  Human mobility forecasting in a city is of utmost importance to
transportation and public safety, but with the process of urbanization and the
generation of big data, intensive computing and determination of mobility
pattern have become challenging. This study focuses on how to improve the
accuracy and efficiency of predicting citywide human mobility via a simpler
solution. A spatio-temporal mobility event prediction framework based on a
single fully-convolutional residual network (STAR) is proposed. STAR is a
highly simple, general and effective method for learning a single tensor
representing the mobility event. Residual learning is utilized for training the
deep network to derive the detailed result for scenarios of citywide
prediction. Extensive benchmark evaluation results on real-world data
demonstrate that STAR outperforms state-of-the-art approaches in single- and
multi-step prediction while utilizing fewer parameters and achieving higher
efficiency.
