Data-Driven Discovery of Mobility Periodicity for Understanding Urban Systems
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| author | Chen, Xinyu Wang, Qi Zheng, Yunhan Cao, Nina Cai, HanQin Zhao, Jinhua |
| author_facet | Chen, Xinyu Wang, Qi Zheng, Yunhan Cao, Nina Cai, HanQin Zhao, Jinhua |
| contents | Human mobility regularity is crucial for understanding urban dynamics and informing decision-making processes. This study first quantifies the periodicity in complex human mobility data as a sparse identification of dominant positive auto-correlations in time series autoregression and then discovers periodic patterns. We apply the framework to large-scale metro passenger flow data in Hangzhou, China and multi-modal mobility data in New York City and Chicago, USA, revealing the interpretable weekly periodicity across different spatial locations over past several years. The analysis of ridesharing data from 2019 to 2024 demonstrates the disruptive impact of the pandemic on mobility regularity and the subsequent recovery trends. In 2024, the periodic mobility patterns of ridesharing, taxi, subway, and bikesharing in Manhattan uncover the regularity and variability of these travel modes. Our findings highlight the potential of interpretable machine learning to discover spatiotemporal mobility patterns and offer a valuable tool for understanding urban systems. |
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| spellingShingle | Data-Driven Discovery of Mobility Periodicity for Understanding Urban Systems Chen, Xinyu Wang, Qi Zheng, Yunhan Cao, Nina Cai, HanQin Zhao, Jinhua Social and Information Networks Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning Human mobility regularity is crucial for understanding urban dynamics and informing decision-making processes. This study first quantifies the periodicity in complex human mobility data as a sparse identification of dominant positive auto-correlations in time series autoregression and then discovers periodic patterns. We apply the framework to large-scale metro passenger flow data in Hangzhou, China and multi-modal mobility data in New York City and Chicago, USA, revealing the interpretable weekly periodicity across different spatial locations over past several years. The analysis of ridesharing data from 2019 to 2024 demonstrates the disruptive impact of the pandemic on mobility regularity and the subsequent recovery trends. In 2024, the periodic mobility patterns of ridesharing, taxi, subway, and bikesharing in Manhattan uncover the regularity and variability of these travel modes. Our findings highlight the potential of interpretable machine learning to discover spatiotemporal mobility patterns and offer a valuable tool for understanding urban systems. |
| title | Data-Driven Discovery of Mobility Periodicity for Understanding Urban Systems |
| topic | Social and Information Networks Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03747 |