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Despite the growing popularity of human mobility studies that collect GPS location data, the problem of determining the minimum required length of GPS monitoring has not been addressed in the current statistical literature. In this paper we…

Other Statistics · Statistics 2019-08-28 Zhihang Dong , Yen-Chi Chen , Adrian Dobra

The aim of this paper is to solve an inverse problem which regards a mass moving in a bounded domain. We assume that the mass moves following an unknown velocity field and that the evolution of the mass density can be described by partial…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-06-04 Alessandro Alla , Caterina Balzotti , Maya Briani , Emiliano Cristiani

Recently, with the availability of various traffic datasets, human mobility has been studied in different contexts. Researchers attempt to understand the collective behaviors of human movement with respect to the spatio-temporal…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-06-06 Biao Leng , Yali Cui , Jianyuan Wang , Zhang Xiong , Shlomo Havlin , Daqing Li

Understanding the patterns of mobility of individuals is crucial for a number of reasons, from city planning to disaster management. There are two common ways of quantifying the amount of travel between locations: by direct observations…

Physics and Society · Physics 2014-08-25 Vasyl Palchykov , Marija Mitrović , Hang-Hyun Jo , Jari Saramäki , Raj Kumar Pan

Location Based Services (LBS) provide a new perspective for spatiotemporally analyzing dynamic urban systems. Research has investigated urban dynamics using GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications), GPS (Global Positioning System), SNS…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-09-25 Ying Long , Jean-Claude Thill

Pedestrian GPS data are key to a better understanding of micro-mobility and micro-behaviour within a neighbourhood. These data can bring new insights into walkability and livability in the context of urban sustainability. However,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-10-14 Ferran Larroya , Roger Paez , Manuela Valtchanova , Josep Perelló

Life pattern clustering is essential for abstracting the groups' characteristics of daily mobility patterns and activity regularity. Based on millions of GPS records, this paper proposed a framework on the life pattern clustering which can…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Wenjing Li , Haoran Zhang , Jinyu Chen , Peiran Li , Yuhao Yao , Mariko Shibasaki , Xuan Song , Ryosuke Shibasaki

As a vital indicator for measuring urban development, urban areas are expected to be identified explicitly and conveniently with widely available dataset thereby benefiting the planning decisions and relevant urban studies. Existing…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-01-01 Ying Long , Yao Shen

Mobile phone data has enabled the timely and fine-grained study human mobility. Call Detail Records, generated at call events, allow building descriptions of mobility at different resolutions and with different spatial, temporal and social…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-03-17 David Pastor-Escuredo , Enrique Frias-Martinez

As a key energy challenge, we urgently require a better understanding of how growing urban populations interact with municipal energy systems and the resulting impact on energy demand across city neighborhoods, which are dense hubs of both…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-09-06 Neda Mohammadi , John E Taylor

Understanding quantitative relationships between urban elements is crucial for a wide range of applications. The observation at the macroscopic level demonstrates that the aggregated urban quantities (e.g., gross domestic product) scale…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-01-26 Lei Dong , Zhou Huang , Jiang Zhang , Yu Liu

Quantifying the improvement in human living standard, as well as the city growth in developing countries, is a challenging problem due to the lack of reliable economic data. Therefore, there is a fundamental need for alternate, largely…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-12-04 Jiqian Dong , Gopaljee Atulya , Kartikeya Bhardwaj , Radu Marculescu

Understanding the movement behaviours of individuals and the way they react to the external world is a key component of any problem that involves the modelling of human dynamics at a physical level. In particular, it is crucial to capture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Gabriele Galatolo , Mirco Nanni

This is a brief survey of the research performed by Grandata Labs in collaboration with numerous academic groups around the world on the topic of human mobility. A driving theme in these projects is to use and improve Data Science…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-02-27 Carlos Sarraute , Martin Minnoni

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

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

As a widespread form of informal settlements, urban villages present significant challenges for sustainable urban development and governance. Precise mapping of their infrastructure is essential, however, existing remote sensing datasets…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Hongyu Long , Jiaxuan Liu , Rui Cao

Understanding urban mobility patterns and analyzing how people move around cities helps improve the overall quality of life and supports the development of more livable, efficient, and sustainable urban areas. A challenging aspect of this…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-09-05 Prabin Bhandari , Antonios Anastasopoulos , Dieter Pfoser

Intensive development of urban systems creates a number of challenges for urban planners and policy makers in order to maintain sustainable growth. Running efficient urban policies requires meaningful urban metrics, which could quantify…

Transportation companies and organizations routinely collect huge volumes of passenger transportation data. By aggregating these data (e.g., counting the number of passengers going from a place to another in every 30 minute interval), it…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-10-16 Chrysanthi Kosyfaki , Nikos Mamoulis , Reynold Cheng , Ben Kao