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A fundamental question in nonequilibrium statistical physics is whether effective equilibrium behavior can emerge at coarse-grained scales in strongly driven systems. Here, we investigate this question in the context of human mobility by…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-03-24 Lei Dong

Wearable devices continuously collect sensor data and use it to infer an individual's behavior, such as sleep, physical activity, and emotions. Despite the significant interest and advancements in this field, modeling multimodal sensor data…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-15 Janosch Jungo , Yutong Xiang , Shkurta Gashi , Christian Holz

Human mobility in cities is shaped not only by visible structures such as highways, rivers, and parks but also by invisible barriers rooted in socioeconomic segregation, uneven access to amenities, and administrative divisions. Yet…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Guangyuan Weng , Minsuk Kim , Yong-Yeol Ahn , Esteban Moro

Multivariate Time Series (MTS) data capture temporal behaviors to provide invaluable insights into various physical dynamic phenomena. In smart mobility, MTS plays a crucial role in providing temporal dynamics of behaviors such as maneuver…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Thabang Lebese

While benefiting people's daily life in so many ways, smartphones and their location-based services are generating massive mobile device location data that has great potential to help us understand travel demand patterns and make…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-10 Chenfeng Xiong , Aref Darzi , Yixuan Pan , Sepehr Ghader , Lei Zhang

Prediction of network traffic behavior is significant for the effective management of modern telecommunication networks. However, the intuitive approach of predicting network traffic using administrative experience and market analysis data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-04 Sajal Saha , Anwar Haque , Greg Sidebottom

Studies using massive, passively data collected from communication technologies have revealed many ubiquitous aspects of social networks, helping us understand and model social media, information diffusion, and organizational dynamics. More…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-02-04 Jameson L. Toole , Carlos Herrera-Yague , Christian M. Schneider , Marta C. Gonzalez

The importance of personal mobility data is widely recognized in various fields. However, the utilization of real personal mobility data raises privacy concerns. Therefore, it is crucial to generate pseudo personal mobility data that…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Peiran Li , Haoran Zhang , Wenjing Li , Dou Huang , Jinyu Chen , Junxiang Zhang , Xuan Song , Pengjun Zhao , Shibasaki Ryosuke

Predicting individual mobility patterns is crucial across various applications. While current methods mainly focus on predicting the next location for personalized services like recommendations, they often fall short in supporting broader…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Zongyuan Huang , Weipeng Wang , Shaoyu Huang , Marta C. Gonzalez , Yaohui Jin , Yanyan Xu

Urban mobility increasingly relies on multimodality, combining the use of bicycle paths, streets, and rail networks. These different modes of transportation are well described by multiplex networks. Here we propose the overlap census method…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-06-16 Luis Natera , Federico Battiston , Gerardo Iñiguez , Michael Szell

Traffic flow prediction is a big challenge for transportation authorities as it helps plan and develop better infrastructure. State-of-the-art models often struggle to consider the data in the best way possible, as well as intrinsic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Mayur Patil , Qadeer Ahmed , Shawn Midlam-Mohler

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

Modelling human mobility is crucial in several areas, from urban planning to epidemic modeling, traffic forecasting, and what-if analysis. On the one hand, existing models focus mainly on reproducing the spatial and temporal dimensions of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Giuliano Cornacchia , Giulio Rossetti , Luca Pappalardo

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…

The description of complex human mobility patterns is at the core of many important applications ranging from urbanism and transportation to epidemics containment. Data about collective human movements, once scarce, has become widely…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-11-21 Riccardo Gallotti , Davide Maniscalco , Marc Barthelemy , Manlio De Domenico

Effective climate mitigation strategies in cities rely on understanding and mapping urban carbon footprints. One significant source of carbon is a product of lifestyle choices and travel behaviors of urban residents. Although previous…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-09-15 Akhil Anil Rajput , Yuqin Jiang , Sanjay Nayak , Ali Mostafavi

Travel time prediction is central to transport geography and planning's accessibility analyses, sustainable transportation infrastructure provision, and active transportation interventions. However, calculating accurate travel times,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-02-18 Geoff Boeing , Yuquan Zhou

Statistics on migration flows are often derived from census data, which suffer from intrinsic limitations, including costs and infrequent sampling. When censuses are used, there is typically a time gap - up to a few years - between the data…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Massimiliano Luca , Gianni Barlacchi , Nuria Oliver , Bruno Lepri

Travel demand models are critical tools for planning, policy, and mobility system design. Traditional activity-based models (ABMs), although grounded in behavioral theories, often rely on simplified rules and assumptions, and are costly to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Xishun Liao , Haoxuan Ma , Yifan Liu , Yuxiang Wei , Brian Yueshuai He , Chris Stanford , Jiaqi Ma

Recently, transfer subspace learning based approaches have shown to be a valid alternative to unsupervised subspace clustering and temporal data clustering for human motion segmentation (HMS). These approaches leverage prior knowledge from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-30 Mariella Dimiccoli , Lluís Garrido , Guillem Rodriguez-Corominas , Herwig Wendt