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  • Open Access
2,548 Views
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Spatial–Temporal Analysis of Vehicle Routing Problem from Online Car-Hailing Trajectories

  • Xuyu Feng,
  • Jianhua Yu,
  • Zihan Kan,
  • Lin Zhou,
  • Luliang Tang and
  • Xue Yang

With the advent of the information age and rapid population growth, the urban transportation environment is deteriorating. Travel-route planning is a key issue in modern sustainable transportation systems. When conducting route planning, identifying...

  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
7,599 Views
17 Pages

Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease with one of the highest reported incidences in China. The detection of the spatio-temporal distribution characteristics of TB is indicative of its prevention and control conditions. Trajectory similarity ana...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,375 Views
15 Pages

9 January 2023

The Crested Ibis (Nipponia nippon) is an endangered animal with an extremely high ecological, humanistic, and scientific value. However, this species still faces survival challenges, due to rapidly shrinking foraging grounds, the serious interference...

  • Article
  • Open Access
239 Views
19 Pages

Dynamic Topic Analysis and Visual Analytics for Trajectory Data: A Spatial Embedding Approach

  • Huarong Chen,
  • Yadong Wu,
  • Jing Lei,
  • Weixin Zhao,
  • Guijuan Wang,
  • Jing Liao and
  • Fupan Wang

11 December 2025

Analyzing the evolution of trajectory topics is fundamental to understanding urban mobility and human activity. Existing methods, however, often struggle to capture complex spatio-temporal semantics and are constrained by fixed time windows, which li...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,749 Views
10 Pages

Trajectories of 24-Hour Physical Activity Distribution and Relationship with Dyslipidemia

  • Xiaojing Wang,
  • Yongjun Wang,
  • Zechao Xu,
  • Xiang Guo,
  • Hongmei Mao,
  • Tingting Liu,
  • Weiyi Gong,
  • Zhaolong Gong and
  • Qin Zhuo

9 January 2023

The association between physical activity (PA) and dyslipidemia is well known, but the relationship between a temporal pattern of PA and dyslipidemia remain unknown. Here, we aimed to identify the intensity and temporal patterns of PA clustered by th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
4,883 Views
17 Pages

12 September 2019

Environmentally friendly shared transit systems have become ubiquitous at present. As a result, analyzing the ranges and tracts of human activities and gatherings based on bike share data is scientifically useful. This paper investigates the spatial...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,818 Views
15 Pages

Spatio-Temporal Behavior Analysis and Pheromone-Based Fusion Model for Big Trace Data

  • Luliang Tang,
  • Qianqian Zou,
  • Xia Zhang,
  • Chang Ren and
  • Qingquan Li

People leave traces of movements that might affect the behavior of others both online in cyberspace and offline in real space. Previous studies, however, have used only questionnaires, network data, or GPS data to study spatio-temporal behaviors, ign...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
7,499 Views
19 Pages

17 January 2014

To restore declining species, including Populus euphratica and other riparian communities, in the river ecosystem of the lower Tarim River, the ecological water conveyance project (EWCP), as a part of an integrated water resource management plan, was...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
7,377 Views
19 Pages

Analysis of High Temporal Resolution Land Use/Land Cover Trajectories

  • Jean-François Mas,
  • Rodrigo Nogueira de Vasconcelos and
  • Washington Franca-Rocha

6 February 2019

In this study, methods, originally developed to assess life course trajectories, are explored in order to evaluate land change through the analysis of sequences of land use/cover. Annual land cover maps which describe land use/land cover change for t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,032 Views
16 Pages

13 December 2020

The modeling of walking behavior and design of walk-friendly urban pathways have been of interest to many researchers over the past decades. One of the major issues in pedestrian modeling is path planning decision-making in a dynamic walking environm...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,249 Views
19 Pages

Exploring Spatial and Temporal Dynamics of Red Sea Air Quality through Multivariate Analysis, Trajectories, and Satellite Observations

  • Bijoy Mitra,
  • Al-Ekram Elahee Hridoy,
  • Khaled Mahmud,
  • Mohammed Sakib Uddin,
  • Abu Talha,
  • Nayan Das,
  • Sajib Kumar Nath,
  • Md Shafiullah,
  • Syed Masiur Rahman and
  • Muhammad Muhitur Rahman

18 January 2024

The Red Sea, a significant ecoregion and vital marine transportation route, has experienced a consistent rise in air pollution in recent years. Hence, it is imperative to assess the spatial and temporal distribution of air quality parameters across t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
455 Views
28 Pages

7 November 2025

Conventional cross-sectional analyses of biocapacity fail to capture the temporal dynamics and historical pathways that define a nation’s environmental profile, limiting our understanding of the drivers behind sustainability transitions. To add...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
9,891 Views
20 Pages

Analyzing sports like football is interesting not only for the sports team itself, but also for the public and the media. Both have recognized that using more detailed analyses of the teams’ behavior increases their attractiveness and also their perf...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,777 Views
19 Pages

Monitoring the driving styles of ride-hailing drivers is helpful for providing targeted training for drivers and improving the safety of the service. However, previous studies have lacked analyses of the temporal variation as well as spatial variatio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
783 Views
11 Pages

High-Resolution Analysis of Temporal Variation and Driving Factors of CO2 Concentration in Nanning City in Spring 2024

  • Jinghang Feng,
  • Xuemei Chen,
  • Huilin Liu,
  • Zhaoyu Mo,
  • Shiyang Yan,
  • Xiaoyu Peng,
  • Hongjiao Li,
  • Hao Li,
  • Hui Liao and
  • Jiahui Lu

12 April 2025

In this study, based on high-resolution online monitoring data of CO2 concentration in Nanning City in the spring of 2024, we analyzed the characteristics of diurnal and monthly changes of CO2 concentration in Nanning City and explored the influencin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
47 Citations
5,874 Views
19 Pages

2 September 2017

Clustering analysis is one of the most important issues in trajectory data mining. Trajectory clustering can be widely applied in the detection of hotspots, mobile pattern analysis, urban transportation control, and hurricane prediction, etc. To obta...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,827 Views
18 Pages

18 January 2021

Though forest ecosystems play a critical role in enhancing ecological, environmental, economic, and societal sustainability, on a global scale, their future outlooks are uncertain given the wide-ranging threats they are exposed to. The uniqueness of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,447 Views
22 Pages

The popularity of mobile locate-enabled devices and Location Based Service (LBS) generates massive spatio-temporal data every day. Due to the close relationship between behavior patterns and movement trajectory, trajectory data mining has been applie...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,246 Views
14 Pages

Study on the Pollution Characteristics and Sources of Ozone in Typical Loess Plateau City

  • Bin Li,
  • Zhuangzhi Zhou,
  • Zhigang Xue,
  • Peng Wei,
  • Yanjun Ren,
  • Liyuan Cao,
  • Xinyu Feng,
  • Qingchen Yao,
  • Jinghua Ma and
  • Peng Xu
  • + 1 author

Ground-level ozone is a secondary pollutant produced by photochemical reactions and it adversely affects plant and human health. Taiyuan City, a typical city on the loess plateau, is suffering from severe ozone pollution. We utilized the data from ei...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,065 Views
23 Pages

The interplay of specific weather conditions and human activity results due to haze. When the haze arrives, individuals will use microblogs to communicate their concerns and feelings. It will be easier for municipal administrators to alter public com...

  • Article
  • Open Access
417 Views
22 Pages

This study aims to analyze long-term gait recovery patterns in sub-acute post-stroke hemiplegic patients by applying end-to-end deep learning (DL)-based clustering to sagittal joint-angle trajectories throughout the gait cycle. To address the data sc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,499 Views
21 Pages

16 March 2025

The rapid development of vehicular networks has facilitated the extensive acquisition of vehicle trajectory data, which serve as a crucial cornerstone for a variety of intelligent transportation system (ITS) applications, such as traffic flow managem...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,021 Views
17 Pages

Visual Analysis Method for Traffic Trajectory with Dynamic Topic Movement Patterns Based on the Improved Markov Decision Process

  • Huarong Chen,
  • Yadong Wu,
  • Huaquan Tang,
  • Jing Lei,
  • Guijuan Wang,
  • Weixin Zhao,
  • Jing Liao,
  • Fupan Wang and
  • Zhong Wang

The visual analysis of trajectory topics is helpful for mining potential trajectory patterns, but the traditional visual analysis method ignores the evolution of the temporal coherence of the topic. In this paper, a novel visual analysis method for d...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,040 Views
22 Pages

The presence of abundant spatio-temporal information based on the location of mobile objects in publicly accessible GPS mobile devices makes it crucial to collect, analyze, and mine such information. Therefore, it is necessary to index a large volume...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,147 Views
16 Pages

The trajectory data of aircraft, ships, and so on, can be analyzed to obtain valuable information. Clustering is the basic technology of trajectory analysis, and the feature extraction process is one of the decisive factors for clustering performance...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,051 Views
24 Pages

In recent years, with the widespread use of location-aware handheld devices and the development of wireless networks, trajectory data have shown a trend of rapid growth in data volume and coverage, which has led to the prosperous development of locat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,123 Views
23 Pages

STRP-DBSCAN: A Parallel DBSCAN Algorithm Based on Spatial-Temporal Random Partitioning for Clustering Trajectory Data

  • Xiaoya An,
  • Ziming Wang,
  • Ding Wang,
  • Song Liu,
  • Cheng Jin,
  • Xinpeng Xu and
  • Jianjun Cao

10 October 2023

Trajectory clustering algorithms analyze the movement trajectory of the target objects to mine the potential movement trend, regularity, and behavioral patterns of the object. Therefore, the trajectory clustering algorithm has a wide range of applica...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
6,177 Views
22 Pages

A Spatio-Temporal Entropy-based Framework for the Detection of Trajectories Similarity

  • Amin Hosseinpoor Milaghardan,
  • Rahim Ali Abbaspour and
  • Christophe Claramunt

23 June 2018

The rapid proliferation of sensors and big data repositories offer many new opportunities for data science. Among many application domains, the analysis of large trajectory datasets generated from people’s movements at the city scale is one of the mo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,222 Views
16 Pages

Trajectory big data is suitable for distributed storage retrieval due to its fast update speed and huge data volume, but currently there are problems such as hot data writing, storage skew, high I/O overhead and slow retrieval speed. In order to solv...

  • Article
  • Open Access
62 Citations
6,497 Views
22 Pages

TRFM-LS: Transformer-Based Deep Learning Method for Vessel Trajectory Prediction

  • Dapeng Jiang,
  • Guoyou Shi,
  • Na Li,
  • Lin Ma,
  • Weifeng Li and
  • Jiahui Shi

In the context of the rapid development of deep learning theory, predicting future motion states based on time series sequence data of ship trajectories can significantly improve the safety of the traffic environment. Considering the spatiotemporal c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,667 Views
11 Pages

14 January 2019

The influence of the waveform of circularly polarized laser field on high-order harmonic (HH) generation from atoms is investigated by solving the time-dependent Schrödinger equation (TDSE) and by classical trajectory analysis, without assuming...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
7,036 Views
24 Pages

Raw GPS trajectory data are often very large and use up excessive storage space. The efficiency and accuracy of activity patterns analysis or individual–environment interaction modeling using such data may be compromised due to data size and computat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,401 Views
16 Pages

18 January 2022

Ship type classification is an essential task in maritime navigation domains, contributing to shipping monitoring, analysis, and forecasting. Presently, with the development of ship positioning and monitoring systems, many ship trajectory acquisition...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,096 Views
21 Pages

Modelling human mobility is crucial in several areas, from urban planning to epidemic modelling, traffic forecasting, and what-if analysis. Existing generative models focus mainly on reproducing the spatial and temporal dimensions of human mobility,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
7,178 Views
21 Pages

30 December 2015

Passive infrared (PIR) motion detectors, which can support long-term continuous observation, are widely used for human motion analysis. Extracting all possible trajectories from the PIR sensor networks is important. Because the PIR sensor does not lo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,232 Views
15 Pages

22 March 2022

One of the most basic methods of technical analysis that is used in the practice of investment is the analysis of moving averages, usually calculated for exchange rates in a candlestick representation. The following paper proposes a new, state model,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
856 Views
29 Pages

10 July 2025

One of the most challenging problems in data analysis is visualizing patterns and extracting insights from multi-dimensional datasets that vary over time. The complexity of data and variations in the correlations between different features adds furth...

  • Article
  • Open Access
44 Citations
8,437 Views
24 Pages

A Survey on Big Data for Trajectory Analytics

  • Damião Ribeiro de Almeida,
  • Cláudio de Souza Baptista,
  • Fabio Gomes de Andrade and
  • Amilcar Soares

Trajectory data allow the study of the behavior of moving objects, from humans to animals. Wireless communication, mobile devices, and technologies such as Global Positioning System (GPS) have contributed to the growth of the trajectory research fiel...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,620 Views
15 Pages

Analyzing and Visualizing Spatiotemporal Patterns of El Niño Teleconnections Using Attribute Trajectories

  • Long Zhang,
  • Bert Van Schaeybroeck,
  • Steven Caluwaerts,
  • Piet Termonia and
  • Nico Van de Weghe

24 March 2021

El Niño influences the global climate through teleconnections that are not constant in space and time. In order to study and visualize the spatiotemporal patterns of the El Niño teleconnections, a new method inspired by the concept of attribute traje...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,917 Views
10 Pages

15 December 2022

To date, statistical analyses of aircraft trajectories have been under-exploited in the Airspace Traffic Management (ATM) literature. One reason is the need for advanced methods to tackle the high sampling irregularities and temporal correlations tha...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,524 Views
25 Pages

In this paper, a data-driven framework aimed at investigating how weather factors affect the spatio-temporal patterns of air traffic flow in the terminal maneuvering area (TMA) is presented. The framework mainly consists of three core modules, namely...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
941 Views
15 Pages

Mapping Long-Term Wildfire Dynamics in Portugal Using Trajectory Analysis (1975–2024)

  • Bruno Barbosa,
  • Ana Gonçalves,
  • Sandra Oliveira and
  • Cláudia M. Viana

13 September 2025

Wildfire regimes in Mediterranean landscapes are becoming increasingly unpredictable, driven by the combined effects of climate change, land-use transitions, and socio-economic pressures. Traditional metrics such as burned area or ignition points oft...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,152 Views
21 Pages

Vessel trajectory prediction is fundamental to maritime navigation, safety, and operational efficiency, particularly as the industry increasingly relies on digital solutions and real-time data analytics. This study addresses the challenge of forecast...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,090 Views
16 Pages

7 November 2022

In the tracking scheme in which global navigation satellite system (GNSS) measurement is temporally lost or the sampling frequency is insufficient, dead reckoning based on the inertial measurement unit (IMU) and other location-related information can...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,309 Views
12 Pages

Cross-Camera Tracking Model and Method Based on Multi-Feature Fusion

  • Peng Zhang,
  • Siqi Wang,
  • Wei Zhang,
  • Weimin Lei,
  • Xinlei Zhao,
  • Qingyang Jing and
  • Mingxin Liu

2 December 2023

Multi-camera video surveillance has been widely applied in crowd statistics and analysis in smart city scenarios. Most existing studies rely on appearance or motion features for cross-camera trajectory tracking, due to the changing asymmetric perspec...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,412 Views
17 Pages

Trend Analysis and Spatial Source Attribution of Surface Ozone in Chaozhou, China

  • Zhongwen Huang,
  • Lei Tong,
  • Xuchu Zhu,
  • Junxiao Su,
  • Shaoyun Lu and
  • Hang Xiao

28 June 2024

Surface ozone (O3), a critical air pollutant, poses significant challenges in urban environments, as exemplified by the city of Chaozhou in southeastern China. This study employs a novel combination of trend analysis and spatial source attribution te...

  • Review
  • Open Access
34 Citations
14,533 Views
50 Pages

Diverse Visualization Techniques and Methods of Moving-Object-Trajectory Data: A Review

  • Jing He,
  • Haonan Chen,
  • Yijin Chen,
  • Xinming Tang and
  • Yebin Zou

Trajectory big data have significant applications in many areas, such as traffic management, urban planning and military reconnaissance. Traditional visualization methods, which are represented by contour maps, shading maps and hypsometric maps, are...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,370 Views
19 Pages

3 August 2023

With the emergence of intelligent transportation and smart city system, the issue of how to perform an efficient and reasonable clustering analysis of the mass vehicle trajectories on multi-camera monitoring videos through computer vision has become...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,775 Views
21 Pages

29 November 2024

Simplifying trajectory data can improve the efficiency of trajectory data analysis and query and reduce the communication cost and computational overhead of trajectory data. In this paper, a real-time trajectory simplification algorithm (SSFI) based...

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