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        <journal-title xml:lang="en">JUCS - Journal of Universal Computer Science</journal-title>
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      <issn pub-type="ppub">0948-695X</issn>
      <issn pub-type="epub">0948-6968</issn>
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        <publisher-name>Journal of Universal Computer Science</publisher-name>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.3897/jucs.94514</article-id>
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        <subj-group subj-group-type="heading">
          <subject>Research Article</subject>
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          <subject>E.0 - GENERAL</subject>
          <subject>I.2.1 - Applications and Expert Systems</subject>
          <subject>J.4 - SOCIAL AND BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES</subject>
          <subject>J.m - MISCELLANEOUS</subject>
          <subject>L.7 - UBIQUITOUS/PERVASIVE/MOBILE</subject>
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        <article-title>Human Mobility Prediction with Region-based Flows and Road Traffic Data</article-title>
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          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Terroso-Saenz</surname>
            <given-names>Fernando</given-names>
          </name>
          <email xlink:type="simple">fterroso@ucam.edu</email>
          <uri content-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1921-1137</uri>
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        <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="no">
          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Muñoz</surname>
            <given-names>Andres</given-names>
          </name>
          <uri content-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8491-4592</uri>
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      <aff id="A1">
        <label>1</label>
        <addr-line content-type="verbatim">Universidad Católica de Murcia (UCAM), Murcia, Spain</addr-line>
        <institution>Universidad Católica de Murcia (UCAM)</institution>
        <addr-line content-type="city">Murcia</addr-line>
        <country>Spain</country>
      </aff>
      <aff id="A2">
        <label>2</label>
        <addr-line content-type="verbatim">University of Cadiz, Cadiz, Spain</addr-line>
        <institution>University of Cadiz</institution>
        <addr-line content-type="city">Cadiz</addr-line>
        <country>Spain</country>
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      <author-notes>
        <fn fn-type="corresp">
          <p>Corresponding author: Fernando Terroso-Saenz (<email xlink:type="simple">fterroso@ucam.edu</email>).</p>
        </fn>
        <fn fn-type="edited-by">
          <p>Academic editor: </p>
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      <pub-date pub-type="collection">
        <year>2023</year>
      </pub-date>
      <pub-date pub-type="epub">
        <day>28</day>
        <month>04</month>
        <year>2023</year>
      </pub-date>
      <volume>29</volume>
      <issue>4</issue>
      <fpage>374</fpage>
      <lpage>396</lpage>
      <uri content-type="arpha" xlink:href="http://openbiodiv.net/CE9B3FEF-9A28-54F6-9C06-C117F7A03714">CE9B3FEF-9A28-54F6-9C06-C117F7A03714</uri>
      <uri content-type="zenodo_dep_id" xlink:href="https://zenodo.org/record/7880041">7880041</uri>
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        <date date-type="received">
          <day>06</day>
          <month>09</month>
          <year>2022</year>
        </date>
        <date date-type="accepted">
          <day>10</day>
          <month>01</month>
          <year>2023</year>
        </date>
      </history>
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        <copyright-statement>Fernando Terroso-Saenz, Andres Muñoz</copyright-statement>
        <license license-type="creative-commons-attribution" xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/" xlink:type="simple">
          <license-p>This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY-ND 4.0). This license allows reusers to copy and distribute the material in any medium or format in unadapted form only, and only so long as attribution is given to the creator. The license allows for commercial use.</license-p>
        </license>
      </permissions>
      <abstract>
        <label>Abstract</label>
        <p>Predicting human mobility is a key element in the development of intelligent transport systems. Current digital technologies enable capturing a wealth of data on mobility flows between geographic areas, which are then used to train machine learning models to predict these flows. However, most works have only considered a single data source for building these models or different sources but covering the same spatial area. In this paper we propose to augment a macro open-data mobility study based on cellular phones with data from a road traffic sensor located within a specific motorway of one of the mobility areas in the study. The results show that models trained with the fusion of both types of data, especially long short-term memory (LSTM) and Gated Recurrent Unit (GRU) neural networks, provide a more reliable prediction than models based only on the open data source. These results show that it is possible to predict the traffic entering a particular city in the next 30 minutes with an absolute error less than 10%. Thus, this work is a further step towards improving the prediction of human mobility in interurban areas by fusing open data with data from IoT systems.</p>
      </abstract>
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            <named-content content-type="funder_name">Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación</named-content>
            <named-content content-type="funder_identifier">501100004837</named-content>
            <named-content content-type="funder_doi">http://doi.org/10.13039/501100004837</named-content>
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