Special Sessions

Five invited special sessions organized around emerging themes in transportation and mobility. All special sessions are held on July 8 (Wed), 13:30–15:00, in parallel across Crystal Halls 1–5. Sessions 4 and 5 are closed sessions (not open to general attendees).

Special Session 1: Low-Altitude Transportation: Efficiency, Intelligence and Reliability

July 8 (Wed) 13:30–15:00 Crystal Hall 1

Chair: Prof. Xiaobo Qu, Tsinghua University

Title	Speaker / Affiliation
What Makes Low-Altitude Transportation Different? A Comparative Perspective on Traffic Management Across Modes	Xiaobo Qu Tsinghua University
A Cost-Efficiency Analysis of Drones in Revolutionizing Intra-City Express Services	Xiao Chu The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
UAM Network Planning with Speed and Transfer Decisions: The Joint Effects of Altitude Standards and Battery Gains	Di Lv Tsinghua University
Risk-Aware Route Planning for eVTOLs based on Multi-Source Risk Map Construction	Ran Zhan Tsinghua University
Learning-based Emergency Egress Trajectory Planning for UAV in Mixed Terminal Airspace	Lichen Su Tsinghua University

Special Session 2: Large Language Models and Generative AI for Intelligent Transportation Systems

July 8 (Wed) 13:30–15:00 Crystal Hall 2

Chair: Prof. Cong Zhang, Tsinghua University

Title	Speaker / Affiliation
Large Language Models as the Cognitive Core of Next-Generation Intelligent Transportation Systems	Cong Zhang Tsinghua University
MoTIF: An end-to-end Multimodal Road Traffic Scene Understanding Foundation Model	Zihe Wang Tsinghua University
Enhanced trajectory reconstruction from sparse and noisy GPS data: A progressive chunked transformer approach	Yonghui Liu KAIST
GPT-4 enhanced multimodal grounding for autonomous driving: Leveraging cross-modal attention with large language models	Chengyue Wang University of Macau
FollowGen: A scaled noise conditional diffusion model for car-following trajectory prediction	Junwei You University of Wisconsin–Madison

Special Session 3: AI-driven transport technologies & Computing and optimization for large-scale transportation systems

July 8 (Wed) 13:30–15:00 Crystal Hall 3

Chair: Prof. Zhiyuan Liu, Southeast University

Title	Speaker / Affiliation
Mean-Field Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Multi-Modal Traffic Assignment: A Two-Stage Imitation Learning Approach	Dongyue Cun Southeast University
Integrated Charging and Relocation for Shared Autonomous Electric Vehicles	Chengjie Liu Southeast University
Microcirculation Bus Route Planning for Elderly and Freight in Mountainous Areas During Rainy Weather	Zhang Kai Southeast University
EVLLM-X: An Explainable Large Language Model with Spatio-temporal Encoding for Electric Vehicle Charging Demand Prediction	Jiazhen Li Southeast University
Inter-modal airline network design and its applications	Xinyuan Southeast University

Special Session 4: Generative AI Leading Talent Cultivation Program Closed Session

July 8 (Wed) 13:30–15:00 Crystal Hall 4

Chair: Prof. Jangwoo Kwon, Inha University

Title	Speaker / Affiliation
Current Status of Physical AI Research at Lotte Innovate	Junghoon Choi Lotte Innovate
How to build a trustworthy Physical AI infra	Jieung Kim Yonsei University
Loopwise route representation-based path planning for obstacle avoidance	Jeunghoon Kim KAIST
Knowledge-Grounded Physical AI for Facility Management: An MoE-based On-Device VLN Framework	SangHyeon Lee Inha University

Special Session 5: Joint Symposium on SKKU ERC & Campus Asia Program: AI City Infrastructural Safety and Resilience Technology Closed Session

July 8 (Wed) 13:30–15:00 Crystal Hall 5

Chair: Prof. Seunghee Park, Sungkyunkwan University

Title	Speaker / Affiliation
Development of a Low-Cost Automated Monitoring System and AI Prediction Method for Chlorophyll in Reservoirs	Tomoaki ITAYAMA Nagasaki University
From Intelligent Recognition to Risk Assessment: AI-Driven Safety Technologies for Urban Infrastructure	Ran ZHANG Shandong University
Low-CO2 cements and Concrete: Emerging Technologies for Sustainable Construction	Solmoi Park Sungkyunkwan University
Ultrasound Across Scales: From Infrastructure Resilience to Human Well-being	Gun Kim Nanyang Technological University
Time-Series SAR Interferometry for Monitoring Urban Linear Infrastructure: A Framework for Large-Scale Infrastructure Health Assessment	Seong Uk Kim Gangneung–Wonju National University
Unmanned Repair and Reinforcement System for Disaster Sites Using 3D Concrete Printing	Kiyeol Kim Dankook University