arXiv:2606. 13835v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: LLM-based generative agents are increasingly used in urban simulators, yet it remains unclear whether they reproduce empirically realistic human mobility patterns or merely generate plausible mobility narratives.
By Gustavo H. Santos, Aline Carneiro Viana, Thiago H. Silva
The paper demonstrates that real‑time urban mobility patterns can be reconstructed from aggregated area‑level counts, without tracking individuals. Using a physics‑informed, uncertainty‑aware framework, the authors infer future origin‑destination flows across twelve datasets from the U.S. and China, achieving accuracy comparable to models that use historical OD matrices. Probabilistic modeling corrects underestimation of sparse corridors, and architectures that preserve spatial heterogeneity before reconstructing pairwise interactions yield more faithful interaction estimates.
By Yi Wang, Jing Li, Jinliang Deng, Zhenghong Wang, Yizhi Zhang, Fan Zhang, Ivor W. Tsang, Yu Liu
arXiv:2607. 08357v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Human mobility data are essential for transportation optimization, urban planning, and resource allocation, yet real-world mobility data are costly to collect and difficult to share due to privacy concerns.
By Rongchao Xu, Lin Jiang, Dahai Yu, Ximiao Li, Taichi Liu, Desheng Zhang, Yuan Tian, Guang Wang
The paper introduces Mobility Stream-Structure Synergy (MoSS), a method that fuses two complementary views of mobility data—an hourly inflow/outflow Sequence view and a Structure view derived from zigzag persistence diagrams—to capture temporal dynamics and evolving regional connectivity. MoSS employs a synergy module that extracts higher‑order representations from the co‑occurrence of these views, moving beyond additive fusion. Experiments on New York City and Chicago demonstrate that MoSS outperforms existing baselines on three downstream tasks using only mobility data.
By Namwoo Kim, Jeeyun Chang, Kanghoon Lee, Yoonjin Yoon
arXiv:2505.11239v4 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Understanding human mobility through Point-of-Interest (POI) trajectory modeling is increasingly important for applications such as urban planning,...
By Wilson Wongso, Hao Xue, Flora D. Salim
The paper introduces Nomad, a transfer-and-ground framework for generating human mobility trajectories without target-city trajectory data. It learns relative transitions from source cities using POI attributes and then grounds these transitions onto a target city’s POI map via a behavior graph and exploration–return walk. Experiments across ten cities show Nomad improves trajectory fidelity and downstream utility by roughly 15% and 3% respectively over adaptation baselines.
By Yidi Wang, Yunhe Zhang, Bangchao Deng, Dingqi Yang, Pengyang Wang
arXiv:2607. 22655v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Estimating origin-destination (OD) flows under disruptive events is important for disaster response and urban resilience.
By Jie Zhao, Jie Feng, Can Rong, Zhihan Hou, Peng Lu, Yong Li
arXiv:2405. 17468v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Human mobility plays a crucial role in transportation, urban planning, and public health, but current approaches face important limitations.
By Xishun Liao, Qinhua Jiang, Brian Yueshuai He, Yifan Liu, Chenchen Kuai, Jiaqi Ma
arXiv:2606. 02287v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Urban trajectory generation is a fundamental task for transportation simulation, urban planning, and mobility analytics.
By Shibo Zhu, Xiaodan Shi, Dayin Chen, Yuntian Chen, Haoran Zhang, Tianhao Wu, Jinyue Yan
arXiv:2510. 06473v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Understanding and modeling human mobility is central to challenges in transport planning, sustainable urban design, and public health.
By Ye Hong, Yatao Zhang, Konrad Schindler, Martin Raubal
arXiv:2606. 12657v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Human mobility data is important for transportation, urban planning, and epidemic control, but large-scale trajectory collection is often costly and privacy-constrained, motivating realistic synthetic trajectory generation.
By Siyu Li, Toan Tran, Lingyi Zhao, Khurram Shafique, Li Xiong
arXiv:2510. 14819v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Trajectory representation learning (TRL) aims to encode raw trajectory data into low-dimensional embeddings for downstream tasks such as travel time estimation, mobility prediction, and trajectory similarity analysis.
By Ji Cao, Yu Wang, Tongya Zheng, Jie Song, Qinghong Guo, Zujie Ren, Canghong Jin, Gang Chen, Mingli Song