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Understanding how urban systems and traffic dynamics co-evolve is crucial for advancing sustainable and resilient cities. However, their bidirectional causal relationships remain underexplored due to challenges of simultaneously inferring…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-10-30 Yatao Zhang , Ye Hong , Song Gao , Martin Raubal

Urban sensing is essential for the development of smart cities, enabling monitoring, computing, and decision-making for urban management.Thanks to the advent of vehicle technologies, modern vehicles are transforming from solely mobility…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Hui Zhong , Qing-Long Lu , Qiming Zhang , Hongliang Lu , Xinhu Zheng

Urban planning is increasingly data driven, yet the challenge of designing with data at a city scale and remaining sensitive to the impact at a human scale is as important today as it was for Jane Jacobs. We address this challenge with…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-09-01 Fabio Miranda , Maryam Hosseini , Marcos Lage , Harish Doraiswamy , Graham Dove , Claudio T. Silva

Space-time visualizations of macroscopic or microscopic traffic variables is a qualitative tool used by traffic engineers to understand and analyze different aspects of road traffic dynamics. We present a deep learning method to learn the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Bilal Thonnam Thodi , Zaid Saeed Khan , Saif Eddin Jabari , Monica Menendez

Urban segmentation and lane detection are two important tasks for traffic scene perception. Accuracy and fast inference speed of visual perception are crucial for autonomous driving safety. Fine and complex geometric objects are the most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Yaxin Feng , Yuan Lan , Luchan Zhang , Guoqing Liu , Yang Xiang

Traffic cameras are essential in urban areas, playing a crucial role in intelligent transportation systems. Multiple cameras at intersections enhance law enforcement capabilities, traffic management, and pedestrian safety. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Md Adnan Arefeen , Biplob Debnath , Srimat Chakradhar

Data volume grows explosively with the proliferation of powerful smartphones and innovative mobile applications. The ability to accurately and extensively monitor and analyze these data is necessary. Much concern in mobile data analysis is…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-09-01 Mohammadhossein Ghahramani , MengChu Zhou , Gang Wang

The growing homelessness crisis in the U.S. presents complex social, economic, and public health challenges, straining shelters, healthcare, and social services while limiting effective interventions. Traditional assessment methods struggle…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Julia Gersey , Rose Allegrette , Joshua Lian , Zawad Munshi , Aarti Phatke

Urban traffic regulation policies are increasingly used to address congestion, emissions, and accessibility in cities, yet their impacts are difficult to assess due to the socio-technical complexity of urban mobility systems. Recent…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Arianna Burzacchi , Marco Pistore

We propose two novel interaction techniques for visualization-assisted exploration of urban data: Layer Toggling and Visibility-Preserving Lenses. Layer Toggling mitigates visual overload by organizing information into separate layers while…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Karelia Salinas , Luis Gustavo Nonato , Jean-Daniel Fekete , Fernanda Bartolo dos Santos Saran

Urbanization and its problems require an in-depth and comprehensive understanding of urban dynamics, especially the complex and diversified lifestyles in modern cities. Digitally acquired data can accurately capture complex human activity,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-09-27 Yanni Yang , Alex Pentland , Esteban Moro

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

Understanding the dynamics of traffic clusters is crucial for enhancing urban transportation systems, particularly in managing congestion and free-flow states. This study applies computational percolation theory to analyze the formation and…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-07-30 Yongsung Kwon , Minjin Lee , Mi Jin Lee , Seung-Woo Son

Extracting actionable insights from long-duration urban videos is often labor-intensive: analysts must manually sift through raw footage to pinpoint target events or uncover broader behavioral trends. In this work, we present…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Joel Perca , Luis Sante , Juanpablo Heredia , Joao Rulff , Claudio Silva , Jorge Poco

The increasing urbanization process we have been witnessing in the last decades is accompanied by a significant increase in traffic congestion in cities around the world. The effect of the congestion is represented in the enormous time…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-11-01 Nimrod Serok , Shlomo Havlin , Efrat Blumenfeld Lieberthal

Urban growth sometimes leads to rigid infrastructure that struggles to adapt to changing demand. This paper introduces a novel approach, aiming to enable cities to evolve and respond more effectively to such dynamic demand. It identifies…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Xi Chen , Wei Hu , Jingru Yu , Ding Wang , Shengyue Yao , Yilun Lin , Fei-Yue Wang

The development of science has been transforming man's view towards nature for centuries. Observing structures and patterns in an effective approach to discover regularities from data is a key step toward theory-building. With increasingly…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-06-09 Guang-Xing Li

This study identifies a gap in data-driven approaches to robot-centric pedestrian interactions and proposes a corresponding pipeline. The pipeline utilizes unsupervised learning techniques to identify patterns in interaction data of urban…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Sebastian Zug , Georg Jäger , Norman Seyffer , Martin Plank , Gero Licht , Felix Wilhelm Siebert

Most existing literature focuses on the exterior temporal rhythm of human movement to infer the functional regions in a city, but they neglects the underlying interdependence between the functional regions and human activities which…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-01-22 Ye Zhi , Yu Liu , Shaowen Wang , Min Deng , Jing Gao , Haifeng Li

Given that observational and numerical climate data are being produced at ever more prodigious rates, increasingly sophisticated and automated analysis techniques have become essential. Deep learning is quickly becoming a standard approach…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-09-12 A. Rupe , J. P. Crutchfield , K. Kashinath , Prabhat