arXiv:2608. 14570v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Understanding human mobility is critical for a wide range of urban applications, including traffic management, epidemic control, and urban planning.
By Wen Ye, Muyan Weng, Chuizheng Meng, Hao Niu, Yizhou Zhang, Yan Liu
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: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
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
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: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
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
arXiv:2607. 07844v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While closed-loop motion planners trained on large-scale, object-level datasets, e.
By Alessandro Canevaro, Hang Yu, Julian Schmidt, Peizheng Li, Silvan Lindner, Wilhelm Stork, Georg Martius, Julian Jordan
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:2606. 09086v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Dynamic origin-destination (OD) flow generation seeks to synthesize realistic mobility dynamics from temporal context alone, without relying on historical OD observations.
By Jie Zhao, Xianqi Dai, Jie Feng, Huandong Wang, Yong Li
arXiv:2606. 01046v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The development of Large Language Models (LLMs) has significantly improved travel planning applications, yet evaluating such models is limited by existing benchmarks' limitations: 1) overemphasis on constraint compliance, neglecting multi-dimensional qualities like spatio-temporal cost; 2) datasets lacking real-world authenticity and coverage in key areas (e.
By Weiyi Chen, Shuaixiong Wang, Ziyun Gao, Kaichun Hu, Wangze Ni, Shimin Di, Chen Jason Zhang, Lei Chen
arXiv:2606. 10314v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Although the study of human trajectory anomalies is critical for advancing spatial data mining, empirical research remains severely hindered by a pervasive lack of ground-truth datasets.
By Yueyang Liu, Joon-Seok Kim, Andreas Z\"ufle