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Providing network connectivity to mobile users is a key requirement for cellular wireless networks. User mobility impacts network performance as well as user perceived service quality. For efficient network dimensioning and optimization, it…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-05-09 Hina Tabassum , Mohammad Salehi , Ekram Hossain

Many of our routines and activities are linked to our ability to move; be it commuting to work, shopping for groceries, or meeting friends. Yet, factors that limit the individuals' ability to fully realise their mobility needs will…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-03-04 Mariana Macedo , Laura Lotero , Alessio Cardillo , Ronaldo Menezes , Hugo Barbosa

People's daily activities in the urban environment are complex and vary by individuals. Existing studies using mobile phone data revealed distinct and recurrent transitional activity patterns, known as mobility motifs, in people's daily…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Junjun Yin , Guangqing Chi

Understanding the relationship between spatial structures of cities and environmental hazard exposures (such as urban heat) is essential for urban health and sustainability planning. However, a critical knowledge gap exists in terms of the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-01-18 Xinke Huang , Yuqin Jiang , Ali Mostafavi

Quantification of the overall characteristics of urban mobility using coarse-grained methods is crucial for urban management, planning and sustainable development. Although some recent studies have provided quantification methods for…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-08-03 Hao Wang , Pengjun Zhao , Xiao-Yong Yan

This paper presents a new large scale multi-person tracking dataset -- \texttt{PersonPath22}, which is over an order of magnitude larger than currently available high quality multi-object tracking datasets such as MOT17, HiEve, and MOT20…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-07 Bing Shuai , Alessandro Bergamo , Uta Buechler , Andrew Berneshawi , Alyssa Boden , Joseph Tighe

We applied a data-driven approach that explores the usability of the NetMob 2023 dataset in modelling mobility patterns within an urban context. We combined the data with a highly suitable external source, the ENACT dataset, which provides…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-17 Panayotis Christidis , Maria Vega Gonzalo , Miklos Radics

The availability of cellphone geolocation data provides a remarkable opportunity to study human mobility patterns and how these patterns are affected by the recent pandemic. Two simple centrality metrics allow us to measure two different…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-08-16 Oscar Fontanelli , Dulce I. Valdivia , Guillermo Romero , Oliver Medina , Wentian Li , Maribel Hernández-Rosales

In this article, we present a distributed framework for collecting and analyzing environmental and location data recorded by human users (carriers) with the use of portable sensors. We demonstrate the data mining analysis potential among…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2013-08-02 John Gekas

In recent years, we have seen scientists attempt to model and explain human dynamics and, in particular, human movement. Many aspects of our complex life are affected by human movements such as disease spread and epidemics modeling, city…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-11-05 Hugo Barbosa , Fernando Buarque de Lima Neto , Alexandre Evsukoff , Ronaldo Menezes

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

The success of foundation models in language has inspired a new wave of general-purpose models for human mobility. However, existing approaches struggle to scale effectively due to two fundamental limitations: a failure to use meaningful…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Chonghua Han , Yuan Yuan , Jingtao Ding , Jie Feng , Fanjin Meng , Yong Li

Although highly valuable for a variety of applications, urban mobility data is rarely made openly available as it contains sensitive personal information. Synthetic data aims to solve this issue by generating artificial data that resembles…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Alexandra Kapp , Julia Hansmeyer , Helena Mihaljević

Understanding human mobility patterns is crucial for urban planning, transportation management, and public health. This study tackles two primary challenges in the field: the reliance on trajectory data, which often fails to capture the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Xishun Liao , Yifan Liu , Chenchen Kuai , Haoxuan Ma , Yueshuai He , Shangqing Cao , Chris Stanford , Jiaqi Ma

Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks (VANET) are self-organized, distributed communication networks built up from moving vehicles where each node is characterized by variable speed, strict limits of freedom in movement patterns and a variety of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2013-04-17 Alice Castellano , Francesca Cuomo

In response to the soaring needs of human mobility data, especially during disaster events such as the COVID-19 pandemic, and the associated big data challenges, we develop a scalable online platform for extracting, analyzing, and sharing…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-09-15 Zhenlong Li , Xiao Huang , Tao Hu , Huan Ning , Xinyue Ye , Xiaoming Li

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

Recently, multiple naturalistic traffic datasets of human-driven trajectories have been published (e.g., highD, NGSim, and pNEUMA). These datasets have been used in studies that investigate variability in human driving behavior, for example…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-16 Olger Siebinga , Arkady Zgonnikov , David Abbink

Next location prediction is a critical task in human mobility modeling, enabling applications like travel planning and urban mobility management. Existing methods mainly rely on historical spatiotemporal trajectory data to train sequence…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Bangchao Deng , Lianhua Ji , Chunhua Chen , Xin Jing , Ling Ding , Bingqing QU , Pengyang Wang , Dingqi Yang

Human movements in the workspace usually have non-negligible relations with air quality parameters (e.g., CO$_2$, PM2.5, and PM10). We establish a system to monitor indoor human mobility with air quality and assess the interrelationship…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Kyle K. Qin , Mohammad S. Rahaman , Yongli Ren , Chi-Tsun Cheng , Ivan Cole , Flora D. Salim