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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)
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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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 November 22, 2024 December 8, 2024 (AoE)
Notification of Workshop Papers Acceptance December 9, 2024 December 19, 2024 (AoE)
Workshop Date March 3, 2025

Organizing Committee

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Pengyang Wang

University of Macau
pywang@um.edu.mo

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Steven Jige Quan

Seoul National University
sjquan@snu.ac.kr

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Dongjie Wang

University of Kansas
wangdongjie100@gmail.com

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Pengfei Wang

Chinese Academy of Sciences
pfwang@cnic.cn

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Yanjie Fu

Arizona State University
yanjie.fu@asu.edu

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Xinyue Ye

Texas A&M University
xinyue.ye@tamu.edu

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Hui Xiong

Hong Kong University of
Science and Technology

xionghui@hkust-gz.edu.cn


Volunteers

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Jianpeng Zhao

University of Macau
Ph.D Student

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Qi Hao

University of Macau
Ph.D Student

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Yunhe Zhang

University of Macau
Ph.D Student

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Haihua Xu

University of Macau
Ph.D Student