arXiv:2608. 14663v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As global populations age, enhancing neighborhood walkability through inclusive urban design is important for mitigating built environment (BE) barriers that discourage physical activity and social participation among older adults.
By Houhao Liang, Kresimir Friganovic, Joanne Kua, Noor Hafizah Ismail, Su Su, Bryan Yijia Tan, Navrag B. Singh, Panos Mavros
arXiv:2608. 00815v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The 15-minute city promotes access to everyday services within a short walk or bicycle ride, but its relationship with observed mobility remains difficult to quantify.
By Andr\'as J. Moln\'aar, Csaba I. Sidl\'o, Rita R\'onai, Domonkos R\'ozsay
arXiv:2608. 16897v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large-scale urban simulation plays a pivotal role in social science, traffic safety, and transportation policy.
By Nicolas Bougie, Xiaotong Ye, Narimasa Watanabe
arXiv:2606. 15890v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Understanding urban wellbeing from multimodal data requires integrating heterogeneous spatial and temporal signals, posing significant challenges for current multimodal large language models (MLLMs).
By Yanxin Xi, Xiang Su, Jie Feng, Yu Liu, Sasu Tarkoma, Pan Hui
arXiv:2510. 06473v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Understanding and modeling human mobility is central to challenges in transport planning, sustainable urban design, and public health.
By Ye Hong, Yatao Zhang, Konrad Schindler, Martin Raubal
arXiv:2602. 04525v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Rapid urban expansion has fueled the growth of informal settlements in major cities of low- and middle-income countries, with Lahore and Karachi in Pakistan and Mumbai in India serving as prominent examples.
By Muhammad Taha Mukhtar, Syed Musa Ali Kazmi, Khola Naseem, Muhammad Ali Chattha, Andreas Dengel, Sheraz Ahmed, Muhammad Naseer Bajwa, Muhammad Imran Malik
arXiv:2504. 04739v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Understanding how social, demographic, environmental, and spatial factors jointly shape urban outcomes is essential for sustainable urban development and evidence-based policy.
By Minwei Zhao, Sanja Scepanovic, Stephen Law, Ivica Obadic, Cai Wu, Daniele Quercia
arXiv:2405. 17468v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Human mobility plays a crucial role in transportation, urban planning, and public health, but current approaches face important limitations.
By Xishun Liao, Qinhua Jiang, Brian Yueshuai He, Yifan Liu, Chenchen Kuai, Jiaqi Ma
arXiv:2607. 17437v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language model (LLM) agents offer a generative approach to simulating human behavior under conditions that may have few or no direct historical analogues, a common challenge in disaster and infrastructure-disruption planning.
By Chen Xia, Zexi Kuang, Yuqing Hu
arXiv:2606. 06174v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Childhood asthma is a common illness exacerbated by air pollution as well as meteorological and neighborhood-level socioeconomic factors.
By Jonathan Colen, Eric Werner, Maryam Golbazi, Heather Richter, Diana McSpadden, Amy Quinn, Jocel Santos, Mary Jane Darling, Mary Margaret Gleason
arXiv:2606. 16023v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Human mobility appears highly diverse, yet much of a person's daily mobility can be explained by a small set of recurring behavioral templates, such as commuting, school-centered activities, caregiving, nightlife, or errand patterns.
By Bita Azarijoo, John Krumm, Cyrus Shahabi
arXiv:2606. 28390v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Geospatial vector data quality is a foundational research topic in GIS, yet classic rule-based quality assessment algorithms often struggle with diverse urban morphologies and massive data volumes.
By Hao Li, Chen Chu, Filip Biljecki, Cyrus Shahabi, Wenwen Li