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Walking and cycling, commonly referred to as active travel, have become integral components of modern transport planning. Recently, there has been growing recognition of the substantial role that active travel can play in making cities more…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-05-06 Ivann Schlosser , Valentina Marín Maureira , Richard Milton , Elsa Arcaute , Michael Batty

Automatic detection of public transport (PT) usage has important applications for intelligent transport systems. It is crucial for understanding the commuting habits of passengers at large and over longer periods of time. It also enables…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2017-06-14 Mikko Rinne , Mehrdad Bagheri , Tuukka Tolvanen

High-resolution location ("heartbeat") data of transit fleet vehicles is a relatively new data source for many transit agencies. On its surface, the heartbeat data can provide a wealth of information about all operational details of a…

Applications · Statistics 2023-08-17 Yuzhu Huang , Awad Abdelhalim , Anson Stewart , Jinhua Zhao , Haris Koutsopoulos

Getting insights on human mobility patterns and being able to reproduce them accurately is of the utmost importance in a wide range of applications from public health, to transport and urban planning. Still the relationship between the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-10-15 Maxime Lenormand , Juan Murillo Arias , Maxi San Miguel , José J. Ramasco

Up-to-date information on different modes of travel to monitor transport traffic and evaluate rapid urban transport planning interventions is often lacking. Transport systems typically rely on traditional data sources providing outdated…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-11-28 Eduardo Graells-Garrido , Daniela Opitz , Francisco Rowe , Jacqueline Arriagada

Despite a large body of literature on trip inference using call detail record (CDR) data, a fundamental understanding of their limitations is lacking. In particular, because of the sparse nature of CDR data, users may travel to a location…

Applications · Statistics 2023-10-09 Zhan Zhao , Haris N. Koutsopoulos , Jinhua Zhao

Understanding urban mobility patterns and analyzing how people move around cities helps improve the overall quality of life and supports the development of more livable, efficient, and sustainable urban areas. A challenging aspect of this…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-09-05 Prabin Bhandari , Antonios Anastasopoulos , Dieter Pfoser

The lack of GPS data limits the ability to reconstruct the actual routes taken by cyclists in urban areas. This article introduces an inference method based solely on trip durations and origin-destination pairs from bike-sharing system…

Applications · Statistics 2025-12-18 Bertrand Jouve , Paul Rochet , Mohamadou Salifou

The pervasive use of new mobile devices has allowed a better characterization in space and time of human concentrations and mobility in general. Besides its theoretical interest, describing mobility is of great importance for a number of…

Predicting future bus trip chains for an existing user is of great significance for operators of public transit systems. Existing methods always treat this task as a time-series prediction problem, but the 1-dimensional time series…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Xiannan Huang , Yixin Chen , Quan Yuan , Chao Yang

Excess or wasteful commuting is measured as the proportion of actual commute that is over minimum (optimal) commute when assuming that people could freely swap their homes and jobs in a city. Studies usually rely on survey data to define…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-06-03 Yujie Hu , Fahui Wang

Statistics on migration flows are often derived from census data, which suffer from intrinsic limitations, including costs and infrequent sampling. When censuses are used, there is typically a time gap - up to a few years - between the data…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Massimiliano Luca , Gianni Barlacchi , Nuria Oliver , Bruno Lepri

Previous methods that predict system-wide travel time, predominantly grounded in graph neural networks, remain limited to typical and recurring demand patterns. While they successfully predict future congestion following daily commute, they…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Łukasz Gorczyca , Kacper Drozd , Michał Bujak , Rafał Kucharski

Home-work commuting has always attracted significant research attention because of its impact on human mobility. One of the key assumptions in this domain of study is the universal uniformity of commute times. However, a true comparison of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-06-17 Kevin S. Kung , Kael Greco , Stanislav Sobolevsky , Carlo Ratti

Traditional measures of urban accessibility often rely on static models or survey data. However, location information from mobile networks now enables large-scale, dynamic analyses of how people navigate cities. This study uses eXtended…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Cesar Marin-Flores , Leo Ferres , Henrikki Tenkanen

Human mobility patterns deeply affect the dynamics of many social systems. In this paper, we empirically analyze the real-world human movements based GPS records, and observe rich scaling properties in the temporal-spatial patterns as well…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-06-15 Xiang-Wen Wang , Xiao-Pu Han , Bing-Hong Wang

With people constantly migrating to different urban areas, our mobility needs for work, services and leisure are transforming rapidly. The changing urban demographics pose several challenges for the efficient management of transit services.…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-06-08 Trivik Verma , Mikhail Sirenko , Itto Kornecki , Scott Cunningham , Nuno AM Araújo

Recent mobility scaling research, using new data sources, often relies on aggregated data alone. Hence, these studies face difficulties characterizing the influence of factors such as transportation mode on mobility patterns. This paper…

Physics and Society · Physics 2014-01-07 Galen Wilkerson , Ramin Khalili , Stefan Schmid

Human mobility has a significant impact on several layers of society, from infrastructural planning and economics to the spread of diseases and crime. Representing the system as a complex network, in which nodes are assigned to regions…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-08-14 Gabriel Spadon , Andre C. P. L. F. de Carvalho , Jose F. Rodrigues-Jr , Luiz G. A. Alves

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