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Human mobility has been traditionally studied using surveys that deliver snapshots of population displacement patterns. The growing accessibility to ICT information from portable digital media has recently opened the possibility of…

Rapid advances in modern communication technology are enabling the accumulation of large-scale, high-resolution observational data of spatiotemporal movements of humans. Classification and prediction of human mobility based on the analysis…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-03-16 Juyong Park , Deok-Sun Lee , Marta C. Gonzalez

Rapid urbanization places increasing stress on already burdened transportation systems, resulting in delays and poor levels of service. Billions of spatiotemporal call detail records (CDRs) collected from mobile devices create new…

Physics and Society · Physics 2014-03-05 Jameson L. Toole , Serdar Colak , Fahad Alhasoun , Alexandre Evsukoff , Marta C. Gonzalez

Human mobility demonstrates a high degree of regularity, which facilitates the discovery of lifestyle profiles. Existing research has yet to fully utilize the regularities embedded in high-order features extracted from human mobility…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-04 Yeshuo Shu , Gangcheng Zhang , Keyi Liu , Jintong Tang , Liyan Xu

Predicting human displacements is crucial for addressing various societal challenges, including urban design, traffic congestion, epidemic management, and migration dynamics. While predictive models like deep learning and Markov models…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Sebastiano Bontorin , Simone Centellegher , Riccardo Gallotti , Luca Pappalardo , Bruno Lepri , Massimiliano Luca

We introduce a surveillance strategy specifically designed for urban areas to enhance preparedness and response to disease outbreaks by leveraging the unique characteristics of human behavior within urban contexts. By integrating data on…

Many modern and growing cities are facing declines in public transport usage, with few efficient methods to explain why. In this article, we show that urban mobility patterns and transport mode choices can be derived from cellphone call…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-09-02 Thomas Holleczek , Liang Yu , Joseph K. Lee , Oliver Senn , Kristian Kloeckl , Carlo Ratti , Patrick Jaillet

Extracting significant places or places of interest (POIs) using individuals' spatio-temporal data is of fundamental importance for human mobility analysis. Classical clustering methods have been used in prior work for detecting POIs, but…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-07-03 Yunlong Wang , Bjoern Sommer , Falk Schreiber , Harald Reiterer

Urban rail services are the principal means of public transportation in many cities. To understand the crowding patterns and develop efficient operation strategies in the system, obtaining path choices is important. This paper proposed an…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-01-17 Baichuan Mo , Zhenliang Ma , Haris N. Koutsopoulos , Jinhua Zhao

Human mobility regularity is crucial for understanding urban dynamics and informing decision-making processes. This study first quantifies the periodicity in complex human mobility data as a sparse identification of dominant positive…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-09-15 Xinyu Chen , Qi Wang , Yunhan Zheng , Nina Cao , HanQin Cai , Jinhua Zhao

The research objectives are exploring characteristics of human mobility patterns, subsequently modelling them mathematically depending on inter-event time and traveled distances parameters using CDRs (Call Detailed Records). The…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-07-16 Suhad Faisal Behadili , Cyrille Bertelle , Loay E. George

Data volume grows explosively with the proliferation of powerful smartphones and innovative mobile applications. The ability to accurately and extensively monitor and analyze these data is necessary. Much concern in mobile data analysis is…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-09-01 Mohammadhossein Ghahramani , MengChu Zhou , Gang Wang

We assume that urban travelers may prefer flexible modes of transportation over conventional public transport (PT) for making non-routine trips, and estimate the potential for such modal switch based on a database of 63 million smartcard…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-12-12 Nir Fulman , Maria Marinov , Itzhak Benenson

In this work, we present a transformer-based framework for predicting future pedestrian states based on clustered historical trajectory data. In previous studies, researchers propose enhancing pedestrian trajectory predictions by using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-29 Kleio Fragkedaki , Frank J. Jiang , Karl H. Johansson , Jonas Mårtensson

Socio-economic characteristics are influencing the temporal and spatial variability of water demand - the biggest source of uncertainties within water distribution system modeling. Improving our knowledge on these influences can be utilized…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-30 D. B. Steffelbauer , E. J. M. Blokker , S. G. Buchberger , A. Knobbe , E. Abraham

The notion of socioeconomic status (SES) of a person or family reflects the corresponding entity's social and economic rank in society. Such information may help applications like bank loaning decisions and provide measurable inputs for…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2019-05-15 Shichang Ding , Hong Huang , Tao Zhao , Xiaoming Fu

While benefiting people's daily life in so many ways, smartphones and their location-based services are generating massive mobile device location data that has great potential to help us understand travel demand patterns and make…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-10 Chenfeng Xiong , Aref Darzi , Yixuan Pan , Sepehr Ghader , Lei Zhang

Nighttime lights satellite imagery has been used for decades as a uniform, global source of data for studying a wide range of socioeconomic factors. Recently, another more terrestrial source is producing data with similarly uniform global…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-03-18 Brian Dickinson , Gourab Ghoshal , Xerxes Dotiwalla , Adam Sadilek , Henry Kautz

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

This research introduces a mathematical framework to comprehending human mobility patterns, integrating mathematical modeling and economic analysis. The study focuses on latent-variable networks, investigating the dynamics of human mobility…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-07-27 Fabio Vanni