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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

Traditional sources of population data, such as censuses and surveys, are costly, infrequent, and often unavailable in crisis-affected regions. Mobile phone application data offer near real-time, high-resolution insights into population…

Applications · Statistics 2025-09-04 Carmen Cabrera , Francisco Rowe

Shifting to cycling in urban areas reduces greenhouse gas emissions and improves public health. Street-level bicycle volume information would aid cities in planning targeted infrastructure improvements to encourage cycling and provide civil…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Silke K. Kaiser , Nadja Klein , Lynn H. Kaack

The increase in perception capabilities of connected mobile sensor platforms (e.g., self-driving vehicles, drones, and robots) leads to an extensive surge of sensed features at various temporal and spatial scales. Beyond their traditional…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-06 Alphonse Vial , Gustaf Hendeby , Winnie Daamen , Bart van Arem , Serge Hoogendoorn

Cycling is a cornerstone of a sustainable mobility transition in cities. Cycling research depends on the data available, but it has been difficult to produce or access these data in comparable ways. Sports tracking platforms like Strava…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-03-03 Robert Klein , Elias Willberg , Silviya Korpilo , Tuuli Toivonen

Activity-based models in transport are crucial for providing a comprehensive and realistic understanding of individuals' activity-travel patterns. Traditionally, travel surveys have been used to develop these models, but they are often…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Çağlar Tozluoğlu , Yuan Liao , Frances Sprei

Social navigation and pedestrian behavior research has shifted towards machine learning-based methods and converged on the topic of modeling inter-pedestrian interactions and pedestrian-robot interactions. For this, large-scale datasets…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Allan Wang , Daisuke Sato , Yasser Corzo , Sonya Simkin , Abhijat Biswas , Aaron Steinfeld

Big, transport-related datasets are nowadays publicly available, which makes data-driven mobility analysis possible. Trips with their origins, destinations and travel times are collected in publicly available big databases, which allows for…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-11-26 Guido Cantelmo , Kucharski Rafal , Constantinos Antoniou

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

Understanding and predicting pedestrian dynamics has become essential for shaping safer, more responsive, and human-centered urban environments. This study conducts a comprehensive scientometric analysis of research on data-driven…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Junhao Xu , Hui Zeng

Wireless mobile grids are one of the emerging grid types, which help to pool the resources of several willing and cooperative mobile devices to resolve a computationally intensive task. The mobile grids exhibit stronger challenges like…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2010-02-10 A. S. Nandeppanavar , M. N. Birje , S. S. Manvi , Shridhar

Human mobility has a significant impact on several layers of society, from infrastructural planning and economics to the spread of diseases and crime. Representing the system as a complex network, in which nodes are assigned to regions…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-08-14 Gabriel Spadon , Andre C. P. L. F. de Carvalho , Jose F. Rodrigues-Jr , Luiz G. A. Alves

Mobility and network traffic have been traditionally studied separately. Their interaction is vital for generations of future mobile services and effective caching, but has not been studied in depth with real-world big data. In this paper,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-11-07 Babak Alipour , Mimonah Al Qathrady , Ahmed Helmy

Usage of mobile wireless Internet has grown very fast in recent years. This radical change in availability of Internet has led to communication of big amount of data over mobile networks and consequently new challenges and opportunities for…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-12-20 Saeed Moghaddam , Ahmed Helmy

Many human social phenomena, such as cooperation, the growth of settlements, traffic dynamics and pedestrian movement, appear to be accessible to mathematical descriptions that invoke self-organization. Here we develop a model of pedestrian…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-25 Dirk Helbing , Joachim Keltsch , Peter Molnar

In this paper, we present a three-step methodological framework, including location identification, bias modification, and out-of-sample validation, so as to promote human mobility analysis with social media data. More specifically, we…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-08-15 Yilan Cui , Xing Xie , Yi Liu

Recent years have witnessed an explosion of extensive geolocated datasets related to human movement, enabling scientists to quantitatively study individual and collective mobility patterns, and to generate models that can capture and…

Cycling is a green transportation mode, and is promoted by many governments to mitigate traffic congestion. However, studies concerning the traffic dynamics of bicycle flow are very limited. This study experimentally investigated bicycle…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2019-04-15 Ning Guo , Rui Jiang , SC Wong , Qing-Yi Hao , Shu-Qi Xue , Mao-Bin Hu

In this paper, we present an activity-based model for the Greater Melbourne area, using a combination of hierarchical clustering, probabilistic, and gravity-based approaches. The model outlines steps for generating a synthetic population-a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Alan Both , Dhirendra Singh , Afshin Jafari , Billie Giles-Corti , Lucy Gunn

Mobile sensing is an emerging technology that utilizes agent-participatory data for decision making or state estimation, including multimedia applications. This article investigates the structure of mobile sensing schemes and introduces…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Pin-Yu Chen , Shin-Ming Cheng , Pai-Shun Ting , Chia-Wei Lien , Fu-Jen Chu