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Robust prediction of citywide traffic flows at different time periods plays a crucial role in intelligent transportation systems. While previous work has made great efforts to model spatio-temporal correlations, existing methods still…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-07 Jiahao Ji , Jingyuan Wang , Chao Huang , Junjie Wu , Boren Xu , Zhenhe Wu , Junbo Zhang , Yu Zheng

Predictive models for human mobility have important applications in many fields such as traffic control, ubiquitous computing and contextual advertisement. The predictive performance of models in literature varies quite broadly, from as…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2016-08-08 Andrea Cuttone , Sune Lehmann , Marta C. González

Predicting individuals' next locations is a core task in human mobility modelling, with wide-ranging implications for urban planning, transportation, public policy and personalised mobility services. Traditional approaches largely depend on…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Xinglei Wang , Tao Cheng , Stephen Law , Zichao Zeng , Ilya Ilyankou , Junyuan Liu , Lu Yin , Weiming Huang , Natchapon Jongwiriyanurak

Next location prediction is a critical task in human mobility analysis.Existing methods typically formulate it as a classification task based on discrete location IDs, which hinders spatial continuity modeling and limits generalization to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Shuai Liu , Ning Cao , Yile Chen , Yue Jiang , George Rosario Jagadeesh , Gao Cong

Mobility analysis is a crucial element in the research area of transportation systems. Forecasting traffic information offers a viable solution to address the conflict between increasing transportation demands and the limitations of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-24 Zijian Zhang , Yujie Sun , Zepu Wang , Yuqi Nie , Xiaobo Ma , Ruolin Li , Peng Sun , Xuegang Ban

Next Location Prediction is a fundamental task in the study of human mobility, with wide-ranging applications in transportation planning, urban governance, and epidemic forecasting. In practice, when humans attempt to predict the next…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Ruixing Zhang , Yang Zhang , Tongyu Zhu , Leilei Sun , Weifeng Lv

In this paper, we propose machine learning solutions to predict the time of future trips and the possible distance the vehicle will travel. For this prediction task, we develop and investigate four methods. In the first method, we use long…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Ebrahim Balouji , Jonas Sjöblom , Nikolce Murgovski , Morteza Haghir Chehreghani

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…

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The widespread use of positioning devices (e.g., GPS) has given rise to a vast body of human movement data, often in the form of trajectories. Understanding human mobility patterns could benefit many location-based applications. In this…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-03-18 Meng Chen , Xiaohui Yu , Yang Liu

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

The study of human mobility is crucial due to its impact on several aspects of our society, such as disease spreading, urban planning, well-being, pollution, and more. The proliferation of digital mobility data, such as phone records, GPS…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-02 Massimiliano Luca , Gianni Barlacchi , Bruno Lepri , Luca Pappalardo

Nowadays mobile communication is growing fast in the 5G communication industry. With the increasing capacity requirements and requirements for quality of experience, mobility prediction has been widely applied to mobile communication and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-15 Donglin Wang , Qiuheng Zhou , Sanket Partani , Anjie Qiu , Hans D. Schotten

Humans can look at a static scene and instantly predict what happens next -- will moving this object cause a collision? We call this ability Causal Spatial Reasoning. However, current multimodal large language models (MLLMs) cannot do this,…

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Urban transportation systems encounter diverse challenges across multiple tasks, such as traffic forecasting, electric vehicle (EV) charging demand prediction, and taxi dispatch. Existing approaches suffer from two key limitations:…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Jiaming Leng , Yunying Bi , Chuan Qin , Bing Yin , Yanyong Zhang , Chao Wang

Time series prediction can be generalized as a process that extracts useful information from historical records and then determines future values. Learning long-range dependencies that are embedded in time series is often an obstacle for…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-10-25 Yuxiu Hua , Zhifeng Zhao , Rongpeng Li , Xianfu Chen , Zhiming Liu , Honggang Zhang

Human motion prediction from motion capture data is a classical problem in the computer vision, and conventional methods take the holistic human body as input. These methods ignore the fact that, in various human activities, different body…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-09 Xiao Guo , Jongmoo Choi

Mobile traffic data in urban regions shows differentiated patterns during different hours of the day. The exploitation of these patterns enables highly accurate mobile traffic prediction for proactive network management. However, recent…

Predicting the locations an individual will visit in the future is crucial for solving many societal issues like disease diffusion and reduction of pollution. However, next-location predictors require a significant amount of…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-08-26 Ciro Beneduce , Bruno Lepri , Massimiliano Luca

Predicting future states of dynamic agents is a fundamental task in autonomous driving. An expressive representation for this purpose is Occupancy Flow Fields, which provide a scalable and unified format for modeling motion, spatial extent,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Peter Lengyel

In an intelligent transportation system, the key problem of traffic forecasting is how to extract periodic temporal dependencies and complex spatial correlations. Current state-of-the-art methods for predicting traffic flow are based on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Zichuan Liu , Rui Zhang , Chen Wang , Zhu Xiao , Hongbo Jiang