2026-08-20

7 arXiv categories· 96 journals· 2391 candidates — 2 worth your time· 100 without an open abstract

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nothing cleared the headline bar today — the day's papers are below

Today, together

tag shift
no tag ran above its 30-day average
on the same shoulders
5 of the day's papers cite Travel and the Built Environment (Reid Ewing, Robert Cervero 2010) counted over the 84 of this day's 102 named papers whose reference lists we have — standing on the same older work is not the same as being about the same thing
first appearance
no institution here was new to the last 69 days none of them on a paper we published in the 69 days before this issue

Two counts, not one counted twice: every row here but “on the same shoulders” counts the papers published above, and that one counts every paper this day named — those and the ones under Also published today, whose abstracts we could not read.

preprint

Toni Seibold, Luna Lütz, Tom Brown
arXiv physics.soc-ph

Integrated Energy Systems Optimization · Carbon Dioxide Capture Technologies · Environmental Impact and Sustainability · Netherlands

Exploring Initial CO2 Transport Topologies for Germany's Carbon Management

This study combines graph-theoretic topology generation with a sector-coupled energy system model to evaluate 60 candidate CO2 transport networks for Germany in 2035. The analysis shows that establishing a domestic CO2 pipeline network reduces annual consumer costs by approximately 22 billion Euros compared to a no-pipeline scenario. The model reveals that a short 500 km pipeline connecting the industrial North Rhine-Westphalia region to Dutch sinks captures the majority of the economic benefits compared to a longer 1500 km network.

Why it matters — It demonstrates that the economic value of carbon transport infrastructure is concentrated in connecting major industrial source regions to international sinks, meaning planners can achieve most of the cost savings with a minimal 500 km footprint that avoids long-term infrastructure lock-in.

Caveat: The findings are based on a sector-coupled energy system model projecting to the year 2035, meaning the cost-benefit calculations depend heavily on the model's underlying assumptions about future industrial emissions and international sink availability.

arXiv · pdf

preprint

Farbod Abbasi, Zachary Patterson, Bilal Farooq
arXiv cs.LG

Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis · Transportation and Mobility Innovations · Traffic Prediction and Management Techniques · transformer

Feasible and Novel Synthetic Population Generation with Tabular and Sequential Travel Attributes

A regularized two-stage generative framework was developed to synthesize populations with both static tabular socio-demographics and sequential travel attributes. Stage 1 uses a Wasserstein GAN with gradient penalty augmented by three regularization terms to improve tabular synthesis, while Stage 2 employs Transformer and LSTM-Attention models to generate trip chains conditioned on those profiles. Tested on survey data, the regularized models improved feasibility by 2.1 to 3.7 percentage points, novelty by 6.6 to 10.0 percentage points, and sequential F1 scores up to 90.6% compared to baseline models.

Why it matters — The framework successfully recovers valid but unobserved attribute combinations (sampling zeros) while preventing the generation of logically impossible combinations (structural zeros), a persistent trade-off in activity-based travel demand modeling.

arXiv · pdf

Also published today

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