NetMob 2025

The 2025 edition marks the 9th edition of NetMob, continuing a tradition that began in 2010. Following the great success of NetMob 2024 held at the World Bank Group Main Campus in Washington, D.C., the NetMob community has established itself as a leading platform for advancing mobile data analytics.

The upcoming NetMob 2025 edition will take place in Paris, France, in October 2025, bringing together researchers, industry professionals, and policymakers to explore the latest advancements in mobile network data analysis. As in previous years, NetMob 2025 will feature a single-track format with short contributed talks, providing a platform for presenting early-stage research and studies published elsewhere.

Topics will cover various aspects of mobile data analytics, including Call Detail Records (CDRs), mobile location data, Wi-Fi traces, app usage statistics, and social media content analytics.

Stay tuned for more details on submission deadlines, registration, and the official program!

Submission format:

Authors are invited to submit two-page abstracts (including figures, tables and references).
Submissions should include the title, author(s), affiliation(s) and email address(es) on the first page.
Electronic submission of manuscripts in PDF format is required.

Important dates

Submission website opening: June 1, 2025
Submission deadline: July 1, 2025 AoE
Notification of acceptance: July 22, 2025
Conference: October 8-10, 2025

Data Challenge

Colocated with NetMob 2025, we are launching the new edition of the NetMob Data Challenge. This initiative continues to foster research and innovation around mobility data, encouraging both methodological advances and practical applications that address pressing urban and societal challenges.

For this year’s edition, we are excited to release a unique dataset from a GNSS-based mobility survey conducted in the Île-de-France region (Greater Paris area). This high-resolution dataset captures the mobility behavior of over 3,300 volunteered participants between October 2022 and May 2023. Volunteers consented to the data collection and were equipped with dedicated GPS tracking devices for seven consecutive days and maintained digital (or optional paper) travel diaries, with all information validated through follow-up phone interviews.

The dataset includes:

An individual-level database describing sociodemographic, educational, and household attributes of the participants
A trip-level database covering over 80,000 trips, including origin, destination, purpose, duration, and mode of transport
A raw GNSS trace database of approximately 500 million GPS points
An upcoming daily activity log dataset capturing contextual information such as teleworking, reasons for non-mobility, or specific daily constraints

Together, these resources provide an unprecedented view into everyday mobility behaviors in a major European metropolitan region, offering rich possibilities for research on travel behavior, multimodality, transport equity, algorithm validation, and more.

Participants are invited to explore these data and submit original analyses, models, or insights. All participants must agree to the Terms and Conditions before accessing the data.

To request access, please complete the following form.

Submissions will be evaluated based on clarity, originality, and potential impact. Winners will be awarded access to additional data resources and receive visibility within the NetMob community.

Challenge format:

Prospective participants shall apply to the challenge in order to gain access to the dataset. Access is subject to acceptance of the challenge’s Terms and Conditions. To request access, please complete the data request form.
Admitted participants shall submit two-page extended abstracts in PDF format by July 15, 2025. Each submission must include: a title, author(s) and affiliation(s), email address(es) on the first page, a description of preliminary results from the analysis of the dataset, and must comply with the official NetMob 2025 paper template (see link below).
Selected participants will be invited to submit by September 10, 2025 a final report consisting of: a complete document (no page limits) that will remain confidential and be used to select challenge awardees and to decide whether the work will be presented at the conference as a talk or a poster; and a 2-page summary of the work that will be published in the public NetMob 2025 Book of Abstracts.

Important dates:

Challenge launch: June 1, 2024
Abstract submission website opening: June 15, 2025
Research proposal submission deadline: July 15, 2025
Notification of acceptance: July 22, 2025
Final abstract submission deadline: September 10, 2025
Notification of presentation and poster: September 15, 2025
Presentation at the conference: October 6, 2025

Suggested Topics:

Human mobility patterns across a full week using GPS-based tracking
Comparison of algorithmically inferred and self-reported trip data
Travel behavior by sociodemographic group or household structure
Short-distance or non-motorized mobility: detection, gaps, and correction
Multimodality and transportation mode choice
Temporal rhythms of daily mobility at the individual level
Weighting, representativeness, and inference from sampled mobility
Data fusion: integrating surveys, administrative data, or external sensors with GPS traces
Bias and uncertainty in high-resolution mobility surveys

New This Year at NetMob 2025

We are introducing a new requirement for paper submissions:
All authors must use the official NetMob 2025 paper template.

Submissions should be limited to 2 pages including all figures and references, following the format provided.
The template is available on Overleaf. Authors who prefer not to use Overleaf may download the LaTeX source or the Word version directly from the links below.

This change aims to standardize submissions and ensure a smoother reviewing process. Please make sure your submission strictly follows the template. Submissions that do not comply will be returned for revision before being considered for review.

NetMob 2025 will take place in October 2025 at the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers (CNAM) in Paris, France. Located in the heart of the city, CNAM is a historic institution known for its contributions to science and technology.

Venue address: Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers (CNAM) 292 Rue Saint-Martin, 75003 Paris, France

The campus can be reached via public transport by: