A Spatio-temporal Simulation Model for Movement Data Generation

The real-world process of generating a large spatio-temporal data collection presents a very difficult technical problem. First, this process is very expensive, requiring a lot of various high-technology software tools and modern hardware infrastructure (sensors, servers, GPS infrastructure etc.) installations; second, the recorded trajectories sometimes cannot represent any special traffic or movement patterns. The simulation framework introduced in this paper can generate diverse trajectory datasets based on predetermined movement patterns.