Quantile regression improves urban water demand forecasting.
problem Improving probabilistic urban water demand forecasting.
method Comparing five quantile regression algorithms and their combinations for one-day ahead forecasting.
result Linear boosting algorithm performs best for probabilistic urban water demand forecasting.
Novel graph model forecasts urban traffic with reduced spatial complexity.
problem Challenges in traffic forecasting due to spatio-temporal complexity, especially in urban environments.
method MW-TGC network model that combines spatial and temporal dependencies using multi-weighted adjacency matrices and graph convolution operations.
result MW-TGC network outperforms other models in urban-core and urban-mix sites, reducing variance in heterogeneous environments.
New framework predicts urban traffic with high accuracy.
problem Urban traffic prediction challenges.
method Interpretable attention-based neural network combining multiple modules.
result Framework outperforms state-of-the-art alternatives.
GraphSVR forecasts urban air pollution robustly across stations and seasons.
problem Nonlinear, nonstationary, spatiotemporally dependent urban air pollution forecasting challenges.
method Combines graph convolutional learning and support vector regression.
result GraphSVR improves predictive accuracy and maintains stable performance across seasons and outlier-prone episodes.
NoTMF forecasts sparse urban road movement speeds with nonstationary temporal matrix factorization.
problem Sparse and nonstationary movement speed data from urban roads.
method Nonstationary Temporal Matrix Factorization (NoTMF) model.
result NoTMF outperforms baseline models in forecasting urban road movement speeds.
Paper uses DMD to embed time in spatiotemporal forecasting.
problem Forecasting long-range seasonal dependencies in spatiotemporal data.
method Dynamic Mode Decomposition (DMD) for time representation.
result DMD-based embedding improves long-horizon forecasting accuracy.
Proposes a method to improve urban spatiotemporal forecasting using multi-modal graph interaction.
problem Improving spatiotemporal forecasting in urban areas using graph convolution networks.
method Develops modality interaction mechanisms for multi-graph convolution networks to reduce generalization error.
result Proposed techniques improve prediction accuracy and model robustness compared to state-of-the-art baselines.
Accurate and real-time traffic forecasting plays an important role in the Intelligent Traffic System and is of great significance for urban traffic planning, traffic management, and traffic control. However, traffic forecasting has always been considered an open scientific issue, owing to the constraints of urban road …
Survey of urban flows prediction methods using various datasets.
problem Predicting urban flows influenced by human activities, weather, events, and holidays.
method Analysis of four main factors, preparation of multi-sources spatial-temporal data, detailed comparison of five categories of prediction methods.
result Facilitates researchers to choose suitable methods and datasets for urban flows prediction.
The paper predicts travel times using tree-based ensembles.
problem Predicting travel times between urban points over short and long horizons.
method Tree-based ensemble methods trained on taxi trip records with additional features from weather and routing data.
result Adding routing data improves model performance and short-term predictions require less data.
New model predicts urban sprawl sensitivity from remote sensing data.
problem Forecasting urban sprawl sensitivity to economic factors.
method Physics-constrained conditional GANs for image-to-image translation.
result Model accurately predicts urban sprawl sensitivity without detailed data.
MIP framework improves urban flow prediction by adapting to distribution shifts.
problem Distribution shifts in urban flow data make prediction models unreliable.
method Memory-enhanced Invariant Prompt learning with learnable memory bank.
result MIP ensures robust predictions by focusing on invariant features.
Study improves crash rate forecasting in Washington, D.C. using stochastic volatility model.
problem Forecasting crash rates in areas with irregular traffic patterns and exogenous events.
method Adopted a stochastic volatility model to capture heterogeneity and temporal instability.
result The stochastic volatility model outperforms conventional models in forecasting crash rates in Washington, D.C.
Study compares deep learning models for traffic forecasting, highlighting graph elements' impact.
problem Challenges in forecasting spatial-temporal traffic patterns.
method In-depth comparative study of four deep neural network models with different basic elements.
result Graph attention improves long-term predictions in traffic forecasting models.
The paper proposes a model to forecast traffic motion from sensor data.
problem Accurately predicting traffic motion for safe vehicle maneuvers.
method Implicit latent variable model using interaction graphs and graph neural networks.
result Achieves state-of-the-art motion forecasting and interaction understanding.
Tackling air pollution is an imperative problem in South Korea, especially in urban areas, over the last few years. More specially, South Korea has joined the ranks of the world's most polluted countries alongside with other Asian capitals, such as Beijing or Delhi. Much research is being conducted in environmental sci…
Quantile gradient boosted trees outperform other models in predicting NO2 concentration distributions.
problem Forecasting high NO2 concentration episodes for effective air quality management.
method Compared 10 probabilistic forecasting models for NO2 concentration prediction.
result Quantile gradient boosted trees model outperformed others in predicting NO2 concentration distributions.
Proposes a dynamic model for urban traffic volume prediction.
problem Urban traffic volume prediction for better traffic management and driver planning.
method Combines bidirectional LSTM, attention mechanism, and external features.
result Improves prediction precision by 3-7 percent on NYC-Taxi and NYC-Bike datasets.
Proposes FairDRL-ST for fair spatio-temporal mobility prediction.
problem Fairness concerns in spatio-temporal AI applications.
method Disentangled representation learning, adversarial learning.
result Achieves fairness in spatio-temporal mobility prediction without performance loss.
A long-standing question for urban and regional planners pertains to the ability to describe urban patterns quantitatively. Cities' transport infrastructure, particularly street networks, provides an invaluable source of information about the urban patterns generated by peoples' movements and their interactions. With t…
UrbanRhythm reveals urban dynamics from mobility data.
problem Understanding changing urban activities over time.
method Extracting staying, leaving, arriving attributes; using Saak transform; clustering for city states; motif analysis for short-term regularity.
result Characterized urban dynamics as city state transformations over time.
PSTN improves traffic condition forecasting with deep neural networks.
problem Challenges in accurately forecasting traffic conditions due to complex spatiotemporal correlations.
method Proposes PSTN with three modules: graph convolutional network, temporal convolutional network, and gated recurrent unit framework.
result Significantly outperforms state-of-the-art benchmarks in short-term traffic conditions forecasting.
Hybrid model predicts flow and pressure in water systems.
problem Predicting flow and pressure in water distribution systems with complex spatial-temporal correlations.
method Hybrid dual-stage spatial-temporal attention-based recurrent neural networks (hDS-RNN).
result Our model outperformed 9 baseline models in flow and pressure series prediction.
Is there a general economic pathway recapitulated by individual cities over and over? Identifying such evolution structure, if any, would inform models for the assessment, maintenance, and forecasting of urban sustainability and economic success as a quantitative baseline. This premise seems to contradict the existing …
New neural network predicts traffic flow across different cities.
problem Forecasting traffic flow across different cities is challenging due to spatio-temporal correlations.
method Proposes a local-spacetime neural network (STNN) that captures universal spatio-temporal correlations.
result Improves prediction accuracy by 4% over state-of-the-art methods.
Graph embeddings from commute networks identify socioeconomic disparities in urban areas.
problem Urban delineation and socioeconomic group identification.
method Graph Neural Network (GNN) for modeling commute networks and deriving node embeddings.
result GNNs effectively capture socioeconomic disparities between urban communities.
Study proposes CNN for reconstructing high-res urban DEMs.
problem Lack of high-res urban DEM datasets for flood modeling.
method Multi-scale CNN model trained on urban DEMs of varying resolutions.
result CNN-based method produces superior high-res urban DEMs.
CityTFT models urban building energy using a data-driven approach.
problem Current UBEM methods are time-consuming and based on physics.
method CityTFT uses a TFT framework with an augmented loss function.
result CityTFT predicts energy demands with high accuracy.
Paper uses DeePC to improve urban traffic lights, reducing congestion and emissions.
problem Urban traffic congestion in expanding cities.
method Behavioral system theory, data-driven control, DeePC algorithm.
result DeePC outperforms existing traffic control methods in travel time and CO2 emissions.
Dynamic sample pruning speeds up spatio-temporal forecasting models.
problem Training deep learning models on large, redundant datasets is computationally expensive.
method Dynamic sample pruning based on real-time learning state.
result Significant acceleration of training speed with improved performance.
Timely accurate traffic forecast is crucial for urban traffic control and guidance. Due to the high nonlinearity and complexity of traffic flow, traditional methods cannot satisfy the requirements of mid-and-long term prediction tasks and often neglect spatial and temporal dependencies. In this paper, we propose a nove…
Interpretable additive models outperform complex DL and hybrid pipelines for air quality forecasting.
problem Accurate forecasting of urban air pollution for public health and policy guidance.
method Investigated lightweight additive models (FBP, NP) vs. deep learning and hybrid pipelines on Beijing PM2.5 and PM10 data.
result Facebook Prophet consistently outperformed NeuralProphet and traditional models, achieving high R2 values. New method combines simple forecasting techniques for river flow predictions.
problem Improving accuracy of long-term hydrological forecasts.
method Combines at least two forecasting methods using median combiner.
result Performs well in long-term forecasts, especially with multiple methods.
Understanding the causes of crime is a longstanding issue in researcher's agenda. While it is a hard task to extract causality from data, several linear models have been proposed to predict crime through the existing correlations between crime and urban metrics. However, because of non-Gaussian distributions and multic…
Urban transformations within large and growing metropolitan areas often generate critical dynamics affecting social interactions, transport connectivity and income flow distribution. We develop a statistical-mechanical model of urban transformations, exemplified for Greater Sydney, and derive a thermodynamic descriptio…
Study characterizes PM2.5 dynamics in Bujumbura using low-cost sensors.
problem Characterize spatio-temporal variability of PM2.5 in Bujumbura.
method Used low-cost sensors to collect data from August 2022 to August 2023. Analyzed hourly, daily, and seasonal PM2.5 concentrations using RNN with LSTM.
result Hourly and annual PM2.5 concentrations in Bujumbura exceed WHO standards.
Model predicts traffic speed using urban incidents.
problem Accurately predicting traffic speed in urban areas.
method Deep Incident-Aware Graph Convolutional Network (DIGC-Net).
result Model outperforms competing benchmarks in traffic speed prediction.
Recent years have witnessed the world-wide emergence of mega-metropolises with incredibly huge populations. Understanding residents mobility patterns, or urban dynamics, thus becomes crucial for building modern smart cities. In this paper, we propose a Neighbor-Regularized and context-aware Non-negative Tensor Factoriz…
hood2vec identifies urban area similarity via mobility networks.
problem Identifying similar urban areas using mobility networks.
method Learning node embeddings of the mobility network from Foursquare check-ins.
result Mobility dynamics capture different aspects of urban area similarity than venue types.
The paper uses GIS data to predict urban sprawl.
problem Overgrowth and expansion of low-density areas with car dependency and segregation.
method Data mining algorithms (Apriori, J4.8) adapted for geospatial analysis using ArcGIS.
result Prototype spatial decision support system (SDSS) predicts urban sprawl and estimates impact variables.
Paper optimizes urban navigation with deep learning models.
problem Real-time urban pathfinding challenges.
method Enhanced A* algorithm and neural network model.
result Neural network model outperforms traditional methods, reducing travel times by up to 40%.
Deep learning agent improves pedestrian navigation in urban environments.
problem Autonomous driving among pedestrians in urban areas.
method Multi-objective deep reinforcement learning using a deep Q-learning variant.
result The multi-objective DQN agent outperforms single-objective DQN in various environments.
Novel RL method handles urban driving tasks including traffic lights.
problem Difficulties in reinforcement learning for complex urban driving tasks.
method Implicit affordances for model-free RL.
result Successfully handles urban driving tasks including traffic lights.
Bayesian network framework assesses urban risks across multiple domains.
problem Complex interdependencies in urban systems.
method Bayesian Belief Networks (BBNs) with DAGs, Hill-Climbing search, BIC, K2 scoring, synthetic data, SMOTE.
result Identifies key risk factors and quantifies likelihood of cascading failures.
AirRL uses RL to infer urban air quality from selected stations.
problem Inferring fine-grained urban air quality from limited monitoring stations.
method Reinforcement learning model with a dynamic station selector and air quality regressor.
result AirRL achieves highest performance in air quality inference experiments.
MMformer improves forecasting of environmental time series data.
problem Accurately forecasting environmental change trends for policy-making.
method Meta-learning MTS model combining self-attention and adaptive transferable multi-head attention.
result MMformer outperforms other models in air quality and climate datasets, reducing prediction errors by 50% in MSE and 20% in MAE.
Cultural activity is an inherent aspect of urban life and the success of a modern city is largely determined by its capacity to offer generous cultural entertainment to its citizens. To this end, the optimal allocation of cultural establishments and related resources across urban regions becomes of vital importance, as…
Deep Recurrent Q-Network improves autonomous driving in urban areas with pedestrians.
problem Challenges in urban autonomous driving due to complex road structures and unpredictable pedestrian behavior.
method Combines Deep Q-Network with LSTM for long-term memory, designed a 3-D state representation, and uses a reward function.
result The proposed DRQN-based approach outperforms rule-based methods in dense urban scenarios.