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Humans navigate complex environments in an organized yet flexible manner, adapting to the context and implicit social rules. Understanding these naturally learned patterns of behavior is essential for applications such as autonomous…

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To achieve seamless human-robot interactions, robots need to intimately reason about complex interaction dynamics and future human behaviors within their motion planning process. However, there is a disconnect between state-of-the-art…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-12-03 Simon Schaefer , Karen Leung , Boris Ivanovic , Marco Pavone

Navigating our physical environment requires changing directions and turning. Despite its ecological importance, we do not have a unified theoretical account of non-straight-line human movement. Here, we present a unified optimality…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2021-11-03 Geoffrey L. Brown , Nidhi Seethapathi , Manoj Srinivasan

The gravity model (GM) analogous to Newton's law of universal gravitation has successfully described the flow between different spatial regions, such as human migration, traffic flows, international economic trades, etc. This simple but…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-09-19 Hye Jin Park , Woo Seong Jo , Sang Hoon Lee , Beom Jun Kim

Traditional crime prediction models based on census data are limited, as they fail to capture the complexity and dynamics of human activity. With the rise of ubiquitous computing, there is the opportunity to improve such models with data…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2018-06-06 Cristina Kadar , Irena Pletikosa

Human mobility modeling is critical for urban planning and transportation management, yet existing approaches often lack the integration capabilities needed to handle diverse data sources. We present a foundation model framework for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Haoxuan Ma , Xishun Liao , Yifan Liu , Qinhua Jiang , Chris Stanford , Shangqing Cao , Jiaqi Ma

The development of automated vehicles has the potential to revolutionize transportation, but they are currently unable to ensure a safe and time-efficient driving style. Reliable models predicting human behavior are essential for overcoming…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Julian F. Schumann , Aravinda Ramakrishnan Srinivasan , Jens Kober , Gustav Markkula , Arkady Zgonnikov

Human route choice is undeniably one of the key contributing factors towards traffic dynamics. However, most existing macroscopic traffic models are typically concerned with driving behavior and do not incorporate human route choice…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-22 Tanushree Roy , Satadru Dey

Mobility is a complex phenomenon encompassing diverse transportation modes, infrastructure elements, and human behaviors. Tackling the persistent challenges of congestion, pollution, and accessibility requires a range of modeling approaches…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-11-08 Marc Barthelemy

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

The gravity model of human mobility has successfully described the deterrence of travels with distance in urban mobility patterns. While a broad spectrum of deterrence was found across different cities, yet it is not empirically clear if…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-12-19 Oh-Hyun Kwon , Inho Hong , Woo-Sung Jung , Hang-Hyun Jo

Recent advances in data collection and technology enable a deeper understanding of complex urban commuting, yet few studies have rigorously analyzed the temporal stability and Origin-Destination (OD) heterogeneity of route choice. To…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-10-15 Yixuan Y Zheng , Hideki Takayasu , Misako Takayasu

Human mobility plays a crucial role in transportation, urban planning, and public health. Advances in deep learning and the availability of diverse mobility data have transformed mobility modeling. However, existing deep learning models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Xishun Liao , Qinhua Jiang , Brian Yueshuai He , Yifan Liu , Chenchen Kuai , Jiaqi Ma

We present and test a sequential learning algorithm for the short-term prediction of human mobility. This novel approach pairs the Exponential Weights forecaster with a very large ensemble of experts. The experts are individual sequence…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-10-23 Bartosz Hawelka , Izabela Sitko , Pavlos Kazakopoulos , Euro Beinat

Human activity spaces are shaped by individual mobility and the built environment, motivating statistical methods that integrate GPS observations with GIS representations of places and routes. We propose a novel methodology to estimate…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-05-12 Haoyang Wu , Yen-Chi Chen , Adrian Dobra

User mobility prediction is widely considered to be helpful for various sorts of location based services on mobile devices. A large amount of studies have explored different algorithms to predict where a user will visit in the future based…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-01-30 Huoran Li

Predicting human mobility across multiple cities presents significant challenges due to the complex and diverse spatial-temporal dynamics inherent in different urban environments. In this study, we propose a robust approach to predict human…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Haoyu He , Haozheng Luo , Qi R. Wang

Deep neural networks are increasingly utilized in mobility prediction tasks, yet their intricate internal workings pose challenges for interpretability, especially in comprehending how various aspects of mobility behavior affect…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-08-02 Ye Hong , Yanan Xin , Simon Dirmeier , Fernando Perez-Cruz , Martin Raubal

Since users move around based on social relationships and interests, the resulting movement patterns can represent how nodes are socially connected (i.e., nodes with strong social ties, nodes that meet occasionally by sharing the same…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-08-01 Waldir Moreira , Paulo Mendes

Human mobility studies how people move to access their needed resources and plays a significant role in urban planning and location-based services. As a paramount task of human mobility modeling, next location prediction is challenging…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Zhaoping Hu , Zongyuan Huang , Jinming Yang , Tao Yang , Yaohui Jin , Yanyan Xu