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Integrating Knowledge and Data Driven Methods to Generate Synthetic Mobility Data

2025· article· en· W4414464116 on OpenAlexaff
Haya El Ghalayini, Meiqiu Liu, Rasheed Amanzai, Haruna Isah

Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicHuman Mobility and Location-Based Analysis
Canadian institutionsSheridan College
FundersResearch and Development
KeywordsData-drivenRepresentativeness heuristicGeospatial analysisData integrationScalabilityData collectionSynthetic dataData quality

Abstract

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Urban planning relies on the integration of mobility data from various sources. Analyzing this data can enhance decision-making for transportation services and improve multimodal transportation planning, thereby improving residents’ quality of life. However, traditional data collection methods are often error-prone, costly, and raise privacy concerns. Synthetic data offers a scalable and privacy-preserving alternative for filling gaps in real-world datasets. This paper proposes a hybrid approach that combines knowledge-driven and data-driven methods to generate realistic mobility trajectory data. Mobility data from multiple sources, including demographic statistics and geospatial information, is aggregated and used to simulate traffic patterns with the SUMO traffic simulator. A GAN-based model, specifically CTGAN, is then employed to refine and expand the dataset by generating additional synthetic mobility trajectories. The integration of multiple data sources in this study enhances the availability, diversity, and representativeness of mobility data, supporting more effective urban planning and transportation analysis.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.005
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Simulation or modeling · Consensus signal: Simulation or modeling
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.010
Threshold uncertainty score0.019

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.005
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.001
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.001
Scholarly communication0.0010.001
Open science0.0010.001
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.111
GPT teacher head0.480
Teacher spread0.369 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designSimulation or modeling
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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