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Estimation of origin-destination (OD) demand plays a key role in successful transportation studies. In this paper, we consider the estimation of time-varying day-to-day OD flows given data on traffic volumes in a transportation network for…

Short-term OD flow (i.e. the number of passenger traveling between stations) prediction is crucial to traffic management in metro systems. Due to the delayed effect in latest complete OD flow collection, complex spatiotemporal correlations…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-10-19 Jiexia Ye , Juanjuan Zhao , Furong Zheng , Chengzhong Xu

We present a generative model of human mobility in which trajectories arise as realizations of a prescribed, time-dependent Markov dynamics defined on a spatial interaction network. The model constructs a hierarchical routing structure with…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-01-12 David A. Meyer , Asif Shakeel

The paper presents an approach to estimate Origin-Destination (OD) flows and their path splits, based on traffic counts on links in the network. The approach called Compressive Origin-Destination Estimation (CODE) is inspired by Compressive…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2014-07-23 Borhan M. Sanandaji , Pravin P. Varaiya

Walking and cycling, commonly referred to as active travel, have become integral components of modern transport planning. Recently, there has been growing recognition of the substantial role that active travel can play in making cities more…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-05-06 Ivann Schlosser , Valentina Marín Maureira , Richard Milton , Elsa Arcaute , Michael Batty

Understanding human mobility is vital to solving societal challenges, such as epidemic control and urban transportation optimization. Recent advancements in data collection now enable the exploration of dynamic mobility patterns in human…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Yunhan Du , Takaaki Aoki , Naoya Fujiwara

Understanding urban human mobility patterns at various spatial levels is essential for social science. This study presents a machine learning framework to downscale origin-destination (OD) taxi trips flows in New York City from a larger…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Yuqin Jiang , Andrey A. Popov , Tianle Duan , Qingchun Li

Urban traffic congestion remains a persistent issue for cities worldwide. Recent macroscopic models have adopted a mathematically well-defined relation between network flow and density to characterize traffic states over an urban region.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-09 Mostafa Ameli , Jean-Patrick Lebacque , Negin Alisoltani , Ludovic Leclercq

This study develops a cybernetically inspired mixed-methods framework that bridges the gap between policy formation and implementation through feedback-driven analysis of mobility transitions. Using a major campus consolidation in…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-11-11 Oluwaleke Yusuf , Morten Breivik , Adil Rasheed

In this paper we revisit the concept of mobility entropy. Over time, the structure of spatial interactions among urban centres tends to become more complex and evolves from centralised models to more scattered origin and destination…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-06-30 Valentina Marin , Carlos Molinero , Elsa Arcaute

Dynamic origin-destination (OD) demand is central to transportation system modeling and analysis. The dynamic OD demand estimation problem (DODE) has been studied for decades, most of which solve the DODE problem on a typical day or several…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-20 Wei Ma , Zhen , Qian

There are substantial differences in travel behavior by gender on public transit. Studies have concluded that these differences are largely attributable to household responsibilities typically falling disproportionately on women, leading to…

Human activity spaces are shaped by individual mobility and the built environment, motivating statistical methods that integrate GPS observations with GIS representations of places and routes. We propose a novel methodology to estimate…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-05-12 Haoyang Wu , Yen-Chi Chen , Adrian Dobra

Human mobility plays a critical role in urban planning and policy-making. However, at certain spatial and temporal resolutions, it is very challenging to track, for example, job and housing mobility. In this study, we explore the usage of a…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Yawen Zhang , Seth Spielman , Qi Liu , Si Shen , Jason Shuo Zhang , Qin Lv

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

Time-Spatial data plays a crucial role for different fields such as traffic management. These data can be collected via devices such as surveillance sensors or tracking systems. However, how to efficiently an- alyze and visualize these data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-11 Zhenghao Chen , Jianlong Zhou , Xiuying Wang

Network traffic matrix estimation is an ill-posed linear inverse problem: it requires to estimate the unobservable origin destination traffic flows, X, given the observable link traffic flows, Y, and a binary routing matrix, A, which are…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-12-20 Syed Muhammad Atif , Nicolas Gillis , Sameer Qazi , Imran Naseem

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…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Khristina Filonchik , Jose Pedro Pinto , Flávio L. Pinheiro , Fernando Bacao

The estimation of the number of passengers with the identical journey is a common problem for public transport authorities. This problem is also known as the Origin- Destination estimation (OD) problem and it has been widely studied for the…

Applications · Statistics 2013-05-31 Adrien Ickowicz , Ross Sparks

Origin-Destination (OD) matrices are a core component of research on users' mobility and summarize how individuals move between geographical regions. These regions should be small enough to be representative of user mobility, without…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Pietro Armenante , Kai Huang , Nikhil Jha , Luca Vassio