Our Focus
How will we move in the cities of tomorrow?
Transport shapes our daily lives, but it also creates challenges: congestion, emissions, and inequalities in access. On top of this, the future is uncertain—with new technologies, changing behaviors, and unexpected events like pandemics or energy crises. How can we design transport systems that remain sustainable, reliable, and fair under such conditions?
At the Mobility Informatics Lab (MIL), we develop computing methods that integrate data, AI, digital twins, and system modeling to design transport systems that are sustainable, reliable, and fair under such uncertainties.
🔬 Our Research Directions
LLMs & Knowledge Graphs for Scientific Discovery and DMDU
We explore how Large Language Models (LLMs) and Knowledge Graphs (KGs) can advance transport research and planning. Our work focuses on scientific discovery, causal reasoning, and adaptive planning under deep uncertainties, enabling new ways to understand mobility behavior and design policy interventions.
Key topics: travel behavior modeling with LLMs, transdisciplinary knowledge graphs, adaptive planning under deep uncertainty.
Digital Twins for Transport Systems
We develop Digital Twin (DT) frameworks to enable real-time monitoring, forecasting, and control of transport networks. By integrating IoT sensing, simulation, and reinforcement learning, our research creates adaptive and scalable solutions for traffic management.
Key topics: network-level traffic control, multi-agent reinforcement learning, IoT-enabled simulation.
Public Transport & Railway Data Analytics
We apply advanced data-driven methods to improve the performance, reliability, and sustainability of public transport and railway systems. Our research addresses both passenger experience and operational efficiency, with a focus on developing robust, evidence-based strategies for transit planning and management.
Key topics: service reliability and regularity, crowding analysis and management, operations and timetabling optimization, multimodal coordination, and planning for electrified transit fleets.
🌱 Our Vision
By combining digital twins with AI-driven knowledge discovery, we aim to build transport systems that are smarter, greener, and more resilient.