Urban Mobility Data Mining and Big Data Analysis
A special issue of Urban Science (ISSN 2413-8851).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 September 2026 | Viewed by 22
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Urban mobility has become one of the defining challenges of contemporary cities, shaped by rapid urbanization, technological innovation, and rising sustainability imperatives. The advent of large‐scale mobility datasets—collected through GPS devices, mobile phones, smart cards, connected vehicles, and urban sensors—has opened unprecedented opportunities for understanding and improving the way people and goods move through cities. At the same time, the complexity, heterogeneity, and scale of these datasets demand advanced methods of data mining and big data analytics.
We invite contributions that explore a wide range of topics, including, but not limited to, the following:
- Integration of heterogeneous data sources: GPS, mobile phone traces, smart cards, vehicle sensors, IoT devices, social media, etc.;
- Measuring and understanding human mobility with mobile big data;
- Mobility behaviour, mode choice, demand forecasting, and multimodal transport systems;
- Trajectory data mining: map‐matching, clustering, motif and sequential pattern mining, anomaly detection, next-location prediction;
- Spatial and transport planning, urban governance, and smart cities;
- Socio-economic traits of mobility (economic inequalities, gender gaps, transport poverty, etc.);
- Urban sustainability and liveability;
- Data privacy in mobility data, surveillance, and ethics;
- Real-world case studies showing how data-driven decision-making can inform policy, planning, infrastructure design, or operational interventions.
Dr. Gergő Pintér
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- urban mobility
- urban planning
- livable cities
- public transport
- spatial analysis
- accessibility
- data fusion
- mode choice
- trajectory data mining
- smart cities
- spatial equity
- mobility data
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