2026-08-24

7 arXiv categories· 96 journals· 1868 candidates — 2 worth your time· 91 without an open abstract

Headline

Industrial quality of life indexing, and agent-level epidemic policy simulation

Today, together

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4 of the day's papers cite Travel and the Built Environment (Reid Ewing, Robert Cervero 2010) counted over the 91 of this day's 93 named papers whose reference lists we have — standing on the same older work is not the same as being about the same thing
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no institution here was new to the last 73 days none of them on a paper we published in the 73 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.

published: Discover Cities

Sharmistha Mondal, Kapil Kumar Gavsker, Bhaskar Mandal
Discover Cities

Banaras Hindu University

Urban Transport and Accessibility · Land Use and Ecosystem Services · Remote-Sensing Image Classification · census data · Banaras Hindu University

Evaluating quality of life in rapidly urbanizing industrial region of Eastern India utilizing census and geospatial data driven approaches for urban sustainability

This study evaluated neighborhood-level urban quality of life across the rapidly urbanizing Asansol-Kulti-Jamuria-Raniganj industrial region in Eastern India using 40 indicators across five domains. Researchers developed a quality of life index by combining subjective Fuzzy Analytical Hierarchy Process (FAHP) and objective Criteria Importance Through Intercriteria Correlation (CRITIC) methods, ranking neighborhoods with TOPSIS. The analysis revealed that approximately 60% of the region falls into low or very low quality of life categories, with the FAHP-derived index demonstrating superior predictive performance (AUC of 0.868) over the CRITIC model.

Why it matters — The study establishes a robust, spatially explicit methodology for measuring quality of life in rapidly expanding industrial agglomerations, which are frequently neglected in urban assessments compared to major metropolitan centers.

Caveat: The evaluation relies on a specific set of 40 indicators that may not capture all localized socio-economic dynamics or informal settlement conditions in the industrial region.

Discover Cities · pdf · doi

preprint

Yun Ye, Arsalan Dezhkam, Junyuan Liu, et al.
arXiv cs.CY

COVID-19 epidemiological studies · Urban Transport and Accessibility · Evacuation and Crowd Dynamics · Singapore

From Urban Mobility to Epidemic Dynamics: A Mixture-of-Experts Framework with Preference Alignment for Policy Scenario Simulation

The researchers developed UrbanShare-MoE-PA, an agent-level simulation framework that translates non-pharmaceutical intervention (NPI) calendars into daily time-allocation, point-of-interest (POI) category, and travel-mode choices. Tested on longitudinal data from 911 agents in Singapore tracked between March and August 2020, the model propagates these behavioral shifts through a calibrated SEIR epidemic simulator to evaluate four alternative lockdown scenarios.

Why it matters — It provides a method to simulate epidemic outcomes based on how policies actually alter individual behavioral choices and time allocation, rather than assuming uniform, aggregate reductions in mobility.

Caveat: The framework's behavioral parameters and epidemic simulations are calibrated using a small sample of 911 agents within a single city-state during the initial 2020 COVID-19 wave.

arXiv · pdf

Still cited

D. Diakoulaki, George Mavrotas (1995), Determining objective weights in multiple criteria problems: The critic method 1 of today's items cite it · 10 of 3240 in the archive stand on it

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