Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK)（布鲁诺·凯斯勒基金会（FBK））；Free University of Bolzano（博尔扎诺自由大学）；Amazon Alexa（亚马逊Alexa）；Institute of Information Science and Technologies, National Research Council (ISTI-CNR)（国家研究委员会信息科学与技术研究所（ISTI-CNR））
Massimiliano Luca, Gianni Barlacchi, Bruno Lepri, Luca Pappalardo
The study of human mobility is crucial due to its impact on several aspects of our society, such as disease spreading, urban planning, well-being, pollution, and more. The proliferation of digital mobility data, such as phone records, GPS traces, and social media posts, combined with the predictive power of artificial intelligence, triggered the application of deep learning to human mobility. Existing surveys focus on single tasks, data sources, mechanistic or traditional machine learning approaches, while a comprehensive description of deep learning solutions is missing. This survey provides a taxonomy of mobility tasks, a discussion on the challenges related to each task and how deep learning may overcome the limitations of traditional models, a description of the most relevant solutions to the mobility tasks described above and the relevant challenges for the future. Our survey is a guide to the leading deep learning solutions to next-location prediction, crowd flow prediction, trajectory generation, and flow generation. At the same time, it helps deep learning scientists and practitioners understand the fundamental concepts and the open challenges of the study of human mobility.
Spatiotemporal-Augmented Graph Neural Networks for Human Mobility Simulation
College of Computer Science, Zhejiang University（浙江大学计算机学院）；College of Software Technology, Zhejiang University（浙江大学软件技术学院）；State Key Laboratory of Blockchain and Security, Zhejiang University（浙江大学区块链与安全国家重点实验室）
This is a brief survey of the research performed by Grandata Labs in collaboration with numerous academic groups around the world on the topic of human mobility. A driving theme in these projects is to use and improve Data Science techniques to understand mobility, as it can be observed through the lens of mobile phone datasets. We describe applications of mobility analyses for urban planning, prediction of data traffic usage, building delay tolerant networks, generating epidemiologic risk maps and measuring the predictability of human mobility.
Mobility-LLM: Learning Visiting Intentions and Travel Preferences from Human Mobility Data with Large Language Models
School of Computer Science and Technology, Beijing Jiaotong University（北京交通大学计算机与信息技术学院）；Beijing Key Laboratory of Traffic Data Analysis and Mining（北京市交通数据分析与挖掘重点实验室）；Department of Computer Science, Aalborg University（奥尔堡大学计算机系）
Understanding human mobility is essential for the development of smart cities and social behavior research. Human mobility models may be used in numerous applications, including pandemic control, urban planning, and traffic management. The existing models' accuracy in predicting users' mobility patterns is less than 25%. The low accuracy may be justified by the flexible nature of the human movement. Indeed, humans are not rigid in their daily movement. In addition, the rigid mobility models may result in missing the hidden regularities in users' records. Thus, we propose a novel perspective to…
Dalian University of Technology（大连理工大学）；Zhejiang University of Technology（浙江工业大学）；Federation University Australia（澳大利亚联邦大学）；Deakin University（迪肯大学）
Traffic flow prediction is an integral part of an intelligent transportation system and thus fundamental for various traffic-related applications. Buses are an indispensable way of moving for urban residents with fixed routes and schedules, which leads to latent travel regularity. However, human mobility patterns, specifically the complex relationships between bus passengers, are deeply hidden in this fixed mobility mode. Although many models exist to predict traffic flow, human mobility patterns have not been well explored in this regard. To reduce this research gap and learn human mobility k…
Learning Universal Human Mobility Patterns with a Foundation Model for Cross-domain Data Fusion
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles（加州大学洛杉矶分校土木与环境工程系）；Novateur Research Solutions（Novateur研究解决方案）；Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Berkeley（加州大学伯克利分校土木与环境工程系）
University of Tours（图尔大学）；LABISEN（LABISEN实验室）；Yncrea Ouest（西部伊克雷亚集团）
Various institutes produce large semantic datasets containing information regarding daily activities and human mobility. The analysis and understanding of such data are crucial for urban planning, socio-psychology, political sciences, and epidemiology. However, none of the typical data mining processes have been customized for the thorough analysis of semantic mobility sequences to translate data into understandable behaviors. Based on an extended literature review, we propose a novel methodological pipeline called simba (Semantic Indicators for Mobility and Behavior Analysis), for mining and …
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities（明尼苏达大学双城分校）；University of Southern California（南加州大学）
Human mobility clustering is an important problem for understanding human mobility behaviors (e.g., work and school commutes). Existing methods typically contain two steps: choosing or learning a mobility representation and applying a clustering algorithm to the representation. However, these methods rely on strict visiting orders in trajectories and cannot take advantage of multiple types of mobility representations. This paper proposes a novel mobility clustering method for mobility behavior detection. First, the proposed method contains a permutation-equivalent operation to handle sub-traje…
Human migration is a type of human mobility, where a trip involves a person moving with the intention of changing their home location. Predicting human migration as accurately as possible is important in city planning applications, international trade, spread of infectious diseases, conservation planning, and public policy development. Traditional human mobility models, such as gravity models or the more recent radiation model, predict human mobility flows based on population and distance features only. These models have been validated on commuting flows, a different type of human mobility, an…
Predicting Human Mobility during Extreme Events via LLM-Enhanced Cross-City Learning
Department of Electronic Engineering, Beijing National Research Center for Information Science and Technology (BNRist), Tsinghua University（清华大学电子工程系、北京信息科学与技术国家研究中心）
Human mobility forecasting in a city is of utmost importance to transportation and public safety, but with the process of urbanization and the generation of big data, intensive computing and determination of mobility pattern have become challenging. This study focuses on how to improve the accuracy and efficiency of predicting citywide human mobility via a simpler solution. A spatio-temporal mobility event prediction framework based on a single fully-convolutional residual network (STAR) is proposed. STAR is a highly simple, general and effective method for learning a single tensor representin…
MobilityGPT: Enhanced Human Mobility Modeling with a GPT model
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, Davis（电子与计算机工程系，加州大学戴维斯分校）；Apple Inc.（苹果公司）；Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Davis（土木与环境工程系，加州大学戴维斯分校）
Extracting significant places or places of interest (POIs) using individuals' spatio-temporal data is of fundamental importance for human mobility analysis. Classical clustering methods have been used in prior work for detecting POIs, but without considering temporal constraints. Usually, the involved parameters for clustering are difficult to determine, e.g., the optimal cluster number in hierarchical clustering. Currently, researchers either choose heuristic values or use spatial distance-based optimization to determine an appropriate parameter set. We argue that existing research does not o…
University of Pisa（比萨大学）；Institute of Information Sciences and Technologies (ISTI), CNR（意大利国家研究委员会信息科学与技术研究所）；University of Bristol（布里斯托大学）
The generation of realistic spatio-temporal trajectories of human mobility is of fundamental importance in a wide range of applications, such as the developing of protocols for mobile ad-hoc networks or what-if analysis in urban ecosystems. Current generative algorithms fail in accurately reproducing the individuals' recurrent schedules and at the same time in accounting for the possibility that individuals may break the routine during periods of variable duration. In this article we present DITRAS (DIary-based TRAjectory Simulator), a framework to simulate the spatio-temporal patterns of huma…
With the onset of COVID-19 and the resulting shelter in place guidelines combined with remote working practices, human mobility in 2020 has been dramatically impacted. Existing studies typically examine whether mobility in specific localities increases or decreases at specific points in time and relate these changes to certain pandemic and policy events. In this paper, we study mobility change in the US through a five-step process using mobility footprint data. (Step 1) Propose the delta Time Spent in Public Places (Delta-TSPP) as a measure to quantify daily changes in mobility for each US cou…
Imperial College London（帝国理工学院）；University of Washington（华盛顿大学）
As various mobile devices and location-based services are increasingly developed in different smart city scenarios and applications, many unexpected privacy leakages have arisen due to geolocated data collection and sharing. While these geolocated data could provide a rich understanding of human mobility patterns and address various societal research questions, privacy concerns for users' sensitive information have limited their utilization. In this paper, we design and implement a novel LSTM-based adversarial mechanism with representation learning to attain a privacy-preserving feature repres…
University of Colorado at Boulder（科罗拉多大学博尔德分校）；University of Maryland, College Park（马里兰大学帕克分校）；IUPUI（印第安纳大学与普渡大学印第安纳波利斯联合分校）
Detecting anomalous activity in human mobility data has a number of applications including road hazard sensing, telematic based insurance, and fraud detection in taxi services and ride sharing. In this paper we address two challenges that arise in the study of anomalous human trajectories: 1) a lack of ground truth data on what defines an anomaly and 2) the dependence of existing methods on significant pre-processing and feature engineering. While generative adversarial networks seem like a natural fit for addressing these challenges, we find that existing GAN based anomaly detection algorithm…
Reconstructing Human Mobility Pattern: A Semi-Supervised Approach for Cross-Dataset Transfer Learning
University of California Los Angeles（加利福尼亚大学洛杉矶分校）；Texas A&M University（德克萨斯农工大学）；University of Louisville（路易斯维尔大学）；University of California Berkeley（加利福尼亚大学伯克利分校）；Novateur Research Solutions（诺瓦特研究解决方案公司）
