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Individual mobility prediction plays a key role in urban transport, enabling personalized service recommendations and effective travel management. It is widely modeled by data-driven methods such as machine learning, deep learning, as well…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Zhenlin Qin , Leizhen Wang , Yancheng Ling , Francisco Camara Pereira , Zhenliang Ma

Climate change mitigation in urban mobility requires policies reconfiguring urban form to increase accessibility and facilitate low-carbon modes of transport. However, current policy research has insufficiently assessed urban form effects…

Understanding and modeling human mobility is central to challenges in transport planning, sustainable urban design, and public health. Despite decades of effort, simulating individual mobility remains challenging because of its complex,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-02-10 Ye Hong , Yatao Zhang , Konrad Schindler , Martin Raubal

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

Understanding human mobility is important for the development of intelligent mobile service robots as it can provide prior knowledge and predictions of human distribution for robot-assisted activities. In this paper, we propose a…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2016-06-29 Bo Tang , Chao Jiang , Haibo He , Yi Guo

Existing theories of migration either focus on micro- or macroscopic behavior of populations; that is, either the average behavior of entire population is modeled directly, or decisions of individuals are modeled directly. In this work, we…

Physics and Society · Physics 2013-05-10 Babak Fotouhi , Michael G. Rabbat

In this paper, we propose a machine learning-based approach to address the lack of ability for designers to optimize urban land use planning from the perspective of vehicle travel demand. Research shows that our computational model can help…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Zixun Huang , Hao Zheng

The use of cars in cities has many negative impacts on its population, including pollution, noise and the use of space. Yet, detecting factors that reduce automobile dependency is a serious challenge, particularly across different regions.…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-11-12 Rafael Prieto-Curiel , Juan P. Ospina

The intrinsic factor that drives the human movement remains unclear for decades. While our observations from intra-urban and inter-urban trips both demonstrate a universal law in human mobility. Be specific, the probability from one…

Physics and Society · Physics 2014-01-17 Xiao Liang , Jichang Zhao , Ke Xu

Travel behavior prediction is a core problem in transportation demand management and is traditionally addressed using numerical models calibrated on observed data. With recent advances in large language models (LLMs), new opportunities have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Baichuan Mo , Hanyong Xu , Ruoyun Ma , Jung-Hoon Cho , Dingyi Zhuang , Xiaotong Guo , Jinhua Zhao

Research into, and design and construction of mobile systems and algorithms requires access to large-scale mobility data. Unfortunately, the wireless and mobile research community lacks such data. For instance, the largest available human…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2009-09-21 Pan Hui , Richard Mortier , Tristan Henderson , Jon Crowcroft

This paper discusses two main themes. First, it investigates the formation of a spatiotemporal cognitive map (mental image) of a road network in travelers memory, which entails the travelers global conceptual understanding of congestion or…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-02-25 Navid Khademi , Ramin Saedi

Many machine learning (ML) approaches are widely used to generate bioclimatic models for prediction of geographic range of organism as a function of climate. Applications such as prediction of range shift in organism, range of invasive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-03-13 Maumita Bhattacharya

Inferring sociodemographic attributes from mobility data could help transportation planners better leverage passively collected datasets, but this task remains difficult due to weak and inconsistent relationships between mobility patterns…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Ekin Uğurel , Cynthia Chen , Brian H. Y. Lee , Filipe Rodrigues

Predicting human displacements is crucial for addressing various societal challenges, including urban design, traffic congestion, epidemic management, and migration dynamics. While predictive models like deep learning and Markov models…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Sebastiano Bontorin , Simone Centellegher , Riccardo Gallotti , Luca Pappalardo , Bruno Lepri , Massimiliano Luca

We introduce a basic model for human mobility that accounts for the different dynamics arising from individuals embarking on short trips (and returning to their home locations) and individuals relocating to a new home. The differences…

Physics and Society · Physics 2014-10-09 Joseph D. Skufca , Daniel ben-Avraham

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

Large-scale human mobility datasets play increasingly critical roles in many algorithmic systems, business processes and policy decisions. Unfortunately there has been little focus on understanding bias and other fundamental shortcomings of…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Katinka den Nijs , Elisa Omodei , Vedran Sekara

Vehicle mobility has a significant impact on wireless communication between vehicles (buses) in Public Transportation Systems (PTS). Nevertheless, the transportation literature does not provide satisfactory models for bus movements because…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Eduardo R. Manika , Emilio C. G. Wille , Joilson Alves

Accurate human mobility prediction underpins many important applications across a variety of domains, including epidemic modelling, transport planning, and emergency responses. Due to the sparsity of mobility data and the stochastic nature…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-01-10 Xinglei Wang , Meng Fang , Zichao Zeng , Tao Cheng