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Vol. 21 No. 2 (2025)

Published: December 16, 2025

Pages: 284-292

Original Article

Mobility Prediction Based on LSTM Multi-Layer Using GPS Phone Data

Nabaa Mhalhal 1 Suhad Behadili
1Department of Computer Science, College of Science, University of Baghdad, Baghdad, Iraq
History
  • Received: December 22, 2023
  • Revised: February 4, 2024
  • Accepted: February 23, 2024
  • Available Online: February 28, 2025
DOI

https://doi.org/10.37917/ijeee.21.2.25

Abstract

Precise Prediction of activity location is an essential element in numerous mobility applications and is especially necessary for the development of tailored sustainable transportation systems. Next-location prediction, which involves predicting a user’s future position based on their past movement patterns, has significant implications in various domains, including urban planning, geo-marketing, disease transmission, Performance wireless network, Recommender Systems, and many other areas. In recent years, various predictors have been suggested to tackle this issue, including state-of-the-art ones that utilize deep learning techniques. This study introduces a robust Model for predicting the future location path of a user based on their known previous locations. The study proposes the use of a Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) prediction scheme, which is well-suited for learning from sequential data; then a fully connected neuron is employed to decrease the sparsity of the data, resulting in accurate predictions for the path of the user’s next location. The suggested strategy demonstrates superior prediction accuracy compared to a state-of-the-art method, with improvements of up to a loss error of 0.002 based on real-life datasets (Geolife). The results demonstrate that the reliability of forecasts is excellent, indicating the accuracy of the predictions.

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