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Spatiotemporal neural networks have shown great promise in urban scenarios by effectively capturing temporal and spatial correlations. However, urban environments are constantly evolving, and current model evaluations are often limited to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Hongjun Wang , Jiyuan Chen , Tong Pan , Zheng Dong , Lingyu Zhang , Renhe Jiang , Xuan Song

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 considers the dispatching of large-scale real-time ride-sharing systems to address congestion issues faced by many cities. The goal is to serve all customers (service guarantees) with a small number of vehicles while minimizing…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-03-25 Connor Riley , Pascal Van Hentenryck , Enpeng Yuan

Transportation networks serve as windows into the complex world of urban systems. By properly characterizing a road network, we can therefore better understand its encompassing urban system. This study offers a geometrical approach towards…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-07-15 Farideddin Peiravian , Sybil Derrible

Origin-Destination (OD) flow matrices are critical for urban mobility analysis, supporting traffic forecasting, infrastructure planning, and policy design. Existing methods face two key limitations: (1) reliance on costly auxiliary features…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Xiangxu Wang , Tianhong Zhao , Wei Tu , Bowen Zhang , Guanzhou Chen , Jinzhou Cao

We present a novel data-driven approach of learning traffic flow patterns of a transportation network given that many instances of origin to destination (OD) travel demand and link flows of the network are available. Instead of estimating…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-23 Rezaur Rahman , Samiul Hasan

The analysis of GPS trajectories is a well-studied problem in Urban Computing and has been used to track people. Analyzing people mobility and identifying the transportation mode used by them is essential for cities that want to reduce…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-20 I. Cardoso-Pereira , J. B. Borges , P. H. Barros , A. F. Loureiro , O. A. Rosso , H. S. Ramos

Climate change mitigation in urban mobility requires policies reconfiguring urban form to increase accessibility and facilitate low-carbon modes of transport. However, current policy research has insufficiently assessed urban form effects…

The increased availability of large-scale trajectory data around the world provides rich information for the study of urban dynamics. For example, New York City Taxi Limousine Commission regularly releases source-destination information…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-12-31 Hongjian Wang , Zhenhui Li , Yu-Hsuan Kuo , Dan Kifer

Fine resolution estimates of demographic and socioeconomic attributes are crucial for planning and policy development. While several efforts have been made to produce fine-scale gridded population estimates, socioeconomic features are…

Understanding and predicting mobility dynamics in transportation networks is critical for infrastructure planning, resilience analysis, and traffic management. Traditional graph-based models typically assume memoryless movement, limiting…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Chen Zhang , Jürgen Hackl

Accurate prediction of trips between zones is critical for transportation planning, as it supports resource allocation and infrastructure development across various modes of transport. Although the gravity model has been widely used due to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Kamal Acharya , Mehul Lad , Liang Sun , Houbing Song

The traffic assignment problem is essential for traffic flow analysis, traditionally solved using mathematical programs under the Equilibrium principle. These methods become computationally prohibitive for large-scale networks due to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Mostafa Ameli , Sulthana Shams , Van Anh Le , Alexander Skabardonis

This paper presents a novel method for transforming large-scale historical expressway route search records into a three-dimensional (3D) Origin-Destination (OD) map, enabling data compression, efficient spatiotemporal sampling and…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Hangli Ge , Dizhi Huang , Xiaojie Yang , Lifeng Lin , Kazuma Hatano , Takeshi Kawasaki , Noboru Koshizuka

Assessing the resilience of a road network is instrumental to improve existing infrastructures and design new ones. Here we apply the optimal path crack model (OPC) to investigate the mobility of road networks and propose a new proxy for…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-11-04 H. A. Carmona , A. W. T. de Noronha , A. A. Moreira , N. A. M. Araujo , J. S. Andrade

With the rapid development of mobile-internet technologies, on-demand ride-sourcing services have become increasingly popular and largely reshaped the way people travel. Demand prediction is one of the most fundamental components in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-27 Jintao Ke , Xiaoran Qin , Hai Yang , Zhengfei Zheng , Zheng Zhu , Jieping Ye

The importance of understanding human mobility patterns has led many studies to examine their spatial-temporal scaling laws. These studies mainly reveal that human travel can be highly non-homogeneous with power-law scaling distributions of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-10-14 Xiaoyan Feng , Huijun Sun , Bnaya Gross , Jianjun Wu , Daqing Li , Xin Yang , Dong Zhou , Ziyou Gao , Shlomo Havlin

Urban mobility models are essential tools for understanding and forecasting how people and goods move within cities, which is vital for transportation planning. The spatial scale at which urban mobility is analysed is a crucial determinant…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-03-06 Rakhi Manohar Mepparambath , Hoai Nguyen Huynh

Optimal Transport (OT) has established itself as a robust framework for quantifying differences between distributions, with applications that span fields such as machine learning, data science, and computer vision. This paper offers a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Sina Moradi

Discovering patterns and detecting anomalies in individual travel behavior is a crucial problem in both research and practice. In this paper, we address this problem by building a probabilistic framework to model individual spatiotemporal…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Lijun Sun , Xinyu Chen , Zhaocheng He , Luis F. Miranda-Moreno