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Deep Spatiotemporal Forecasting and Reinforcement Optimization for Ambulance Allocation

  • Yihjia Tsai,
  • Yoshimasa Tokuyama,
  • Jih Pin Yeh and
  • Hwei Jen Lin

29 January 2026

Emergency Medical Services (EMS) require timely and equitable ambulance allocation supported by accurate demand estimation. In our prior work, we developed a statistical forecasting module based on Overall Smoothed Average Demand (OSAD) and Average M...

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  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,986 Views
13 Pages

Spatiotemporal Optimization for the Placement of Automated External Defibrillators Using Mobile Phone Data

  • Jielu Zhang,
  • Lan Mu,
  • Donglan Zhang,
  • Janani Rajbhandari-Thapa,
  • Zhuo Chen,
  • José A. Pagán,
  • Yan Li,
  • Heejung Son and
  • Junxiu Liu

With over 350,000 cases occurring each year, out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) remains a severe public health concern in the United States. The correct and timely use of automated external defibrillators (AEDs) has been widely acknowledged as an...

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  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,281 Views
18 Pages

Spatiotemporal Optimization for Short-Term Solar Forecasting Based on Satellite Imagery

  • Myeongchan Oh,
  • Chang Ki Kim,
  • Boyoung Kim,
  • Changyeol Yun,
  • Yong-Heack Kang and
  • Hyun-Goo Kim

15 April 2021

Solar forecasting is essential for optimizing the integration of solar photovoltaic energy into a power grid. This study presents solar forecasting models based on satellite imagery. The cloud motion vector (CMV) model is the most popular satellite-i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,398 Views
25 Pages

9 April 2025

To address the challenges posed by the interdependence between subway vehicle scheduling and maintenance planning, which complicates joint optimization modeling and solution processes, this study proposes a spatiotemporal network-based joint optimiza...

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  • Open Access
573 Views
30 Pages

Dynamic Pressure Awareness and Spatiotemporal Collaborative Optimization Scheduling for Microgrids Driven by Flexible Energy Storage

  • Hao Liu,
  • Li Di,
  • Yu-Rong Hu,
  • Jian-Wei Ma,
  • Jian Zhao,
  • Xiao-Zhao Wei,
  • Ling Miao and
  • Jing-Yuan Yin

11 November 2025

Under the dual carbon goals, microgrids face significant challenges in managing multi-energy flow coupling and maintaining operational robustness with high renewable energy penetration. This paper proposes a novel dynamic pressure-aware spatiotempora...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,991 Views
24 Pages

As a kind of first aid healthcare service, emergency medical services (EMSs) present high spatiotemporal sensitivity due to significant changes in the time-dependent urban environment. Taking full advantage of big spatiotemporal data to realize multi...

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  • Open Access
210 Views
23 Pages

Transportation infrastructure is vital for sustaining communities and fostering economic development. Urbanization and climate change have led to the rapid deterioration of road transport systems, posing significant challenges for future sustainabili...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,737 Views
24 Pages

The rapid growth of electric vehicle (EV) adoption has led to an increased demand for charging infrastructure, creating significant challenges for power grid load management and dispatch optimization. This paper addresses these challenges by proposin...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,124 Views
21 Pages

21 May 2025

Ecosystem service flow (ESF) provides a new perspective for understanding the spatial transfer of ecosystem services across urban administrative boundaries, which is of significant importance for optimizing the regional ecological resource allocation...

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  • Open Access
616 Views
26 Pages

5 December 2025

Environmental degradation from rapid urbanization significantly threatens ecological resilience (ER). Nevertheless, accurately evaluating ER remains a persistent challenge. Prior studies’ limited attention to resilience’s cross-scale comp...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,520 Views
21 Pages

23 February 2022

The unprecedented development of Internet of Things (IoT) technology produces humongous amounts of spatio-temporal sensing data with various geometry types. However, processing such datasets is often challenging due to high-dimensional sensor data ge...

  • Review
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,687 Views
28 Pages

Spatio-Temporal Graphs in Transportation: Challenges, Optimization, and Prospects

  • Aleksandr Rakhmangulov,
  • Nikita Osintsev and
  • Pavel Mishkurov

8 April 2025

Intelligent and information systems in transportation record and accumulate large volumes of raw data on dynamic transportation processes. However, these data are not fully utilized for forecasting, real-time planning, and transportation management....

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,329 Views
24 Pages

Optimized Spatiotemporal Data Scheduling Based on Maximum Flow for Multilevel Visualization Tasks

  • Qing Zhu,
  • Meite Chen,
  • Bin Feng,
  • Yan Zhou,
  • Maosu Li,
  • Zhaowen Xu,
  • Yulin Ding,
  • Mingwei Liu,
  • Wei Wang and
  • Xiao Xie

Massive spatiotemporal data scheduling in a cloud environment play a significant role in real-time visualization. Existing methods focus on preloading, prefetching, multithread processing and multilevel cache collaboration, which waste hardware resou...

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  • Open Access
509 Views
17 Pages

Dynamic Escape Path Optimization Model Study Based on Spatio-Temporal Evolution of Coal Mine Water Inrush

  • Lin An,
  • Zaibing Liu,
  • Xinmiao Wang,
  • Wenming Liu,
  • Shaolong Wang,
  • Liang Ma,
  • Tao Fan,
  • Weiming Chen and
  • Junjie Hu

12 November 2025

To reduce the risk of coal mine water inrush, a dynamic escape path optimization model based on the spatio-temporal evolution of the water inrush is studied. The actual coal mine is simplified into roadway nodes and segments to meet the real-time sim...

  • Article
  • Open Access
543 Views
38 Pages

Addressing Spatiotemporal Mismatch via Hourly Pipeline Scheduling: Regional Hydrogen Energy Supply Optimization

  • Lei Yu,
  • Xinhao Lin,
  • Yinliang Liu,
  • Shuyin Duan,
  • Lvzerui Yuan,
  • Yiyong Lei,
  • Xueyan Wu and
  • Qingwei Li

3 November 2025

The rapid adoption of hydrogen fuel cell vehicles (HFCVs) in the Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei (BTH) hub accentuates the mismatch between renewable-based hydrogen supply in Hebei and concentrated demand in Beijing and Tianjin. We develop a mixed-...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,429 Views
22 Pages

14 May 2022

Spatiotemporal scale is a basic component of geographical problems because the size of spatiotemporal units may have a significant impact on the aggregation of spatial data and the corresponding analysis results. However, there is no clear standard f...

  • Article
  • Open Access
338 Views
26 Pages

11 January 2026

Surface deformation induced by the extraction of natural resources constitutes a non-stationary spatiotemporal process. Modeling surface deformation time series obtained through Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) technology using deep l...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,057 Views
30 Pages

20 August 2025

As cities transition toward intelligent traffic systems, hybrid networks combining AI and traditional intersections raise challenges for efficiency and sustainability. Existing studies primarily focus on global intelligence assumptions, overlooking t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
85 Citations
8,947 Views
15 Pages

Deep Spatio-Temporal Graph Network with Self-Optimization for Air Quality Prediction

  • Xue-Bo Jin,
  • Zhong-Yao Wang,
  • Jian-Lei Kong,
  • Yu-Ting Bai,
  • Ting-Li Su,
  • Hui-Jun Ma and
  • Prasun Chakrabarti

30 January 2023

The environment and development are major issues of general concern. After much suffering from the harm of environmental pollution, human beings began to pay attention to environmental protection and started to carry out pollutant prediction research...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,203 Views
20 Pages

Enhanced Spatiotemporal Landslide Displacement Prediction Using Dynamic Graph-Optimized GNSS Monitoring

  • Jiangfeng Li,
  • Jiahao Qin,
  • Kaimin Kang,
  • Mingzhi Liang,
  • Kunpeng Liu and
  • Xiaohua Ding

1 August 2025

Landslide displacement prediction is crucial for disaster mitigation, yet traditional methods often fail to capture the complex, non-stationary spatiotemporal dynamics of slope evolution. This study introduces an enhanced prediction framework that in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
1,869 Views
21 Pages

Spatiotemporal Evolution, Driving Mechanisms, and Zoning Optimization Pathways of Ecosystem Health in China

  • Weihan Zhu,
  • Jixing Huang,
  • Shuqi Yang,
  • Wanyi Liu,
  • Yongwu Dai,
  • Guoxing Huang and
  • Jinhuang Lin

10 November 2024

The health status of ecosystems is an important prerequisite for ensuring regional ecological security. Exploring the spatiotemporal patterns, driving mechanisms, and zoning regulation pathways of ecosystem health is of great significance for achievi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
7,665 Views
17 Pages

The information contained within Call Details records (CDRs) of mobile networks can be used to study the operational efficacy of cellular networks and behavioural pattern of mobile subscribers. In this study, we extract actionable insights from the C...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,268 Views
19 Pages

Spatio-temporal indexing is a key technique in spatio-temporal data storage and management. Indexing methods based on spatial filling curves are popular in research on the spatio-temporal indexing of vector data in the Not Relational (NoSQL) database...

  • Article
  • Open Access
460 Views
31 Pages

27 November 2025

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have emerged as a pivotal technology for enhancing the agility and resilience of future wireless networks. However, conventional optimization approaches remain predominantly reactive, relying solely on current network...

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  • Open Access
24 Citations
3,224 Views
23 Pages

14 September 2022

(1) Background: Eco−spatial networks play an important role in enhancing ecosystem services and landscape connectivity. It is necessary to study landscape structure optimization to achieve synergistic gains in network connectivity and ecosystem...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
881 Views
34 Pages

24 June 2025

To address the charging demand challenges brought about by the widespread adoption of electric vehicles, integrated photovoltaic–storage–charging stations (PSCSs) enhance energy utilization efficiency and economic viability by combining p...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,906 Views
35 Pages

Ant Colony System Optimization for Spatiotemporal Modelling of Combined EEG and MEG Data

  • Eugene A. Opoku,
  • Syed Ejaz Ahmed,
  • Yin Song and
  • Farouk S. Nathoo

11 March 2021

Electroencephalography/Magnetoencephalography (EEG/MEG) source localization involves the estimation of neural activity inside the brain volume that underlies the EEG/MEG measures observed at the sensor array. In this paper, we consider a Bayesian fin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,072 Views
23 Pages

Spatiotemporal Evolution and Optimization of Urbanization–Water Environment Coupling in the Cheng-Yu Region

  • Binghao Sun,
  • Xinlan Liang,
  • Bingchang Li,
  • Jiahao Liu,
  • Lingfeng Wu and
  • Yizhang Liu

16 February 2025

With global urbanization on the rise, China has entered the mid-to-late urbanization stage, and the Cheng-Yu region, as a key economic zone and new urbanization model in China, has faced water environmental issues due to rapid urbanization, while sys...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,627 Views
31 Pages

Leveraging Stochasticity for Open Loop and Model Predictive Control of Spatio-Temporal Systems

  • George I. Boutselis,
  • Ethan N. Evans,
  • Marcus A. Pereira and
  • Evangelos A. Theodorou

23 July 2021

Stochastic spatio-temporal processes are prevalent across domains ranging from the modeling of plasma, turbulence in fluids to the wave function of quantum systems. This letter studies a measure-theoretic description of such systems by describing the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
655 Views
23 Pages

17 April 2025

Active frequency response (AFR) plays a crucial role in addressing the challenge of insufficient frequency regulation caused by the spatiotemporal distribution of power grid frequency. However, power fluctuations in renewable energy sources impact th...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,616 Views
29 Pages

Optimization of Flight Scheduling in Urban Air Mobility Considering Spatiotemporal Uncertainties

  • Lingzhong Meng,
  • Minggong Wu,
  • Xiangxi Wen,
  • Zhichong Zhou and
  • Qingguo Tian

The vigorous development of urban air mobility (UAM) is reshaping the urban travel landscape, but it also poses severe challenges to the safe and efficient operation of dense and complex airspace. Potential conflicts between flight plans have become...

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  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,602 Views
20 Pages

14 May 2024

Land use, as one of the major sources of carbon emissions, has profound implications for global climate change. County-level land-use systems play a critical role in national carbon emission management and control. Consequently, it is essential to ex...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,933 Views
17 Pages

23 November 2022

The ecological restoration of territorial space emphasizes the synergy between ecology and social development. On this basis, we used landscape index analysis methods to explore the spatiotemporal evolution of landscape patterns in urban areas on a d...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,673 Views
23 Pages

Traffic congestion is a globally widespread problem that causes significant economic losses, delays, and environmental impacts. Monitoring traffic conditions and analyzing congestion factors are the first, challenging steps in optimizing traffic cong...

  • Article
  • Open Access
293 Views
40 Pages

27 December 2025

Accurate environmental prediction is crucial for ecological monitoring and disaster early warnings, but it remains challenging due to the spatiotemporal complexity of dynamic wireless sensor networks (WSNs). To this end, we propose a novel hybrid mod...

  • Article
  • Open Access
216 Views
30 Pages

10 February 2026

The escalating global surge in Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) necessitates the strategic deployment of recycling facilities within resilient, multi-period networks. However, existing planning methodologies falter due to the non-stat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
242 Views
15 Pages

24 January 2026

Conventional descriptive statistical approaches in per- and polyfluoroalkyl substance (PFAS) environmental forensics often fail under small-sample, ecosystem-level complexity, challenging the optimization of sampling, monitoring, and remediation stra...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,514 Views
27 Pages

5 July 2025

With increasing attention to sustainability and energy efficiency in transportation systems, advanced intelligent algorithms provide promising solutions for optimizing urban rail transit operations. This study addresses the challenge of optimizing tr...

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  • Open Access
1,366 Views
17 Pages

1 August 2025

This study proposes an intelligent patrol planning framework that leverages reinforcement learning, spatiotemporal crime forecasting, and simulated sensor telemetry to optimize autonomous vehicle (AV) navigation in urban environments. Crime incidents...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,210 Views
20 Pages

Solid Backfilling Efficiency Optimization in Coal Mining: Spatiotemporal Linkage Analysis and Case Study

  • Tingcheng Zong,
  • Gaolei Zhu,
  • Qiang Zhang,
  • Kang Yang,
  • Yunbo Wang,
  • Yu Han,
  • Haonan Lv and
  • Jinming Cao

14 November 2023

In coal mining, solid backfilling technology is widely used. However, its efficiency is seriously hindered by the following two factors. Firstly, the process flow of the solid backfilling operation is more complicated in the back, and the spatiotempo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,521 Views
17 Pages

With the rapid development of the logistics industry, the demand for logistics activities is increasing significantly. Concurrently, growing urbanization is causing the space for logistics and warehousing to become limited. Thus, more and more attent...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4,367 Views
19 Pages

19 May 2019

With the increase in mobile location service applications, spatiotemporal queries over the trajectory data of moving objects have become a research hotspot, and continuous query is one of the key types of various spatiotemporal queries. In this paper...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
709 Views
23 Pages

11 July 2025

The rapid advancement of Internet of Things technologies has significantly enhanced cross-regional communication among geographically and linguistically diverse populations on social platforms yet simultaneously accelerated the propagation of rumors...

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  • Open Access
844 Views
42 Pages

18 July 2025

A novel multi-scale copula-based model predictive control (MPC) method is proposed to address the core regulation challenges of runoff hydropower and distributed photovoltaic systems within high-penetration renewable energy grids. Complex spatio-temp...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,433 Views
20 Pages

Data-Driven Distributionally Robust Optimization for Solar-Powered EV Charging Under Spatiotemporal Uncertainty in Urban Distribution Networks

  • Tianhao Wang,
  • Xuejiao Zhang,
  • Xiaolin Zheng,
  • Jian Wang,
  • Shiqian Ma,
  • Jian Chen,
  • Mengyu Liu and
  • Wei Wei

27 July 2025

The rapid electrification of transportation and the proliferation of rooftop solar photovoltaics (PVs) in urban environments are reshaping the operational dynamics of power distribution networks. However, the inherent uncertainty in electric vehicle...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,311 Views
16 Pages

24 January 2024

Meteorological time series, such as rainfall data, show spatiotemporal characteristics and are often faced with the problem of containing missing values. Discarding missing values or modeling data with missing values causes negative impacts on the ac...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,688 Views
32 Pages

11 August 2025

In regions characterized by complex terrain and diverse pollution sources, high-precision air pollution prediction remains challenging due to nonlinear spatiotemporal coupling and the difficulty of modeling local pollutant agglomeration. To address t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,657 Views
20 Pages

3 December 2022

The theory of the optimal formation of coherent and incoherent images is developed using the foundations of the statistical theory of optimization of radio engineering information-measuring systems. The main operations necessary for synthesizing opti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,124 Views
21 Pages

29 May 2025

Accurate car-sharing demand prediction is a key factor in enhancing the operational efficiency of shared mobility systems. However, mobility data often exhibit temporal, spatial, and spatio-temporal interdependencies that pose significant challenges...

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  • Open Access
74 Citations
9,650 Views
19 Pages

18 June 2017

Nighttime light data derived from the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program’s Operational Linescan System (DMSP-OLS) in conjunction with the Soumi National Polar-Orbiting Partnership Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (NPP-VIIRS) possess gr...

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