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The 1st Workshop on AI for Urban Planning aims to bring together researchers, practitioners, and policymakers to explore innovative AI-driven solutions for the multifaceted challenges in urban planning. As cities face rapid urbanization and the pressing need for sustainability, there is an urgent demand for advanced strategies in better land utilization, resource optimization, infrastructure development, improved equity, data-driven policymaking, as well as the better understanding of complex interdependencies between physical and virtual spaces. This workshop will delve into the latest AI technologies to build sustainable, diverse, and human-centric cities of the future.
The workshop is held in conjunction with the 39th Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-2025), one of the world's leading AI conferences. Organized by the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, AAAI is a key platform where researchers, practitioners, and industry experts present groundbreaking advancements and explore emerging trends in AI. This partnership provides the workshop with a vital forum for interdisciplinary knowledge exchange, fostering collaboration between AI researchers, urban planners, and policymakers.
Agenda
March 3, 2025 (Location: Room 122A) | ||
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Time | Event | Speaker |
08:50-09:00 | Open Remarks | Organizers |
09:00-09:30 | Keynote 1: AI as Co-Creator: Planners and Communities Shaping Tomorrow's Cities | Zhongren Peng (University of Florida) |
09:30-10:00 | Keynote 2: Bridging AI and Urban Planning: My Journey Towards Smarter, More Sustainable Cities(Slides) | Yanjie Fu (Arizona State University) |
10:00-10:20 | Poster Session 1 | |
10:20-10:30 | Paper Presentation 1: Integrating Human Dynamics into AI-Driven GeoDesign for Sustainable Urban Futures (Slides) | Xinyue Ye (Texas A&M) |
10:30-10:40 | Paper Presentation 2: Mining E-scooter Safety Policies and Plans with GPT-4o and Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) Topic Modeling (Slides) | Ming Zhang (UT Austin) |
10:40-10:50 | Paper Presentation 3: Exploring Commuting Inequalities through Inferential Machine Learning; Lessons for Spatial Mismatch Hypothesis (Slides) | Qisheng Pan (UT Arlington) |
10:50-11:00 | Paper Presentation 4: Multi-Class Classification of Urban Regeneration Using a Siamese Network: An Analysis with Real-World Data from Portland, Oregon | Yang Yang (UNC Chapel Hill) |
11:00-11:10 | Paper Presentation 5: LLM-ABM for Transportation: Assessing the Potential of LLM Agents in System Analysis | Tianming Liu (UMich) |
11:10-11:20 | Paper Presentation 6: Predicting Estimated Times of Restoration for Electrical Outages Using Longitudinal Tabular Transformers | Sai Prasanna Teja Reddy Bogireddy (Exelon) |
11:20-11:40 | Poster Session 2 | |
11:40-12:10 | Panel Discussion | Invited Speakers |
12:10-12:15 | Closing Remarks | Organizers |
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Posters
Topics of Interest
We encourage submissions on a broad range of topics related to AI in urban planning, including but not limited to:
- Representation and Quantification of Urban Environments
- Representation learning for spatio-temporal data
- Multimodal data fusion
- Graph neural networks in urban form representation
- Domain shift and generalization in urban data
- Human dynamics for urban planning
- Reconceptualizing human behavior using AI models
- Human-robot/AI interactions
- Exploring human dynamics beyond physical spaces through AI and virtual environments
- Predictive Modeling and Forecasting
- Urban time series forecasting
- Spatio-temporal forecasting (e.g., energy, traffic, crowd flow)
- Demographic and climate modeling
- Generative Modeling and Large AI Models for Urban Planning
- Urban form and land use configuration
- Transportation system design
- Architecture and landscape design
- Evaluation and Simulation
- Reinforcement learning-powered simulations
- LLM agents for evaluation and stakeholder role-play
- Human-in-the-loop simulation
- Ethics and Fairness in AI for Urban Planning
- Fairness, bias, transparency, and accountability
- Community engagement and data privacy
- Applications, Systems, and Tools
- Urban digital twins, AR/VR in urban planning
- Planning support systems for policymakers
- Carbon neutrality and utility/resource allocation
Important Dates
Workshop Call for Papers | September 30, 2024 |
Workshop Paper Submission |
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Notification of Workshop Papers Acceptance |
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Workshop Date | March 3, 2025 |
Organizing Committee
Pengyang Wang
University of Macau
pywang@um.edu.mo
Steven Jige Quan
Seoul National University
sjquan@snu.ac.kr
Dongjie Wang
University of Kansas
wangdongjie100@gmail.com
Pengfei Wang
Chinese Academy of Sciences
pfwang@cnic.cn
Yanjie Fu
Arizona State University
yanjie.fu@asu.edu
Xinyue Ye
Texas A&M University
xinyue.ye@tamu.edu
Hui Xiong
Hong Kong University of
Science and Technology
xionghui@hkust-gz.edu.cn
Volunteers
Jianpeng Zhao
University of Macau
Ph.D Student
Qi Hao
University of Macau
Ph.D Student
Yunhe Zhang
University of Macau
Ph.D Student
Haihua Xu
University of Macau
Ph.D Student