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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…

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Human mobility studies how people move among meaningful places over time and how these movements aggregate into population-level patterns that shape accessibility, congestion, emissions, and public health. Large language models (LLMs) are…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Jie Gao , Yaoxin Wu

The latent position network model (LPM) is a popular approach for the statistical analysis of network data. A central aspect of this model is that it assigns nodes to random positions in a latent space, such that the probability of an…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-02-02 Chaoyi Lu , Riccardo Rastelli , Nial Friel

The evolution of communities in dynamic (time-varying) network data is a prominent topic of interest. A popular approach to understanding these dynamic networks is to embed the dyadic relations into a latent metric space. While methods for…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-03-18 Joshua Daniel Loyal , Yuguo Chen

We develop two statistical models for space-time abundance data based on a stochastic underlying continuous individual movement. In contrast to current models for abundance in statistical ecology, our models exploit the explicit connection…

Applications · Statistics 2024-09-24 Ricardo Carrizo Vergara , Marc Kéry , Trevor Hefley

This study presents a semi-nonparametric Latent Class Choice Model (LCCM) with a flexible class membership component. The proposed model formulates the latent classes using mixture models as an alternative approach to the traditional random…

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

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

Crime has been previously explained by social characteristics of the residential population and, as stipulated by crime pattern theory, might also be linked to human movements of non-residential visitors. Yet a full empirical validation of…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-04-20 Cristina Kadar , Stefan Feuerriegel , Anastasios Noulas , Cecilia Mascolo

Human mobility is investigated using a continuum approach that allows to calculate the probability to observe a trip to anyarbitrary region, and the fluxes between any two regions. The considered description offers a general and unified…

Physics and Society · Physics 2013-04-02 Filippo Simini , Amos Maritan , Zoltán Néda

Population dynamics of individuals undergoing birth and death and diffusing by short or long ranged twodimensional spatial excursions (Gaussian jumps or L\'{e}vy flights) is studied. Competitive interactions are considered in a global case,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-10-25 E. Heinsalu , E. Hernandez-Garcia , C. Lopez

Individual mobility is driven by demand for activities with diverse spatiotemporal patterns, but existing methods for mobility prediction often overlook the underlying activity patterns. To address this issue, this study develops an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-12 Baichuan Mo , Zhan Zhao , Haris N. Koutsopoulos , Jinhua Zhao

Modeling relations between individuals is a classical question in social sciences, ecology, etc. In order to uncover a latent structure in the data, a popular approach consists in clustering individuals according to the observed patterns of…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-02-28 Avner Bar-Hen , Pierre Barbillon , Sophie Donnet

Predicting human mobility is crucial for urban planning, traffic control, and emergency response. Mobility behaviors can be categorized into individual and collective, and these behaviors are recorded by diverse mobility data, such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Qingyue Long , Yuan Yuan , Yong Li

Mimicking human ability to forecast future positions or interpret complex interactions in urban scenarios, such as streets, shopping malls or squares, is essential to develop socially compliant robots or self-driving cars. Autonomous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-20 Matteo Lisotto , Pasquale Coscia , Lamberto Ballan

Pedestrian trajectory prediction is essential for collision avoidance in autonomous driving and robot navigation. However, predicting a pedestrian's trajectory in crowded environments is non-trivial as it is influenced by other pedestrians'…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-15 Sirin Haddad , Meiqing Wu , He Wei , Siew Kei Lam

Predicting human mobility flows at different spatial scales is challenged by the heterogeneity of individual trajectories and the multi-scale nature of transportation networks. As vast amounts of digital traces of human behaviour become…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-02-08 M. G. Beiró , A. Panisson , M. Tizzoni , C. Cattuto

Spatiotemporal data consisting of timestamps, GPS coordinates, and IDs occurs in many settings. Modeling approaches for this type of data must address challenges in terms of sensor noise, uneven sampling rates, and non-persistent IDs. In…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-10-10 Pranay Pherwani , Nicholas Hass , Anna K. Yanchenko

We investigate a model for spatial epidemics explicitly taking into account bi-directional movements between base and destination locations on individual mobility networks. We provide a systematic analysis of generic dynamical features of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2012-03-07 Vitaly Belik , Theo Geisel , Dirk Brockmann

Statistical agent-based models for crime have shown that repeat victimization can lead to predictable crime hotspots (see e.g. Short et al., Math. Models Methods Appl., 2008), then a recent study in one space dimension (Chaturapruek et al.,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-05-10 Chaohao Pan , Bo Li , Chuntian Wang , Yuqi Zhang , Nathan Geldner , Li Wang , Andrea Bertozzi