Why This Matters

High-resolution origin-destination data is essential for transportation planning and traffic management, yet collecting such data through surveys or GPS tracking is expensive and privacy-invasive. Existing synthetic approaches fail to capture temporal and spatial granularity needed for realistic simulation. MoveOD is innovative because it demonstrates how publicly available marginal data can be combined through principled statistical methods to generate detailed, temporally-resolved commute patterns that preserve observed macro-level statistics while enabling microscopic simulations.

What We Did

MoveOD presents a framework for synthesizing fine-grained origin-destination commute patterns from publicly available datasets by integrating census data, employment records, and road networks. The approach uses Bayesian decomposition to generate minute-level commute trip distributions while preserving spatial and temporal coherence with observed commuting patterns. The framework leverages public data sources including US Census Community Survey, Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics, and OpenStreetMap to generate realistic synthetic commute data.

Key Results

Validation on Hamilton County, Tennessee data demonstrates that the calibrated MoveOD approach accurately reproduces observed census commute patterns while generating realistic minute-level departure time distributions. The framework achieves alignment with ACS travel time margins through careful calibration, enabling fast synthetic data generation suitable for any US county and providing a reusable tool for transportation research.

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Cite This Paper

@inproceedings{iccps2026_moveod,
  author = {Sen, Rishav and Talusan, Jose Paolo and Dubey, Abhishek and Mukhopadhyay, Ayan and Samaranayake, Samitha and Laszka, Aron},
  title = {MoveOD: Synthesizing Fine-Grained Origin--Destination Data for Transportation CPS},
  year = {2026},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the HSCC/ICCPS 2026: 29th ACM International Conference on Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control and 17th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems},
  location = {Saint Malo, France},
  abstract = {High-resolution origin–destination (OD) tables are critical to cyber-physical transportation systems, enabling realistic digital twins, adaptive routing strategies, signal timing optimization, and demand-responsive mobility services. However, such OD data is rarely available outside a small number of data-rich metropolitan regions. We introduce MoveOD, an open-source pipeline that synthesizes publicly available datasets to generate fine-grained commuter OD flows with spatial and temporal departure distributions for any U.S. county. MoveOD fuses American Community Survey travel-time and departure distributions, Longitudinal Employer–Household Dynamics (LODES) residence–workplace flows, OpenStreetMap (OSM) road networks, and building footprint data. Our approach ensures consistency with observed commuter totals, workplace employment distributions, and reported travel durations. MoveOD is integrated with a transportation digital twin, enabling end-to-end CPS experimentation. We demonstrate the system in Hamilton County, Tennessee, generating approximately 150,000 synthetic daily trips and evaluating routing algorithms in a live dashboard.},
  keywords = {origin-destination synthesis, travel demand, transportation planning, data fusion, Bayesian methods, public datasets, traffic simulation},
  note = {Acceptance rate: 28\%; Short Paper; Track: Systems and Applications},
  series = {HSCC/ICCPS '26}
}
Quick Info
Year 2026
Series HSCC/ICCPS '26
Keywords
origin-destination synthesis travel demand transportation planning data fusion Bayesian methods public datasets traffic simulation
Research Areas
transit planning
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MoveOD, Synthesizing, Fine, Grained, Origin, Destination, Data, Transportation, origin-destination synthesis, travel demand, transportation planning, data fusion, Bayesian methods, public datasets, traffic simulation, transit, planning, 2026, Sen, Talusan, Dubey, Mukhopadhyay, Samaranayake, Laszka, HSCC/ICCPS26