cs.LGOct 9, 2026

SeoulMMOD: A Large-Scale Multimodal Origin-Destination Flow Benchmark

Authors: Taeyoung Yu, Seonbin Jo, Jiwon Kim, Junyoung Byun

Organizations: The University of Queensland · POSTECH · Chung-Ang University

Abstract

Origin-destination (OD) flow forecasting supports urban mobility decisions by predicting the volume and patterns of human movement across a city. Most existing public OD benchmarks provide only a partial view of citywide mobility, covering a single transport service or at most two modes. With partial mode coverage, observed demand changes are difficult to separate into shifts across transport modes and changes in total travel. We introduce SeoulMMOD, a large-scale public benchmark for citywide multimodal mobility in Seoul. SeoulMMOD provides three years of hourly OD flows estimating total mobility for 6 urban travel modes across 25 districts and 426 sub-districts, together with travel-time, travel-distance, calendar, rainfall, and point-of-interest (POI) signals. Using SeoulMMOD, we benchmark 14 forecasting baselines under a common protocol and analyse the effects of spatial scaling, joint versus mode-separate training, and cross-year generalization. Results show that several spatio-temporal models that work at district level do not scale to sub-district OD forecasting, and that naive joint multi-mode training does not consistently improve accuracy. Together, the dataset and benchmark establish a reproducible testbed for multi-mode, multi-year OD forecasting at the city scale.

Figures & tables

Appendix figures & tables7 assets

Supplementary material from the paper’s appendix.

Appendix

Explore similar work

Aug 28, 2026

Learning to Transfer Across Modes: Towards Unified Urban Mobility Forecasting

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.
Jul 6, 2026

GeoFlow: Geo-Aware Modeling of Inter-Area Relationships in Origin-Destination Flow Prediction and Generation

Origin-destination (OD) flow modeling underpins urban planning and mobility analysis, but prevailing graph-based methods often neglect salient geographic attributes, limiting their ability to model long-range and multi-area dependencies. In this paper, we introduce GeoFlow, a novel framework that (i) augments area representations with geospatial attributes, including relative positions, k-hop and geodesic distances, (ii) employs a specialized geometric-intrinsic fusion encoder design that combines graph attention for intrinsic area signals with coordinate-aware encoders for global structure, and (iii) adopts an axial-global attention decoder to capture OD-specific competitive dependencies. For OD flow generation, GeoFlow is paired with flow matching models to produce more authentic and diverse mobility samples. Empirically, GeoFlow achieves superior performance in predictive accuracy, while substantially improving generative fidelity and diversity. Ablation and analytical studies confirm the contribution of each component. Code is available at https://github.com/ZheruiHuang/GeoFlow.
Jun 8, 2026

DynaOD: Dynamic Origin-Destination Flow Generation with Discrete-to-Continuous Temporal Semantic Modeling

Dynamic origin-destination (OD) flow generation seeks to synthesize realistic mobility dynamics from temporal context alone, without relying on historical OD observations. A key challenge is to translate semantic temporal signals into temporally coherent OD patterns while preserving the inherent spatial heterogeneity of urban regions. We propose DynaOD, a semantic-driven framework that models temporal dynamics through two complementary perspectives: discrete directional trends that characterize qualitative shifts in urban activity patterns, and continuous temporal evolution that captures how such shifts unfold over time. By jointly encoding these temporal semantics, the framework constructs time-varying region representations that condition pretrained static OD generators in a lightweight and plug-and-play fashion. This modular design further supports scalable deployment and cross-city transferability. Extensive experiments on large-scale real-world datasets show that our method consistently outperforms representative baselines in both predictive accuracy and distributional fidelity. Code is publicly available at https://github.com/csjiezhao/DynaOD.