Speaker: Jeffrey Kok Hui Chan, PhD | Assistant Professor at Singapore University of Technology and Design Time: October 6th, 2023, 12:00 – 12:30 PM (CST) Zoom Link: https://utexas.zoom.us/j/91425104430 Abstract: To do good, design ideas are often congealed in a form—a deliberate configuration that is material or immaterial, tangible or intangible—that… read more
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AI and Planning
Speaker: Tom Sanchez, PhD | Professor of Urban Affairs and Planning at Virginia Tech Time: September 22, 2023, 2:00 – 2:30 PM (CST) Zoom Link: https://utexas.zoom.us/j/91425104430 Abstract: Interest in AI has exploded since the release of platforms like ChatGPT providing mainstream access to powerful content-generation capabilities. In this talk, I… read more
Real-Time Forecasting of Dockless Scooter-Sharing Demand: A Spatio-Temporal Multi-Graph Transformer Approach
Speaker: Yiming Xu, PhD | Postdoctoral Fellow | School of Architecture, UT Time: September 8, 2023, 2:00 – 2:30 PM (CST) Zoom Link: https://utexas.zoom.us/j/91425104430 Abstract: Accurately forecasting the real-time travel demand for dockless scooter-sharing is crucial for the planning and operations of transportation systems. This study proposes a novel deep… read more
Heat risk mapping: A non-parametric multivariate approach
Speaker: Naveen Sudharsan, PhD | Postdoctoral Fellow | Jackson School of Geosciences Time: August 25, 2023, 2:00 – 2:30 PM (CST) Zoom Link: https://utexas.zoom.us/j/98848018679 Abstract: Persistent changes in the climate have amplified the strength and occurrence rate of unusual weather events, temperature fluctuations, natural disasters, and the resulting destruction they… read more
Smart Cities and Generative AI Symposium
The Smart Cities and Generative AI Symposium is a day-long gathering of interdisciplinary professionals across academia and industry to inform, examine, and discuss how generative artificial intelligence impacts our cities. Happening at the Texas Advanced Computing Center in Austin, Texas, this robust program will feature presenters from multiple universities across… read more
Making the most out of sparse data: the case of travel demand calibration
Urban traffic simulators are used by cities worldwide to inform their transportation planning and operations. We discuss the main challenges in the calibration of inputs for stochastic microscopic urban traffic simulators. In particular, we focus on the calibration of travel demand or origin-destination matrices (ODs). The problem is underdetermined, we… read more
Making the most out of sparse data: the case of travel demand calibration
Urban traffic simulators are used by cities worldwide to inform their transportation planning and operations. We discuss the main challenges in the calibration of inputs for stochastic microscopic urban traffic simulators. In particular, we focus on the calibration of travel demand or origin-destination matrices (ODs). The problem is underdetermined, we… read more
An Intersectional Take on the Future of Mobility
Urban life has been increasingly grounded in mobilities as technological advances induce faster, cheaper, and more seamless mobility options. However, people’s experiences of such advances are shaped by their race, gender, class, other socially constructed dimensions, and the intersections of these dimensions. Despite the growing popularity of intersectionality lens, quantitative… read more
An Intersectional Take on the Future of Mobility
Urban life has been increasingly grounded in mobilities as technological advances induce faster, cheaper, and more seamless mobility options. However, people’s experiences of such advances are shaped by their race, gender, class, other socially constructed dimensions, and the intersections of these dimensions. Despite the growing popularity of intersectionality lens, quantitative… read more
The Impact of Commercial District’s Vitality on Cognitive Decline: What Computer Vision and Deep Learning Can Find
The decline in commercial districts in Seoul, South Korea, is worsening because of excessive competition among the self-employed, COVID-19, and a decrease in offline consumption. Assessment of this decline is the first step in presenting strategies for the revitalization of commercial districts. This study explored whether cognitive decline can be… read more
