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Cycling is a cornerstone of a sustainable mobility transition in cities. Cycling research depends on the data available, but it has been difficult to produce or access these data in comparable ways. Sports tracking platforms like Strava…

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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…

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In transport modeling and prediction, trip purposes play an important role since mobility choices (e.g. modes, routes, departure times) are made in order to carry out specific activities. Activity based models, which have been gaining…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2015-02-16 Youngsung Kim , Francisco C. Pereira , Fang Zhao , Ajinkya Ghorpade , P. Christopher Zegras , Moshe Ben-Akiva

A key aspect of a sustainable urban transportation system is the effectiveness of transportation policies. To be effective, a policy has to consider a broad range of elements, such as pollution emission, traffic flow, and human mobility.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Antonio L. Alfeo , Mario G. C. A. Cimino , Sara Egidi , Bruno Lepri , Gigliola Vaglini

The digital revolution has led to the digitization of human behavior, creating unprecedented opportunities to understand observable actions on an unmatched scale. Emerging phenomena such as crowdfunding and crowdsourcing have further…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Hannah H. Chang , Anirban Mukherjee

Micro-mobility services (e.g., e-bikes, e-scooters) are increasingly popular among urban communities, being a flexible transport option that brings both opportunities and challenges. As a growing mode of transportation, insights gained from…

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Street view data is increasingly being used in computer vision applications in recent years. Machine learning datasets are collected for these applications using simple sampling techniques. These datasets are assumed to be a systematic…

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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

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

Nowadays, social networks are becoming a popular way of analyzing tourist behavior, thanks to the digital traces left by travelers during their stays on these networks. The massive amount of data generated; by the propensity of tourists to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Theo Demessance , Chongke Bi , Sonia Djebali , Guillaume Guerard

An important aspect of urban planning is understanding crowd levels at various locations, which typically require the use of physical sensors. Such sensors are potentially costly and time consuming to implement on a large scale. To address…

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The proliferation of smartphones has accelerated mobility studies by largely increasing the type and volume of mobility data available. One such source of mobility data is from GPS technology, which is becoming increasingly common and helps…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-02 Zann Koh , Yuren Zhou , Billy Pik Lik Lau , Ran Liu , Keng Hua Chong , Chau Yuen

Positioning data offer a remarkable source of information to analyze crowds urban dynamics. However, discovering urban activity patterns from the emergent behavior of crowds involves complex system modeling. An alternative approach is to…

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POI recommendation is a key task in tourism information systems. However, in contrast to conventional point of interest (POI) recommender systems, the available data is extremely sparse; most tourist visit a few sightseeing spots once and…

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The description of complex human mobility patterns is at the core of many important applications ranging from urbanism and transportation to epidemics containment. Data about collective human movements, once scarce, has become widely…

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To choose restaurants and coffee shops, people are increasingly relying on social-networking sites. In a popular site such as Foursquare or Yelp, a place comes with descriptions and reviews, and with profile pictures of people who frequent…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2015-06-12 Miriam Redi , Daniele Quercia , Lindsay T. Graham , Samuel D. Gosling

The statistical properties of human mobility have been studied in the framework of complex systems physics. Taking advantage from the new datasets made available by the information and communication technologies, the distributions of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-10-03 Chiara Mizzi , Alessandro Fabbri , Giulio Colombini , Flavio Bertini , Armando Bazzani

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

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

Analyzing flight trajectory data sets poses challenges due to the intricate interconnections among various factors and the high dimensionality of the data. Topological Data Analysis (TDA) is a way of analyzing big data sets focusing on the…

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