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
The paper introduces the Activity Chain Encoder (ACE), a self‑supervised deep learning model that transforms passively collected mobile phone location data into daily activity representations. ACE integrates pre‑trained urban embeddings, visit timing, and duration, using a Transformer to capture the sequential structure of stays, and is trained via masked activity modelling and contrastive learning without explicit activity labels. The resulting user‑level profiles are clustered and interpreted with temporal‑functional patterns and Census demographics, revealing six distinct weekday activity‑pattern groups in London that differ in daily rhythms, urban contexts, and demographic characteristics.
By Xinglei Wang, Junyuan Liu, Guangsheng Dong, Zichao Zeng, Stephen Law, James Haworth, Tao Cheng
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:2607. 16168v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Residential short-term load forecasting (STLF) is challenging because household demand is heterogeneous, temporally variable, and shaped by diverse behavioural routines.
By Ramin Soleimani, Andrea Visentin, Dirk Pesch
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:2608. 00815v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The 15-minute city promotes access to everyday services within a short walk or bicycle ride, but its relationship with observed mobility remains difficult to quantify.
By Andr\'as J. Moln\'aar, Csaba I. Sidl\'o, Rita R\'onai, Domonkos R\'ozsay
arXiv:2604. 16084v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Traffic forecasting is a challenging spatio-temporal modeling task and a critical component of urban transportation management.
By Weijiang Xiong, Robert Fonod, Nikolas Geroliminis
arXiv:2606. 31532v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Staff absenteeism imposes substantial operational costs in high-demand work environments such as healthcare, emergency services, meat processing, construction, and courier and delivery services, where proactive workforce planning depends on reliable individual-level absence prediction.
By Kwong Ho Li, Matthew Roughan, Wathsala Karunarathne
arXiv:2606. 03358v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Smart meter data can reveal sensitive socio-demographic characteristics of households, raising privacy concerns.
By Dejan Radovanovic, Maximilian Schirl, Andreas Unterweger, G\"unther Eibl
The paper demonstrates that fine‑tuning large language models (LLMs) on local tourist trajectory data can predict visitor movements under varying conditions. Using 566 trajectories from Wakayama Castle Park, Japan, the authors fine‑tuned Llama‑3.1‑8B, achieving 49.1% accuracy for next point‑of‑interest predictions and maintaining strong performance even on undersampled scenarios such as rainy days. This shows that LLMs can serve as high‑fidelity, context‑aware behavior models for tourist prediction and enable counterfactual analysis of mobility interventions.
By Tatsuya Amano, Hirozumi Yamaguchi
arXiv:2602. 01910v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Smart-home sensor-based behavioral monitoring holds significant potential for healthcare, independent living, and early detection of functional or cognitive changes.
By Michele Fiori, Gabriele Civitarese, Flora D. Salim, Claudio Bettini
arXiv:2609.13878v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Spatio-temporal traffic data are central to intelligent transportation systems, yet their heterogeneity poses significant challenges for large-scale mo...
By Zhouyang Liu, Jindong Han, Hao Wang, Xinyue Liu, Hui Gao, Dongsheng Li, Hao Liu