arXiv Machine Learning

SeoulMMOD: A Large-Scale Multimodal Origin-Destination Flow Benchmark

SeoulMMOD is a new large‑scale public benchmark that provides three years of hourly origin‑destination flow data for six urban travel modes across 25 districts and 426 sub‑districts in Seoul, along with travel‑time, travel‑distance, calendar, rainfall, and point‑of‑interest signals. The dataset enables city‑wide multimodal mobility analysis and supports the evaluation of 14 forecasting baselines under a common protocol. The benchmark reveals that models effective at the district level may not scale to sub‑district forecasting and that naive joint multi‑mode training does not always improve accuracy.

arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 31

Learning to Transfer Across Modes: Towards Unified Urban Mobility Forecasting

The paper introduces TransMod, a unified framework for forecasting urban mobility demand across multiple transportation modes. It creates a shared zone-level spatial representation to align systems with different spatial granularities, reducing structural mismatch and distributional shift. TransMod then learns transferable spatio-temporal patterns from data-rich source modes and adapts them to data-scarce target modes, improving forecasting performance when target data is limited.

By Yixuan Zhao, Man Luo
arXiv AI
Sep 10

Synergistic Fusion of Topological Structure and Temporal Semantics of Mobility for Urban Region Embedding

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 Machine Learning
Aug 11

TS-Mob: Social and Geographical-Aware Time Series Foundation-Model Framework for Human Mobility Prediction

arXiv:2507. 00945v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Short-term forecasting of aggregated human mobility flows supports urban planning, intelligent transportation systems, and emergency response, yet existing models often require substantial mobility history and learn spatial structure implicitly through grids or graphs.

By Massimiliano Luca, Ciro Beneduce, Bruno Lepri
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 10

Inferring Urban Mobility Interactions from Aggregated Dynamics

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 AI
Oct 1

Spatio-Temporal Partial Sensing Forecast for Long-term Traffic

The paper introduces the Spatio-temporal Long-term Partial sensing Forecast model (SLPF) for predicting long-term traffic when sensors are only available at some locations. It tackles challenges such as unknown data distribution at unsensed sites, complex spatio-temporal correlations, and noise by employing a rank-based embedding, a spatial transfer matrix, and a multi-step training process. Experiments on real-world datasets show that SLPF outperforms existing methods.

By Zibo Liu, Zhe Jiang, Zelin Xu, Tingsong Xiao, Zhengkun Xiao, Yupu zhang, Haibo Wang, Shigang Chen