HD-GEN: A High-Performance Software System for Human Mobility Data Generation Based on Patterns of Life

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Hauptverfasser: Amiri, Hossein, Kim, Joon-Seok, Kavak, Hamdi, Crooks, Andrew, Pfoser, Dieter, Wenk, Carola, Züfle, Andreas
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author Amiri, Hossein
Kim, Joon-Seok
Kavak, Hamdi
Crooks, Andrew
Pfoser, Dieter
Wenk, Carola
Züfle, Andreas
author_facet Amiri, Hossein
Kim, Joon-Seok
Kavak, Hamdi
Crooks, Andrew
Pfoser, Dieter
Wenk, Carola
Züfle, Andreas
contents Understanding individual-level human mobility is critical for a wide range of applications. As such, real-world trajectory datasets provide valuable insights into actual movement behaviors and patterns of life but are often constrained by data sparsity and participant bias. Synthetic data, by contrast, offers scalability and flexibility but frequently lacks realism. To address this gap, we introduce a comprehensive software pipeline for, generating, calibrating, processing, and visualizing large-scale individual-level human mobility datasets that combine the realism of empirical data with the control and extensibility of Patterns-of-Life simulations. Our system consists of four integrated components. (1) a data generation engine which constructs geographically grounded simulations using OpenStreetMap data to produce diverse mobility logs. (2) a genetic algorithm-based calibration module that fine-tunes simulation parameters to align with real-world mobility characteristics, such as daily trip counts and radius of gyration, enabling realistic behavioral modeling. (3) a data processing suite which transforms raw simulation logs into structured formats suitable for downstream applications, including model training and benchmarking, and (4) a visualization module that extracts key mobility patterns and insights from the processed datasets and presents them through intuitive visual analytics for improved interpretability.
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spellingShingle HD-GEN: A High-Performance Software System for Human Mobility Data Generation Based on Patterns of Life
Amiri, Hossein
Kim, Joon-Seok
Kavak, Hamdi
Crooks, Andrew
Pfoser, Dieter
Wenk, Carola
Züfle, Andreas
Software Engineering
Understanding individual-level human mobility is critical for a wide range of applications. As such, real-world trajectory datasets provide valuable insights into actual movement behaviors and patterns of life but are often constrained by data sparsity and participant bias. Synthetic data, by contrast, offers scalability and flexibility but frequently lacks realism. To address this gap, we introduce a comprehensive software pipeline for, generating, calibrating, processing, and visualizing large-scale individual-level human mobility datasets that combine the realism of empirical data with the control and extensibility of Patterns-of-Life simulations. Our system consists of four integrated components. (1) a data generation engine which constructs geographically grounded simulations using OpenStreetMap data to produce diverse mobility logs. (2) a genetic algorithm-based calibration module that fine-tunes simulation parameters to align with real-world mobility characteristics, such as daily trip counts and radius of gyration, enabling realistic behavioral modeling. (3) a data processing suite which transforms raw simulation logs into structured formats suitable for downstream applications, including model training and benchmarking, and (4) a visualization module that extracts key mobility patterns and insights from the processed datasets and presents them through intuitive visual analytics for improved interpretability.
title HD-GEN: A High-Performance Software System for Human Mobility Data Generation Based on Patterns of Life
topic Software Engineering
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.01219