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Understanding individual-level human mobility is critical for a wide range of applications. As such, real-world trajectory datasets provide valuable insights into actual movement behaviors and patterns of life but are often constrained by…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Hossein Amiri , Joon-Seok Kim , Hamdi Kavak , Andrew Crooks , Dieter Pfoser , Carola Wenk , Andreas Züfle

Commuting Origin-Destination (OD) flows capture movements of people from residences to workplaces, representing the predominant form of intra-city mobility and serving as a critical reference for understanding urban dynamics and supporting…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Can Rong , Jingtao Ding , Meng Li , Yong Li

Accurate modeling of human mobility is critical for tackling urban planning and public health challenges. In undeveloped regions, the absence of comprehensive travel surveys necessitates reconstructing mobility networks from publicly…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Jinming Yang , Shaoyu Huang , Zongyuan Huang , Yaohui Jin , Xiaokang Yang , Marta C. Gonzalez , Yanyan Xu

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

Deep Neural Networks and Reinforcement Learning methods have empirically shown great promise in tackling challenging combinatorial problems. In those methods a deep neural network is used as a solution generator which is then trained by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Constantine Caramanis , Dimitris Fotakis , Alkis Kalavasis , Vasilis Kontonis , Christos Tzamos

Many causal and structural parameters in economics can be identified and estimated by computing the value of an optimization program over all distributions consistent with the model and the data. Existing tools apply when the data is…

Econometrics · Economics 2025-07-31 Andrei Voronin

Synthetic human mobility generation is gaining traction as an ethical and practical approach to supporting the data needs of intelligent urban systems. Existing methods perform well primarily in data-rich cities, while their effectiveness…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Bo Liu , Tong Li , Zhu Xiao , Ruihui Li , Geyong Min , Zhuo Tang , Kenli Li

It is very important to understand urban mobility patterns because most trips are concentrated in urban areas. In the paper, a new model is proposed to model collective human mobility in urban areas. The model can be applied to predict…

Physics and Society · Physics 2014-10-28 Xiao Liang , Jichang Zhao , Li Dong , Ke Xu

This paper investigates the feasibility of human mobility in extreme urban morphologies characterized by high-density vertical structures and linear city layouts. To assess whether agents can navigate efficiently within such unprecedented…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Abderaouf Bahi , Amel Ourici

We suggest a universal map capable to recover a behavior of a wide range of dynamical systems given by ODEs. The map is built as an artificial neural network whose weights encode a modeled system. We assume that ODEs are known and prepare…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2023-05-02 Pavel V. Kuptsov , Anna V. Kuptsova , Nataliya V. Stankevich

In this work we propose, implement, and evaluate GRM, a novel mobility model that accounts for the role of group meeting dynamics and regularity in human mobility. Specifically, we show that existing mobility models for humans do not…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-06-27 Ivan O. Nunes , Clayson Celes , Michael D. Silva , Pedro O. S. Vaz de Melo , Antonio A. F. Loureiro

The need to reason about uncertainty in large, complex, and multi-modal datasets has become increasingly common across modern scientific environments. The ability to transform samples from one distribution $P$ to another distribution $Q$…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-11-30 Diego A. Mesa , Justin Tantiongloc , Marcela Mendoza , Todd P. Coleman

Human trajectory data is crucial in urban planning, traffic engineering, and public health. However, directly using real-world trajectory data often faces challenges such as privacy concerns, data acquisition costs, and data quality. A…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Qingyue Long , Can Rong , Tong Li , Yong Li

Energy-based models for discrete domains, such as graphs, explicitly capture relative likelihoods, naturally enabling composable probabilistic inference tasks like conditional generation or enforcing constraints at test-time. However,…

Deterministic equilibrium flows in transport networks can be investigated by means of Markov's processes defined on the dual graph representations of the network. Sustained movement patterns are generated by a subset of automorphisms of the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2007-10-30 D. Volchenkov , Ph. Blanchard

We develop a probabilistic framework for global modeling of the traffic over a computer network. This model integrates existing single-link (-flow) traffic models with the routing over the network to capture the global traffic behavior. It…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2010-05-25 Stilian A. Stoev , George Michailidis , Joel Vaughan

Human mobility patterns refer to the regularities and trends in the way people move, travel, or navigate through different geographical locations over time. Detecting human mobility patterns is essential for a variety of applications,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Yisheng Alison Zheng , Abdallah Lakhdari , Amani Abusafia , Shing Tai Tony Lui , Athman Bouguettaya

Traffic simulations, essential for planning urban transit infrastructure interventions, require vehicle-category-specific origin-destination (OD) data. Existing data sources are imperfect: sparse tollbooth sensors provide accurate vehicle…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Oluwaleke Yusuf , Shaira Tabassum

Accurate traffic participant prediction is the prerequisite for collision avoidance of autonomous vehicles. In this work, we predict pedestrians by emulating their own motion planning. From online observations, we infer a mixture density…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-21 Eike Rehder , Florian Wirth , Martin Lauer , Christoph Stiller

Forecasting the trajectory of pedestrians in shared urban traffic environments is still considered one of the challenging problems facing the development of autonomous vehicles (AVs). In the literature, this problem is often tackled using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Khaled Saleh