Urban AI 2026

Agenda

Room RC C, Riverside Convention Center, Riverside, California, Nov 3rd, 2026. The outline below covers the accepted papers and is subject to change.

StartEndSessionPaper IDPaper typePaper title / activityAuthors (not confirmed speakers)
9:00 AM9:10 AMOpening remarks
9:10 AM9:25 AMSession I — Urban Traffic and Transport Analytics6full paperAdapting a Large Language Model Crash-Severity Pipeline to Tennessee: Performance Across Sampling StrategiesAbhilasha Saroj, Pranav Govindu, Bharat Sharma, Usman Ahmed
9:25 AM9:40 AMSession I — Urban Traffic and Transport Analytics8short paperScalable Origin-Destination Travel Time Estimation via Landmark Approximation and Neural Residual CorrectionJoon-Seok Kim, Lina Li, Jooyoung Yoo, Kiara Ha, Parker Wischhover, Hossein Amiri, Taozhi Chen, Andreas Züfle
9:40 AM9:55 AMSession I — Urban Traffic and Transport Analytics15full paperHigh-Resolution Citywide Traffic Speed Estimation from Bus Probes Observations with a Gated Dual-Branch GCNNBahare Salehi, Mahmoud Sakr
9:55 AM10:10 AMSession I — Urban Traffic and Transport Analytics16short paperCausal Machine Learning Analysis of How Ride-Hailing Uses Electric vs. Gasoline VehiclesXiaokang Chen, Wenbo Zhang, Yongqi Zhang, Tianqi Gu, Zhuo Chen
10:10 AM10:25 AMSession I — Urban Traffic and Transport Analytics25full paperIllegal Parking Prediction with Street-View Visual Semantics and Spatio-Temporal Graph LearningSeohyeon Yoon, Youngok Kang
10:25 AM10:40 AMMorning coffee break
10:40 AM10:55 AMSession II — Urban Mobility, Navigation and Digital Twins18full paperConstraint-Guaranteed Discrete Diffusion for the Completion of Urban ItinerariesI-No Chu, Yi-Chung Chen, Chang-Hung Shih, Chee-Hoe Loh
10:55 AM11:10 AMSession II — Urban Mobility, Navigation and Digital Twins31short paperLearning Direction-Aware Metro Demand Graphs from Floor-Level Building SemanticsHyunji Kim, Jina Kim, Eunil Park, Yao-Yi Chiang
11:10 AM11:25 AMSession II — Urban Mobility, Navigation and Digital Twins32full paperBarometric-Assisted Real-Time Map Matching at Multilevel VenuesXinyu Zhang, James Murphy
11:25 AM11:40 AMSession II — Urban Mobility, Navigation and Digital Twins30full paperSimulation-Driven Vehicular Traffic Data Augmentation Through Virtual SensingDavide Guastella, Eladio Montero-Porras, Evangelos Pournaras, Gianluca Bontempi
11:40 AM11:50 AMSession II — Urban Mobility, Navigation and Digital Twins35extended abstractLiving Urban Digital Twins: Agentic and Neuro-Symbolic AI for Semantic 3D City ModelingLukas Arzoumanidis, Nicole Schneider, Huynh Nguyen, Hanan Samet, Youness Dehbi
11:50 AM1:30 PMLunch break
1:30 PM1:45 PMSession III — Urban Governance, Planning and Spatial Data40short paperFrom Regional Mobility Demand to Downtown Traffic: Data-Grounding and Conversational Analytics for Urban SimulationFlavia Sparacino
1:45 PM2:00 PMSession III — Urban Governance, Planning and Spatial Data13full paperUrbanAdmit: An Evidence-to-Action Governance Framework for Urban AIUday Kanagala
2:00 PM2:15 PMSession III — Urban Governance, Planning and Spatial Data33short paperBeyond the City-Wide Score: Disaggregating GeoAI Building Footprint Accuracy by Urban FormCapucine Riom, Isabelle Tingzon, Caroline Gevaert, Abhas Jha, Edward Anderson
2:15 PM2:30 PMSession III — Urban Governance, Planning and Spatial Data29full paperFreeze, Validate, Report: Auditing Urban Station Plans with Common EvidenceJulian Teusch, Oliver Keszöcze
2:30 PM2:45 PMSession III — Urban Governance, Planning and Spatial Data38full paperAI for Urban Buildability: An Atlanta Zoning Case Study on Where Citation-Bound Verification FailsSam Duong, Ingeborg Rocker
2:45 PM3:00 PMAfternoon coffee break
3:00 PM3:15 PMSession IV — Urban Resilience, Infrastructure and Emerging AI22full paperSpatial Suitability and Agentic AI Framework for Floating Nuclear Power Plants in the Northeastern U.S.Saim Joardder, Marc Fialkoff, Melissa Dumas
3:15 PM3:30 PMSession IV — Urban Resilience, Infrastructure and Emerging AI28short paperA Scalable AI Platform for Hyperlocal Urban Heat MappingXiaojiang Li
3:30 PM3:45 PMSession IV — Urban Resilience, Infrastructure and Emerging AI14full paperSpatially transferable reinforcement learning for on-demand drone delivery dispatching and repositioningLuyun Zhao, Kaihang Zhang, Zhan Zhao
3:45 PM4:00 PMSession IV — Urban Resilience, Infrastructure and Emerging AI36short paperToward Emotion Deepfake Detection for Urban Emergency Communications: A Multi-Representation Study on EmoFakeKayode Oyeniran, Haoran Niu, Yang Chen, Christin Salley, Olufemi Omitaomu
4:00 PM4:15 PMSession IV — Urban Resilience, Infrastructure and Emerging AI37full paperMunicipal Housing Condition Assessment Automation Using Deep LearningAnneka Singh, Aditya Balu, Anuprit Minhas, Baskar Ganapathysubramanian
4:15 PM4:25 PMSession IV — Urban Resilience, Infrastructure and Emerging AI24extended abstractCoupling AI and Physics-based Models for Climate Risk: An Urban Flood PerspectiveYingqiang Xu, Hiba Baroud
4:25 PM4:30 PMClosing remarks