构建统一基准,评估城市车辆轨迹生成模型的多维度表现。
CityTrajBench: A Unified Benchmark for City-Scale Vehicle Trajectory Generation

- 设计标准化流程,统一数据、特征、评估等实验条件。
- 发现扩散模型在轨迹几何相似性上最优,流匹配模型综合表现最佳。
- 适合研究城市交通模拟与生成模型的学者参考使用。
城市轨迹生成是交通仿真、城市规划与出行分析的基础任务。然而,现有研究因数据集、预处理、表示方式和评估指标不一致,难以进行系统性比较。为解决此问题,我们提出CityTrajBench,一个统一的城市级车辆轨迹生成基准框架。该基准标准化了数据摄入、轨迹归一化、特征构建、模型适配、地图感知后处理、模型选择及多层级评估。支持多种生成器,包括统计基线、VAE、GAN、扩散模型和流匹配模型,并在三个真实城市轨迹数据集上进行评估。评估指标涵盖全局空间真实性、行程级分布保真度、轨迹级几何相似性、条件出行一致性及效率。实验表明:DiffTraj在轨迹级几何保真度上最强,DiffRNTraj在结构敏感的全局真实性上表现优异,TrajFlow在真实性、质量、条件一致性与效率间取得良好平衡。而简单的马尔可夫基线在粗粒度行程与局部移动统计上仍具竞争力。结果表明城市轨迹生成是多目标问题,无单一模型在所有指标上全面领先。CityTrajBench为未来城市出行生成研究提供了可复现的基准协议与测试平台。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Urban trajectory generation is a fundamental task for transportation simulation, urban planning, and mobility analytics. However, systematic comparison across trajectory generation methods remains difficult because existing studies often rely on different datasets, preprocessing pipelines, trajectory representations, and evaluation metrics. This fragmentation makes it unclear whether reported performance differences arise from the generation mechanism itself or from inconsistent experimental protocols. To address this issue, we present CityTrajBench, a unified benchmark framework and protocol for city-scale vehicle trajectory generation. CityTrajBench standardizes data ingestion, trajectory normalization, feature construction, model adaptation, map-aware post-processing, model selection, and multi-level evaluation under a common setting. It supports heterogeneous generators, including statistical baselines, VAE-based, GAN-based, diffusion-based, and flow-matching-based models, and evaluates them on three real-world urban trajectory datasets. The benchmark measures global spatial realism, trip-level distribution fidelity, trajectory-level geometric similarity, conditional mobility consistency, and efficiency. Experiments reveal clear trade-offs across model families: DiffTraj is strongest on trajectory-level geometric fidelity, DiffRNTraj is competitive on structure-sensitive global realism, and TrajFlow provides a strong balance across realism, quality, conditional consistency, and efficiency. Meanwhile, a simple Markov baseline remains competitive on coarse-grained trip and local-movement statistics. These findings show that urban trajectory generation quality is inherently multi-objective, that no single model dominates all criteria equally, and that CityTrajBench provides a reproducible benchmark protocol and testbed for future research on urban mobility generation.
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