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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…

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The communication devices have produced digital traces for their users either voluntarily or not. This type of collective data can give powerful indications that are affecting the urban systems design and development. In this study mobile…

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Urban mobility is a multi-entity system that involves travelers, transport modes, and infrastructure. Beyond conventional origin/destination analysis, this paper investigates how process mining can structure and interpret mobility behavior…

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Understanding human mobility is essential for applications ranging from urban planning to public health. Traditional mobility models such as flow networks and colocation matrices capture only pairwise interactions between discrete…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Prathyush Sambaturu , Bernardo Gutierrez , Moritz U. G. Kraemer

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…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2013-07-09 Seyed Kaveh Fayazbakhsh

When nodes in a mobile network cluster together or move according to common external factors (e.g., cars that follow the road network), the resulting contact patterns become correlated. In this work we address the question of modelling such…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-09-24 Mikael Asplund , Simin Nadjm-Tehrani

Autonomous driving is a major paradigm shift in transportation, with the potential to enhance safety, optimize traffic congestion, and reduce fuel consumption. Although autonomous vehicles rely on advanced sensors and on-board computing…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Marcello Bullo , Amir Ashtari Gargari , Paolo Testolina , Michele Zorzi , Marco Giordani

In this paper, we present a comprehensive survey of human-mobility modeling based on 1680 articles published between 1999 and 2019, which can serve as a roadmap for research and practice in this area. Mobility modeling research has…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-06-19 Vaibhav Kulkarni , Benoit Garbinato

This tutorial paper analyzes the traffic characteristics of immersive experiences with extended reality (XR) technologies, including Augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR), and mixed reality (MR). The current trend in XR applications…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Abdullah Alnajim , Seyedmohammad Salehi , Chien-Chung Shen , Malcolm Smith

Human Mobility has attracted attentions from different fields of studies such as epidemic modeling, traffic engineering, traffic prediction and urban planning. In this survey we review major characteristics of human mobility studies…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-07-04 Fereshteh Asgari , Vincent Gauthier , Monique Becker

Drivers have distinctively diverse behaviors when operating vehicles in natural traffic flow, such as preferred pedal position, car-following distance, preview time headway, etc. These highly personalized behavioral variations are known to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-28 Yao Ma , Junmin Wang

Understanding human mobility from a microscopic point of view may represent a fundamental breakthrough for the development of a statistical physics for cognitive systems and it can shed light on the applicability of macroscopic statistical…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-01-12 Riccardo Gallotti , Armando Bazzani , Mirko Degli Esposti , Sandro Rambaldi

The ubiquitous use of mobile devices and associated Internet services generates vast volumes of geolocated data, offering valuable insights into human behaviors and their interactions with urban environments. Over the past decade, mobile…

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Vehicle-to-vehicle communications can change the driving behavior of drivers significantly by providing them rich information on downstream traffic flow conditions. This study seeks to model the varying car-following behaviors involving…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-09-18 Lin Liu , Chunyuan Li , Yongfu Li , Srinivas Peeta , Lei Lin

Design and simulation of future mobile networks will center around human interests and behavior. We propose a design paradigm for mobile networks driven by realistic models of users' on-line behavior, based on mining of billions of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2010-05-31 Saeed Moghaddam , Ahmed Helmy , Sanjay Ranka , Manas Somaiya

Modelling dynamic traffic patterns and especially the continuously changing dependencies between different base stations, which previous studies overlook, is challenging. Traditional algorithms struggle to process large volumes of data and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Yini Fang

Analysis of aggregate Web traffic has shown that PageRank is a poor model of how people actually navigate the Web. Using the empirical traffic patterns generated by a thousand users over the course of two months, we characterize the…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2010-04-27 Bruno Goncalves , Mark R. Meiss , Jose J. Ramasco , Alessandro Flammini , Filippo Menczer

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

A better understanding of interactive pedestrian behavior in critical traffic situations is essential for the development of enhanced pedestrian safety systems. Real-world traffic observations play a decisive role in this, since they…

Human mobility is subject to collective dynamics that are the outcome of numerous individual choices. Smart card data which originated as a means of facilitating automated fare collections has emerged as an invaluable source for analyzing…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-08-11 Oded Cats