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The NetMob Data Challenge releases a comprehensive public transportation dataset from Niter\'oi, addressing the lack of high-quality mobility and passenger demand data. Based on operational records from March 2026, the dataset combines four…

Accurate modelling of local population movement patterns is a core contemporary concern for urban policymakers, affecting both the short term deployment of public transport resources and the longer term planning of transport infrastructure.…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-05-21 Chico Q. Camargo , Jonathan Bright , Scott A. Hale

Trip data that records each vehicle's trip activity on the road network describes the operation of urban traffic from the individual perspective, and it is extremely valuable for transportation research. However, restricted by data privacy,…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-02-02 Guilong Li , Yixian Chen , Yimin Wang , Zhi Yu , Peilin Nie , Zhaocheng He

Human mobility modeling is critical for urban planning and transportation management, yet existing approaches often lack the integration capabilities needed to handle diverse data sources. We present a foundation model framework for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Haoxuan Ma , Xishun Liao , Yifan Liu , Qinhua Jiang , Chris Stanford , Shangqing Cao , Jiaqi Ma

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

Monitoring urban structure and development requires high-quality data at high spatiotemporal resolution. While traditional censuses have provided foundational insights into demographic and socioeconomic aspects of urban life, their pace may…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-03-20 Gezhi Xiu , Jianying Wang , Thilo Gross , Mei-Po Kwan , Xia Peng , Yu Liu

In this chapter, we discuss urban mobility from a complexity science perspective. First, we give an overview of the datasets that enable this approach, such as mobile phone records, location-based social network traces, or GPS trajectories…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-06-23 Laura Alessandretti , Michael Szell

Cities around the world are expanding dramatically, with urban population growth reaching nearly 2.5 billion people in urban areas and road traffic growth exceeding 1.2 billion cars by 2050. The economic contribution of the transport sector…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-05-15 Zineb Mahrez , Essaid Sabir , Elarbi Badidi , Walid Saad , Mohamed Sadik

Mobility patterns play a critical role in a wide range of societal challenges, from epidemic modeling and emergency response to transportation planning and regional development. Yet, access to high-quality, timely, and openly available…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Ciro Beneduce , Tania Gullón Muñoz-Repiso , Bruno Lepri , Massimiliano Luca

We describe customized synthetic datasets for publishing mobility data. Private companies are providing new transportation modalities, and their data is of high value for integrative transportation research, policy enforcement, and public…

Databases · Computer Science 2019-01-28 Luke Rodriguez , Babak Salimi , Haoyue Ping , Julia Stoyanovich , Bill Howe

Modeling traffic dynamics is a critical challenge for urban computing, with applications from real-time traffic management to infrastructure planning. However, progress in this area is fundamentally constrained by a lack of large-scale…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Fedor Velikonivtsev , Oleg Platonov , Ekaterina Alimaskina , Gleb Bazhenov , Liudmila Prokhorenkova

The COVID-19 pandemic is changing the world in unprecedented and unpredictable ways. Human mobility is at the epicenter of that change, as the greatest facilitator for the spread of the virus. To study the change in mobility, to evaluate…

Human mobility data offers valuable insights for many applications such as urban planning and pandemic response, but its use also raises privacy concerns. In this paper, we introduce the Hierarchical and Multi-Resolution Network (HRNet), a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Shun Takagi , Li Xiong , Fumiyuki Kato , Yang Cao , Masatoshi Yoshikawa

As autonomous driving systems mature, motion forecasting has received increasing attention as a critical requirement for planning. Of particular importance are interactive situations such as merges, unprotected turns, etc., where predicting…

The NetMob24 dataset offers a unique opportunity for researchers from a range of academic fields to access comprehensive spatiotemporal data sets spanning four countries (India, Mexico, Indonesia, and Colombia) over the course of two years…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Wenlan Zhang , Miguel Nunez del Prado , Vincent Gauthier , Sveta Milusheva

We have released an open dataset with global coverage on road surface characteristics (paved or unpaved) derived utilising 105 million images from the world's largest crowdsourcing-based street view platform, Mapillary, leveraging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Sukanya Randhawa , Eren Aygun , Guntaj Randhawa , Benjamin Herfort , Sven Lautenbach , Alexander Zipf

In response to the soaring needs of human mobility data, especially during disaster events such as the COVID-19 pandemic, and the associated big data challenges, we develop a scalable online platform for extracting, analyzing, and sharing…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-09-15 Zhenlong Li , Xiao Huang , Tao Hu , Huan Ning , Xinyue Ye , Xiaoming Li

Efficient public transport systems are crucial for sustainable urban development as cities face increasing mobility demands. Yet, many public transport networks struggle to meet diverse user needs due to historical development, urban…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Yannick Metz , Dennis Ackermann , Daniel A. Keim , Maximilian T. Fischer

People with limited mobility in the U.S. (defined as having difficulty or inability to walk a quarter of a mile without help and without the use of special equipment) face a growing informational gap: while pedestrian routing algorithms are…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2016-02-16 Nicholas Bolten , Amirhossein Amini , Yun Hao , Vaishnavi Ravichandran , Andre Stephens , Anat Caspi

The study of human mobility is crucial due to its impact on several aspects of our society, such as disease spreading, urban planning, well-being, pollution, and more. The proliferation of digital mobility data, such as phone records, GPS…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-02 Massimiliano Luca , Gianni Barlacchi , Bruno Lepri , Luca Pappalardo