Model estimates urban capabilities driving economic performance.
problem Estimating the drivers of urban economic complexity and their connection to performance.
method Derived a model to infer capabilities from employment data, statistically superior to alternatives.
result The derived model explains known urban scaling and economic complexity results and correlates with economic performance.
Risk, including economic risk, is increasingly a concern for public policy and management. The possibility of dealing effectively with risk is hampered, however, by lack of a sound empirical basis for risk assessment and management. The paper demonstrates the general point for cost and demand risks in urban rail projec…
Some optimization or equilibrium problems involving somehow the concept of optimal transport are presented in these notes, mainly devoted to applications to economic and game theory settings. A variant model of transport, taking into account traffic congestion effects is the first topic, and it shows various links with…
Understanding cities is central to addressing major global challenges from climate and health to economic resilience. Although increasingly perceived as fundamental socio-economic units, the detailed fabric of urban economic activities is only now accessible to comprehensive analyses with the availability of large data…
Understanding urban growth is one with understanding how society evolves to satisfy the needs of its individuals in sharing a common space and adapting to the territory. We propose here a quantitative analysis of the historical development of a large urban area by investigating the spatial distribution and the age of c…
Intensive development of urban systems creates a number of challenges for urban planners and policy makers in order to maintain sustainable growth. Running efficient urban policies requires meaningful urban metrics, which could quantify important urban characteristics including various aspects of an actual human behavi…
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.
I propose and briefly define the concept of Urban Isobenefit Lines by using functions as easy as efficient, whose results can offer a rich tool to use into spatial equilibrium analysis involving cities. They are line joining urban points with equal level of positional advantage from city amenities. The results which on…
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.
Model explains herding and volatility in urban housing prices.
problem Understanding non-linear price dynamics in urban housing markets.
method Agent-based model with rational households and trend-following behavior.
result Model accurately predicts price variability and herding behavior.
New approach predicts commuters' flow with 90.4% accuracy.
problem Limited ability to predict and reconstruct commuters' networks.
method Machine learning and 22 urban indicators.
result Predictions with 90.4% accuracy and 77.6% variance explained.
Study proposes new methods to calculate probabilistic benchmarks in noisy data.
problem Identifying opportunities for improvement in comparable units with noisy data.
method 2-step methodology involving undersampling and relevance vector machine.
result Higher discrimination power achieved with macro-economic environment variables.
Deep-MAPS uses machine learning for mobile air pollution sensing in Beijing.
problem Ubiquitous sensing of urban air quality.
method Machine learning framework (Deep-MAPS) based on mobile and fixed sensors.
result Deep-MAPS achieves high spatial-temporal resolution (1km-by-1km and 1 hour) with over 85% accuracy.
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 …
Machine learning predicts air quality in urban areas.
problem Data sparsity and missing labels in air quality monitoring datasets.
method A machine learning-based method using a neural network enhanced with NARX for time series prediction.
result The proposed method accurately predicts Air Quality Index (AQI) with robust performance across different urban areas.
In statistical physics, the conservation of particle number results in the equalization of the chemical potential throughout a system at equilibrium. In contrast, the homogeneity of utility in socio-economic models is usually thought to rely on the competition between individuals, leading to Nash equilibrium. We show t…
Developing a scientific understanding of cities in a fast urbanizing world is essential for planning sustainable urban systems. Recently, it was shown that income and wealth creation follow increasing returns, scaling superlinearly with city size. We study scaling of per capita incomes for separate census defined incom…
New approach predicts crime and terrorism events with high accuracy and transparency.
problem Predicting crime and terrorism events with high accuracy and interpretability.
method Granger Network inference for local transport rules learning.
result Achieved AUC of ~90% for crime predictions and ~80% for terrorism predictions.
Isobenefit Lines can offer a certain range of applicability in Location Theory and Gravitational Models for Urban and Geography Economics, in positional decision processes made by citizens, and, last but not least, in land value and property market theories and analysis. The value of a land, or a property, in a generic…
We study an agent-based model of evolution of wealth distribution in a macro-economic system. The evolution is driven by multiplicative stochastic fluctuations governed by the law of proportionate growth and interactions between agents. We are mainly interested in interactions increasing wealth inequality that is in a …
VAE models generate urban street networks from data.
problem Quantitative description of urban patterns.
method Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) for urban street network data.
result VAEs can capture urban network metrics and generate new urban forms.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Proposes a model to understand urban dynamics from mega-metropolises.
problem Understanding residents mobility patterns in mega-metropolises.
method Neighbor-Regularized and context-aware Non-negative Tensor Factorization (NR-cNTF).
result NR-cNTF accurately captures city rhythms and spatial communities.
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…
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.
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.
Macroeconomic theories of growth and wealth distribution have an outsized influence on national and international social and economic policies. Yet, due to a relative lack of reliable, system wide data, many such theories remain, at best, unvalidated and, at worst, misleading. In this paper, we introduce a novel econom…
Paper explores multimodal methods for detecting urban micro-events.
problem Detecting urban micro-events in cities with limited geographical coverage.
method Exploring multimodal fusion methods including early, late, hybrid fusion and representation learning.
result Multimodal approach yields higher performance than unimodal alternatives.
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.
Framework classifies urban congestion into recurrent and non-recurrent types.
problem Classifying urban congestion into recurrent and non-recurrent types.
method Real-time distributed classification using VANET on a heterogeneous urban road network.
result Predictive accuracy of 89.17% for the boosting technique.
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.
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.
Proposes ANN for more accurate path loss prediction in urban environments.
problem Inaccurate path loss prediction in complex urban environments.
method Artificial Neural Network (ANN) for multi-dimensional regression modeling of path loss.
result The proposed ANN model is more accurate and flexible than conventional linear models.
New models predict mobility flows as well as complex machine learning but are simpler and interpretable.
problem Incomplete understanding and modeling of human mobility flows.
method Developed simple machine-learned, closed-form models of mobility.
result These models predict mobility flows more accurately than gravity or complex machine/deep learning models.
While it is believed that denoising is not always necessary in many big data applications, we show in this paper that denoising is helpful in urban traffic analysis by applying the method of bounded total variation denoising to the urban road traffic prediction and clustering problem. We propose two easy-to-implement m…