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Human mobility patterns are complex and distinct from one person to another. Nevertheless, motivated by tremendous potential benefits of modeling such patterns in enabling new mobile services and technologies, researchers have attempted to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2013-07-09 Seyed Kaveh Fayazbakhsh

Modeling and predicting human mobility trajectories in urban areas is an essential task for various applications. The recent availability of large-scale human movement data collected from mobile devices have enabled the development of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-07-10 Takahiro Yabe , Kota Tsubouchi , Toru Shimizu , Yoshihide Sekimoto , Kaoru Sezaki , Esteban Moro , Alex Pentland

Crime has been previously explained by social characteristics of the residential population and, as stipulated by crime pattern theory, might also be linked to human movements of non-residential visitors. Yet a full empirical validation of…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-04-20 Cristina Kadar , Stefan Feuerriegel , Anastasios Noulas , Cecilia Mascolo

Nowadays, human movement in urban spaces can be traced digitally in many cases. It can be observed that movement patterns are not constant, but vary across time and space. In this work,we characterize such spatio-temporal patterns with an…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-02-11 Lisette Espín-Noboa , Florian Lemmerich , Philipp Singer , Markus Strohmaier

The information collected by mobile phone operators can be considered as the most detailed information on human mobility across a large part of the population. The study of the dynamics of human mobility using the collected geolocations of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-11-21 Nicolas Ponieman , Alejo Salles , Carlos Sarraute

The importance of human mobility analyses is growing in both research and practice, especially as applications for urban planning and mobility rely on them. Aggregate statistics and visualizations play an essential role as building blocks…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-11-24 Alexandra Kapp , Saskia Nuñez von Voigt , Helena Mihaljević , Florian Tschorsch

Large-scale human mobility data is a key resource in data-driven policy making and across many scientific fields. Most recently, mobility data was extensively used during the COVID-19 pandemic to study the effects of governmental policies…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-12-24 Frank Schlosser , Vedran Sekara , Dirk Brockmann , Manuel Garcia-Herranz

The study of human mobility patterns is a crucially important research field for its impact on several socio-economic aspects and, in particular, the measure of regularity patters of human mobility can provide a across-the-board view of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-04-20 Fabio Vanni , David Lambert

High-quality human mobility data is crucial for applications such as urban planning, transportation management, and public health, yet its collection is often hindered by privacy concerns and data scarcity-particularly in less-developed…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Yuan Yuan , Yuheng Zhang , Jingtao Ding , Yong Li

Opportunistic networks (OppNets) are modern types of intermittently connected networks in which mobile users communicate with each other via their short-range devices to share data among interested observers. In this setting, humans are the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-08-14 Poria Pirozmand , Guowei Wu , Behrouz Jedari , Feng Xia

Human mobility anomaly detection based on location is essential in areas such as public health, safety, welfare, and urban planning. Developing models and approaches for location-based anomaly detection requires a comprehensive dataset.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Hossein Amiri , Ruochen Kong , Andreas Zufle

Today, GPS-equipped mobile devices are ubiquitous, and they generate Location-Based Service (LBS) data, which has become a critical resource for understanding human mobility. However, inherent limitations in LBS datasets, primarily…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Xinhua Wu , Yanchao Wang , Ekin Ugurel , Cynthia Chen , Shuai Huang , Qi R. Wang

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

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

In this chapter, we discuss urban mobility from a complexity science perspective. First, we give an overview of the datasets that enable this approach, such as mobile phone records, location-based social network traces, or GPS trajectories…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-06-23 Laura Alessandretti , Michael Szell

Understanding individual-level human mobility is critical for a wide range of applications. As such, real-world trajectory datasets provide valuable insights into actual movement behaviors and patterns of life but are often constrained by…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Hossein Amiri , Joon-Seok Kim , Hamdi Kavak , Andrew Crooks , Dieter Pfoser , Carola Wenk , Andreas Züfle

Numerous researchers have utilized GPS-enabled vehicle data and SafeGraph mobility data to analyze human movements. However, the comparison of their ability to capture human mobility remains unexplored. This study investigates differences…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Yuqin Jiang , Zhenlong Li , Joon-Seok Kim , Huan Ning , Su Yeon Han

Location data collected from mobile devices represent mobility behaviors at individual and societal levels. These data have important applications ranging from transportation planning to epidemic modeling. However, issues must be overcome…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-05 Alex Berke , Ronan Doorley , Kent Larson , Esteban Moro

Human mobility patterns refer to the regularities and trends in the way people move, travel, or navigate through different geographical locations over time. Detecting human mobility patterns is essential for a variety of applications,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Yisheng Alison Zheng , Abdallah Lakhdari , Amani Abusafia , Shing Tai Tony Lui , Athman Bouguettaya

Monitoring urban structure and development requires high-quality data at high spatiotemporal resolution. While traditional censuses have provided foundational insights into demographic and socioeconomic aspects of urban life, their pace may…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-03-20 Gezhi Xiu , Jianying Wang , Thilo Gross , Mei-Po Kwan , Xia Peng , Yu Liu