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Human mobility studies how people move among meaningful places over time and how these movements aggregate into population-level patterns that shape accessibility, congestion, emissions, and public health. Large language models (LLMs) are…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Jie Gao , Yaoxin Wu

Despite the long history of modelling human mobility, we continue to lack a highly accurate approach with low data requirements for predicting mobility patterns in cities. Here, we present a population-weighted opportunities model without…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-10-03 Xiao-Yong Yan , Chen Zhao , Ying Fan , Zengru Di , Wen-Xu Wang

Human trajectory data is crucial in urban planning, traffic engineering, and public health. However, directly using real-world trajectory data often faces challenges such as privacy concerns, data acquisition costs, and data quality. A…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Qingyue Long , Can Rong , Tong Li , Yong Li

Modeling human mobility helps to understand how people are accessing resources and physically contacting with each other in cities, and thus contributes to various applications such as urban planning, epidemic control, and location-based…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Zongyuan Huang , Shengyuan Xu , Menghan Wang , Hansi Wu , Yanyan Xu , Yaohui Jin

Urban trajectories play a crucial role in modeling urban dynamics and supporting various smart city applications. However, privacy concerns restrict access to large-scale and high-quality trajectory datasets. Trajectory generation provides…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Silin Zhou , Chenhao Wang , Yuntao Wen , Shuo Shang , Lisi Chen , Panos Kalnis

In the last decade, digital footprints have been used to cluster population activity into functional areas of cities. However, a key aspect has been overlooked: we experience our cities not only by performing activities at specific…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-01-30 Eduardo Graells-Garrido , Diego Caro , Denis Parra

Understanding how humans use and consume space by comparing stratified groups, either through observation or controlled study, is key to designing better spaces, cities, and policies. GPS data traces provide detailed movement patterns of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-02-20 Rui Zhang , Kevin G. Stanley , Daniel Fuller , Scott Bell

A `trajectory' refers to a trace generated by a moving object in geographical spaces, usually represented by of a series of chronologically ordered points, where each point consists of a geo-spatial coordinate set and a timestamp. Rapid…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Seongjin Choi

Human mobility is investigated using a continuum approach that allows to calculate the probability to observe a trip to anyarbitrary region, and the fluxes between any two regions. The considered description offers a general and unified…

Physics and Society · Physics 2013-04-02 Filippo Simini , Amos Maritan , Zoltán Néda

The theme of human mobility is transversal to multiple fields of study and applications, from ad-hoc networks to smart cities, from transportation planning to recommendation systems on social networks. Despite the considerable efforts made…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-10-21 Maria Luisa Damiani , Fatima Hachem , Christian Quadri , Matteo Rossini , Sabrina Gaito

In this paper we address the problem of modeling relational data, which appear in many applications such as social network analysis, recommender systems and bioinformatics. Previous studies either consider latent feature based models but…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-04-13 Sheng Gao , Ludovic Denoyer , Patrick Gallinari

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

Human mobility generation aims to synthesize plausible trajectory data, which is widely used in urban system research. While Large Language Model-based methods excel at generating routine trajectories, they struggle to capture deviated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Yusong Wang , Chuang Yang , Jiawei Wang , Xiaohang Xu , Jiayi Xu , Dongyuan Li , Chuan Xiao , Renhe Jiang

We develop a human movement trajectory prediction system that incorporates the scene information (Scene-LSTM) as well as human movement trajectories (Pedestrian movement LSTM) in the prediction process within static crowded scenes. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-16 Huynh Manh , Gita Alaghband

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

Trajectory prediction serves as a critical functionality in autonomous driving, enabling the anticipation of future motion paths for traffic participants such as vehicles and pedestrians, which is essential for driving safety. Although…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Wei Dai , Shengen Wu , Wei Wu , Zhenhao Wang , Sisuo Lyu , Haicheng Liao , Limin Yu , Weiping Ding , Runwei Guan , Yutao Yue

Predicting human mobility patterns has many practical applications in urban planning, traffic engineering, infectious disease epidemiology, emergency management and location-based services. Developing a universal model capable of accurately…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-04-22 Erjian Liu , Xiao-Yong Yan

In this paper, we solve the problem of predicting the next locations of the moving objects with a historical dataset of trajectories. We present a Next Location Predictor with Markov Modeling (NLPMM) which has the following advantages: (1)…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-03-17 Meng Chen , Yang Liu , Xiaohui Yu

In this paper, we propose an efficient vehicle trajectory prediction framework based on recurrent neural network. Basically, the characteristic of the vehicle's trajectory is different from that of regular moving objects since it is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-09-04 ByeoungDo Kim , Chang Mook Kang , Seung Hi Lee , Hyunmin Chae , Jaekyum Kim , Chung Choo Chung , Jun Won Choi

Despite the extensive collection of individual mobility data over the past decade, fueled by the widespread use of GPS-enabled personal devices, the existing statistical literature on estimating human spatial mobility patterns from…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-09-03 Malcolm Wolff , Adrian Dobra , Anton H. Westveld , Grace S. Chiu