UTP-Bench is a new benchmark for uncertainty-aware travel planning that evaluates large language models on their ability to generate robust itineraries under real-world stochastic conditions. The dataset covers 504 Indian cities, incorporating attractions, restaurants, accommodations, and multi-modal transportation networks, and includes empirical delay distributions and crowd-density patterns to simulate realistic disruptions. Three new metrics—Buffer Adequacy Score, Crowd-Aware Timing Score, and Transport Delay Absorption Score—measure how well generated plans maintain robustness against transit delays and crowd variability, revealing significant gaps between state-of-the-art LLMs and human-authored itineraries.
By Etcharla Revanth Rao, Priyanshu Karmakar, Shubhojit Mallick, Manish Gupta, Shreya Ghosh, Abhik Jana
arXiv:2606. 01046v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The development of Large Language Models (LLMs) has significantly improved travel planning applications, yet evaluating such models is limited by existing benchmarks' limitations: 1) overemphasis on constraint compliance, neglecting multi-dimensional qualities like spatio-temporal cost; 2) datasets lacking real-world authenticity and coverage in key areas (e.
By Weiyi Chen, Shuaixiong Wang, Ziyun Gao, Kaichun Hu, Wangze Ni, Shimin Di, Chen Jason Zhang, Lei Chen
CALM is a reproducible hybrid framework that combines an optional large language model (LLM) activity planner with calibrated stochastic choice, shared network feedback, memory and habit, typed feasibility checks, and deterministic offline replay. It executes a closed traveler‑day loop and evaluates each generative module against an empirical, reproducible baseline, using the 2024 New York City Citywide Mobility Survey data. The framework demonstrates significant improvements in mode‑choice accuracy, quantifies trade‑offs through live‑LLM ablation, and supports controlled stress testing and deterministic replay of downstream simulations.
By Yezhou Cheng
arXiv:2605.25200v3 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Travel planning in the real world is overwhelmingly a \textit{group} activity, yet existing LLM travel-planning benchmarks reduce it to a single us...
By Xiang Cheng, Yulan Hu, Lulu Zheng, Xiangwen Zhang, Zheng Pan, Xin Li, Yong Liu
arXiv:2607. 15552v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Generating personalized trip itineraries is a complex planning task and involves a tension between hard combinatorial feasibility and soft latent desirability.
By Himel Dev, Tanmoy Sen, Madhusudan Basak, Bashima Islam
arXiv:2608.30924v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Travel itinerary generation requires balancing strict spatio-temporal constraints with human preferences. Existing LLM-based planners mainly rely on st...
By Priyanshu Karmakar, Borru Vijay Sai, Shubhojit Mallick, Abhik Jana, Shreya Ghosh, Manish Gupta
arXiv:2607. 10651v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In large urban areas, planning multi-day travel itineraries is challenging due to the abundance of Points of Interest (POIs), diverse user preferences, and constraints such as opening hours.
By Rongbo Qi, Yaqi Zhang, Shijun Yan, Xuemeng Liu, Xiangrui Cai, Chunyao Song
arXiv:2509.09710v3 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: This study introduces a Large Language Model (LLM) scheme for generating key attributes of travel diaries in agent-based transportation model...
By Sepehr Golrokh Amin, Devin Rhoads, Fatemeh Fakhrmoosavi, Nicholas E. Lownes, John N. Ivan
arXiv:2606. 12657v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Human mobility data is important for transportation, urban planning, and epidemic control, but large-scale trajectory collection is often costly and privacy-constrained, motivating realistic synthetic trajectory generation.
By Siyu Li, Toan Tran, Lingyi Zhao, Khurram Shafique, Li Xiong
arXiv:2606. 02287v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Urban trajectory generation is a fundamental task for transportation simulation, urban planning, and mobility analytics.
By Shibo Zhu, Xiaodan Shi, Dayin Chen, Yuntian Chen, Haoran Zhang, Tianhao Wu, Jinyue Yan
The paper demonstrates that fine‑tuning large language models (LLMs) on local tourist trajectory data can predict visitor movements under varying conditions. Using 566 trajectories from Wakayama Castle Park, Japan, the authors fine‑tuned Llama‑3.1‑8B, achieving 49.1% accuracy for next point‑of‑interest predictions and maintaining strong performance even on undersampled scenarios such as rainy days. This shows that LLMs can serve as high‑fidelity, context‑aware behavior models for tourist prediction and enable counterfactual analysis of mobility interventions.
By Tatsuya Amano, Hirozumi Yamaguchi
arXiv:2608. 19778v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Pedestrian simulators need a behaviour rule for every agent, but privacy usually limits the data for setting one to aggregate statistics, namely zone-level device counts and origin-to-destination (OD) flows, with no individual trajectories.
By Tatsuya Amano, Hirozumi Yamaguchi