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AI Agents for Human Mobility in Healthy & Sustainable Cities
Dr. Qiumeng Li will lead an online training session on how AI agents can support healthier, more sustainable urban mobility on September 29, 2026.
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UMEP Lab
Urban Mobility and Environmental Perception Laboratory
Our lab builds on AI-driven modeling technologies, spatial big-data analysis, and human-centered agent design, with a strong focus on urban mobility, environmental perception, and spatial cognition. Through these efforts, we aim to continuously advance sustainable urban and rural development, smart transportation governance, and mobility equity.
Our lab’s research focuses on interdisciplinary areas including human mobility, urban science, cognitive maps, built environment perception, AI agents for urban mobility, and serious games. Our agent frameworks integrate LLM agents, reinforcement learning, and rule-based multi-agent simulation to explore the complex interactions among human behavior, the built environment, and environmental sustainability.
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From Narrative to Action: A Hierarchical Large Language Model Agent Framework for Interpretable and Adaptive Human Mobility Behavior
Accepted by Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, the study presents a hierarchical cognitive framework in which LLM agents generate interpretable and adaptive human mobility behavior across multiple decision levels.
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LLM-enhanced agent-based modeling for mobility-based heat exposure assessment during mega events
Accepted by SIGSPATIAL 2026, this study proposes an LLM-enhanced agent-based framework linking human mobility with the thermal environment to anticipate dynamic heat exposure during mega events.
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Exploring Meituan's Drone Delivery Operations in Hong Kong
UMEP Lab member Pei Sun joined a visit to Meituan's drone delivery operations in Hong Kong, exploring live service workflows, collection points, and dispatch coordination.
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UMEP Lab Wins Third Prize at Urban Cup Finals
The lab won 3rd prize at the Urban Cup agent finals in Bali, following a 1st-place finish in Track 2 of the preliminaries with our mobility agent.
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Future City Lab Visit
Students visited the Future City Lab at the Guangzhou Urban Planning & Design Institute on Mar 4 to explore real-world uses of spatiotemporal big data in urban research.
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Guangzhou Urban Planning & Design Survey Research Institute Visits UMEP Lab
Discussions covered transport equity, travel resilience, and micromobility’s link to the built environment, while exploring future collaboration.
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