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April 3, 2026Urban Science2 citationsOpen Access

GeoAI and Multimodal Geospatial Data Fusion for Inclusive Urban Mobility: Methods, Applications, and Future Directions

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AKAtakilti Brhanu KirosYRY. RibakovIKIsrael Klein

Key Points

  • This research aims to explore how GeoAI and data fusion can enhance urban mobility for marginalized populations.
  • Conducted a systematic survey of 18 GeoAI studies on urban mobility from 2019 to 2025.
  • Analyzed various multimodal data sources like satellite imagery, GPS trajectories, and social sensing data.
  • Examined methodological trends in data, feature, and decision-level fusion strategies.
  • Identified growing use of deep learning in GeoAI for urban mobility tasks.
  • Highlighted gaps in population coverage and multimodal integration affecting inclusivity.
  • Proposed a structured research roadmap to improve equity and robustness in GeoAI applications.

Abstract

Urban mobility is a central challenge for sustainable and inclusive cities, as climate change, congestion, and spatial inequality increasingly reveal mobility patterns as expressions of deeper social and spatial structures. Inclusive urban mobility examines whether transport systems equitably support the everyday movements and accessibility needs of historically marginalized and underserved populations. The integration of artificial intelligence with geographic information science, combined with multimodal geospatial data fusion, provides powerful tools to diagnose and address these disparities by integrating heterogeneous data sources such as satellite imagery, GPS trajectories, transit records, volunteered geographic information, and social sensing data into scalable, high-resolution urban mobility analytics. This paper presents a systematic survey of recent GeoAI studies that fuse multiple geospatial data modalities for key urban mobility tasks, including accessibility mapping, demand forecasting, and origin–destination flow prediction, with particular emphasis on inclusive and equity-oriented applications. The review examines 18 multimodal GeoAI studies identified through a PRISMA-ScR screening process from 57 candidate publications between 2019 and 2025. The survey synthesizes methodological trends across data-, feature-, and decision-level fusion strategies, highlights the growing use of deep learning architectures, and examines emerging techniques such as knowledge graphs, federated learning, and explainable AI that support equity-relevant insights across diverse urban contexts. Building on this synthesis, the review identifies persistent gaps in population coverage, multimodal integration, equity optimization, explainability, validation, and governance, which currently constrain the inclusiveness and robustness of GeoAI applications in urban mobility research. To address these challenges, the paper proposes a structured research roadmap linking these gaps to concrete methodological and governance directions including equity-aware loss functions, adaptive multimodal fusion pipelines, participatory and human-in-the-loop workflows, and urban data trusts to better align multimodal GeoAI with the goals of inclusive, just, and sustainable urban mobility systems.

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Kiros et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69cf5ea85a333a821460d348https://doi.org/10.3390/urbansci10040193
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