with urban sustainability. Despite considerable efforts analyzing mobility patterns over decades, the ranking dynamics of urban mobility…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-03-12 Hao Wang

Vehicle mobility optimization in urban areas is a long-standing problem in smart city and spatial data analysis. Given the complex urban scenario and unpredictable social events, our work focuses on developing a mobile sequential…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-18 Pengzhan Guo , Keli Xiao , Zeyang Ye , Wei Zhu