---
title: "Mobility and location data: datasets and research"
description: "Mobility and location data: Phone-based foot traffic and movement data, public transit feeds and trip records of shared mobility. Explore the datasets, historical mentions and recent research papers."
url: https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/mobility-and-location-data
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share_text: "Mobility and location data: Phone-based foot traffic and movement data, public transit feeds and trip records of shared mobility. Explore the datasets, historical mentions and recent research papers. (as of 2026-11-05)"
data_url: https://scholar4ai.com/data/rankings.json
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window: 2026-10-07 to 2026-11-05
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---

# Mobility and location data

Phone-based foot traffic and movement data, public transit feeds and trip records of shared mobility.

- 0 papers in the last 7 days
- 2 of its 6 datasets mentioned

Back to the ranking: https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/datasets.md
All dataset categories: https://scholar4ai.com/datasets.md



## Key findings

- Datasets in the category “Mobility and location data” were mentioned in 2 papers in the last 30 days (2026-10-07 to 2026-11-05). Rank: #47 of 59 data categories mentioned.
- The most-mentioned were Google COVID-19 Community Mobility Reports (1) and GTFS transit feeds (1).
- By journal category: Operations Research (2).
- Most of them appeared in Public Transport (1) and Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies (1).

## Dataset mention counts

*Datasets in this category · 2026-10-07 – 2026-11-05 (30 days)*

| Dataset | Papers | Last 7 days | Names searched for |
|---|---:|---:|---|
| [Google COVID-19 Community Mobility Reports](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/google-covid-19-community-mobility-reports.md) | 1 | 0 | Community Mobility Reports, Community Mobility Report, Google mobility data, Google Mobility Reports |
| [GTFS transit feeds](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/gtfs-transit-feeds.md) | 1 | 0 | General Transit Feed Specification, GTFS |
| [Bike-sharing trip data](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/bike-sharing-trip-data.md) | 0 | 0 | Citi Bike, bike-sharing data, bike sharing data, Divvy bike |
| Placer.ai and Advan foot traffic | 0 | 0 | Placer.ai, Advan Research, Advan foot traffic |
| [SafeGraph](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/safegraph.md) | 0 | 0 | SafeGraph |
| Uber Movement | 0 | 0 | Uber Movement |

## Mentions over 36 months

*Papers mentioning each dataset by publication month, Nov 2023 to Oct 2026 (titles, abstracts and keywords; the full texts of earlier months are still being searched)*

| Dataset | Trend | Nov 23–Oct 24 | Nov 24–Oct 25 | Nov 25–Oct 26 | 36 months |
|---|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| GTFS transit feeds |  | 23 | 24 | 24 | 71 |
| Bike-sharing trip data |  | 11 | 8 | 13 | 32 |
| Google COVID-19 Community Mobility Reports |  | 13 | 10 | 5 | 28 |
| SafeGraph |  | 6 | 4 | 4 | 14 |
| Uber Movement |  | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Placer.ai and Advan foot traffic |  | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |

## Papers

*Papers mentioning these datasets, newest first.*

| Date | Title | Journal | Authors | Affiliations | Datasets mentioned |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-22 | [Evaluating transit accessibility to education and the effects of operational delays in Japanese regional cities: a case study of Matsumoto City](https://doi.org/10.1007/s12469-026-00431-3) | [Public Transport](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/public-transport.md) | Itsuki Sato, Kiyoshi Takami, Giancarlos Parady | The University of Tokyo | GTFS transit feeds |
| 2026-10-12 | [From traffic-flow capacity to recovery capacity: An episode-based framework for multi-sector urban resilience](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trc.2026.106063) | [Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-c-emerging-technologies.md) | F. C. Tang, Xuesong Simon Zhou, Edward Zhu et al. | Arizona State University; Johns Hopkins University; Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo; … | Google COVID-19 Community Mobility Reports |

## Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). Mobility and location data. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/mobility-and-location-data

```bibtex
@misc{scholar4ai-datasets-mobility-and-location-data,
  author = {{Scholar4AI}},
  title = {Mobility and location data},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/mobility-and-location-data}},
  urldate = {2026-11-05},
  note = {Journal and Conference Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
}
```

License: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).