Learning to Transfer Across Modes: Towards Unified Urban Mobility Forecasting

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.28273v2
• Date: Thu, 03 Sep 2026 17:55:56 GMT
• Title: Learning to Transfer Across Modes: Towards Unified Urban Mobility Forecasting
• Abstract summary: We propose TransMod, a unified framework for urban mobility demand forecasting.<n>TransMod constructs a shared zone-level spatial representation that aligns mobility systems with different spatial granularities into a common space.<n>Extensive experiments on real-world datasets demonstrate that TransMod consistently outperforms existing approaches.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Urban transportation systems consist of multiple mobility modes that coexist within the same city and exhibit complex interdependencies, leading to correlated demand dynamics across modes. However, forecasting demand jointly across different modes remains challenging due to substantial heterogeneity in space and the limited availability of historical data for emerging modes. Existing forecasting methods are largely developed for individual mobility modes and implicitly assume compatible spatial structures between source and target systems, which severely restricts their applicability in multi-modal settings. To address these challenges, we propose TransMod, a unified framework for urban mobility demand forecasting that enables effective knowledge transfer across heterogeneous mobility modes. TransMod constructs a shared zone-level spatial representation that aligns mobility systems with different spatial granularities into a common space, thereby reducing structural mismatch and distributional shift. Built on this unified representation, TransMod further learns transferable spatio-temporal patterns from data-rich source modes and adapts them to data-scarce target modes, alleviating the dependence on extensive target-domain histories. Extensive experiments on real-world datasets demonstrate that TransMod consistently outperforms existing approaches and provides robust forecasting performance under limited target data.

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