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Large Language Model Assisted Transportation Planning through a Differentiable User Equilibrium Layer

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arXiv AI
Aug 19

CityReal: Human-Aligned Urban Behavior and City Dynamics Simulation with Large-Scale LLM Agents

CityReal is a modular framework that uses large language model agents to simulate human-aligned urban behavior. It models agents as intention-driven decision makers who pursue coherent mobility and activity plans, learning habits and preferences over time. By training textual adapters to align agent decisions with observed population statistics, CityReal improves realism at both micro and macro levels and can scale to tens of thousands of agents for analyzing crowd density, place popularity, mobility flows, and well‑being under various urban scenarios.

By Nicolas Bougie, Xiaotong Ye, Narimasa Watanabe
arXiv AI
Jul 2

Flow-Through Tensors: A Unified Computational Graph Architecture for Multi-Layer Transportation Network Optimization

arXiv:2507. 02961v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Modern transportation network modeling increasingly involves the integration of diverse methodologies including sensor-based forecasting, reinforcement learning, classical flow optimization, and demand modeling that have traditionally been developed in isolation.

By Xuesong Zhou, Taehooie Kim, Mostafa Ameli, Henan Zhu, Yudai Honma, Ram M. Pendyala
arXiv AI
Oct 19

Towards Adaptive and Real-Survey-Aligned Simulated Urban Mobility Behaviour of Generative Agents

The paper presents an agent‑based model of daily multimodal mobility in Toulouse, comparing fifteen decision‑making approaches—including generative agents (GAs) with minimal and tuned prompts, simple baselines, survey‑fitted models, and a typed classifier—against real household travel survey data. Results show that GAs with tuned prompts approximate the modal split of a simulated day without disruptions but fall short on trip‑by‑trip accuracy, while the Jev‑1.13 TypeSafe classifier performs surprisingly well, indicating that generating output text is not essential. The study highlights the potential and current limitations of generative agent‑based modelling for urban mobility.

By Yves Bru, Kamaldeep Singh Oberoi, Benoit Gaudou
arXiv AI
Jun 2

Large Language Models in Transportation Systems Management and Operations: From Text Reasoning to Multi-modal Decision Support

arXiv:2606. 00991v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Transportation systems management and operations (TSMO) increasingly depends on timely interpretation of heterogeneous data, from various sensor streams, incident reports, traveler feedback, and visual observations.

By Siyan Li, Zehao Wang, Jiachen Li, Kanok Boriboonsomsin, Matthew J. Barth, Guoyuan Wu
arXiv AI
Oct 5

LLM-Guided Reinforcement Learning with Representative Agents for Traffic Modeling

The paper proposes a scalable traffic modeling approach that uses a single representative large language model (LLM) agent for each homogeneous traveler group, rather than one LLM per traveler. The representative agent maintains a mixed strategy over routes, updates it daily based on positive reinforcement signals, and uses a tunable step size to adjust its strategy. This design improves scalability, stabilizes learning, and produces interpretable dynamics that reproduce realistic behavioral patterns such as the decoy effect and income‑based willingness‑to‑pay differences.

By Hanlin Sun, Jiayang Li