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Ubiquitous mobile devices are generating vast amounts of location-based service data that reveal how individuals navigate and utilize urban spaces in detail. In this study, we utilize these extensive, unlabeled sequences of user…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Xinhua Wu , Haoyu He , Yanchao Wang , Qi Wang

Human mobility is a fundamental aspect of social behavior, with broad applications in transportation, urban planning, and epidemic modeling. Represented by the gravity model and the radiation model, established analytical models for…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-05-07 Hao Guo , Weiyu Zhang , Junjie Yang , Yuanqiao Hou , Lei Dong , Yu Liu

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

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

This study identifies the limitations and underlying characteristics of urban mobility networks that influence the performance of the gravity model. The gravity model is a widely-used approach for estimating and predicting population flows…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-09-10 Chiawei Hsu , Chao Fan , Ali Mostafavi

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

Mobility datasets are fundamental for evaluating algorithms pertaining to geographic information systems and facilitating experimental reproducibility. But privacy implications restrict sharing such datasets, as even aggregated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-03 Vaibhav Kulkarni , Natasa Tagasovska , Thibault Vatter , Benoit Garbinato

The spatial heterogeneity of cities -- the uneven distribution of population and activities -- is fundamental to urban dynamics and related to critical issues such as infrastructure overload, housing affordability, and social inequality.…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-11-14 Hao Huang , Yuming Lin , Jiazhen Liu

To study the propagation of information from individual to individual, we need mobility datasets. Existing datasets are not satisfactory because they are too small, inaccurate or target a homogeneous subset of population. To draw valid…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-08-04 Antoine Huchet , Jean-Loup Guillaume , Yacine Ghamri-Doudane

Generative models have shown promising results in capturing human mobility characteristics and generating synthetic trajectories. However, it remains challenging to ensure that the generated geospatial mobility data is semantically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Ammar Haydari , Dongjie Chen , Zhengfeng Lai , Michael Zhang , Chen-Nee Chuah

Learning the embeddings for urban regions from human mobility data can reveal the functionality of regions, and then enables the correlated but distinct tasks such as crime prediction. Human mobility data contains rich but abundant…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Shangbin Wu , Xu Yan , Xiaoliang Fan , Shirui Pan , Shichao Zhu , Chuanpan Zheng , Ming Cheng , Cheng Wang

Traffic prediction is one of the key elements to ensure the safety and convenience of citizens. Existing traffic prediction models primarily focus on deep learning architectures to capture spatial and temporal correlation. They often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Sumin Han , Youngjun Park , Minji Lee , Jisun An , Dongman Lee

This article investigates the use of a model-based neural-network for the traffic reconstruction problem using noisy measurements coming from probe vehicles. The traffic state is assumed to be the density only, modeled by a partial…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-11-18 John Liu , Matthieu Barreau , Mladen Cicic , Karl H. Johansson

Human Mobility has attracted attentions from different fields of studies such as epidemic modeling, traffic engineering, traffic prediction and urban planning. In this survey we review major characteristics of human mobility studies…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-07-04 Fereshteh Asgari , Vincent Gauthier , Monique Becker

Human mobility regularity is crucial for understanding urban dynamics and informing decision-making processes. This study first quantifies the periodicity in complex human mobility data as a sparse identification of dominant positive…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-09-15 Xinyu Chen , Qi Wang , Yunhan Zheng , Nina Cao , HanQin Cai , Jinhua Zhao

Mobility cross spatial units represents the embodiment of how people manage activities between locations along temporal sequences. Spatiotemporal pattern nevertheless interacts with the socioeconomic characteristics of respected origin…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-03-03 Rafiazka Millanida Hilman

Urban development is shaped by historical, geographical, and economic factors, presenting challenges for planners in understanding urban form. This study models commute flows across multiple U.S. cities, uncovering consistent patterns in…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-11-11 Margarita Mishina , Mingyi He , Venu Garikapati , Stanislav Sobolevsky

We propose an efficient method for reconstructing traffic density with low penetration rate of probe vehicles. Specifically, we rely on measuring only the initial and final positions of a small number of cars which are generated using…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-02-13 Nail Baloul , Amaury Hayat , Thibault Liard , Pierre Lissy

Understanding the link between urban planning and commuting flows is crucial for guiding urban development and policymaking. This research, bridging computer science and urban studies, addresses the challenge of integrating these fields…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-26 Yan Luo , Zhuoyue Wan , Yuzhong Chen , Gengchen Mai , Fu-lai Chung , Kent Larson

We empirically demonstrate that a transformer pre-trained on country-scale unlabeled human mobility data learns embeddings capable, through fine-tuning, of developing a deep understanding of the target geography and its corresponding…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-12-13 Alameen Najjar