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🗞 This Saturday, join us for an exciting discussion on the future of urban mobility! On February 14, 2026, Rafal will be presenting at the AAAS Annual Meeting – Science @ Scale in Phoenix, Arizona. As part of a session organized by the European Research Council (ERC) alongside Cristina Grasseni, Monika Salzbrunn, and Silvia Grassi, they will explore “A Path to Building Better Cities”. Rafal’s talk highlights how Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CAVs), like Waymo, may affect urban systems as they scale up, sharing public space with “human road users”. Results range from cautious to optimistic, emphasizing the need for thoughtful safeguards in urban mobility. Don’t miss it – save the date and join us in shaping the cities of tomorrow! Presentation

Today, Rafał presents his recent research at the joint seminar of the Association for European Transport (AET) and the Central European Excellence in Transportation Research Association (CEETRA). In his talk, Rafał will introduce the concept of Post-Wardropian Urban Mobility Games with Connected Autonomous Vehicles, which summarizes key findings from our ERC COeXISTENCE project. The session will be co-presented with Roxani Gkavra and moderated by Jacek Pawlak. See slides here

We are thrilled to inform that the publication, first-authored by Michał Bujak, has been published in the European Journal of Operational Research 💣 In this article we propose a personalised pricing strategy for ride-pooling that integrates traveller behaviour with shared-trip economics to maximise expected profitability while reducing vehicle mileage through population heterogeneity. For our team, this is a gratifying culmination of a very hard-working year 🏋️

💡 How can we balance network efficiency with virus safety? In our study published in Social Network Analysis and Mining we show how the DEEN (Deep Epidemic Efficiency Network) model can: ✅ increase system efficiency ✅ reduce the risk of virus spread We tested it on: 🚕 ride-pooling services in New York City, 🇵🇱 economic exchange between regions in Poland, 🌐 peer-to-peer information networks. Example? Dividing 150 NYC taxi riders into 4 groups more than doubled the epidemic threshold, while system utility dropped by only 13%!

During one of the most prestigious conferences in the field of machine learning and artificial intelligence research, NeurIPS2025 our team presented how URB lays the foundation for smarter autonomous vehicle routing for future urban traffic 🚗 URB is a comprehensive benchmarking framework that standardizes AV routing evaluation in realistic traffic scenarios and makes research in this domain more accessible. The study also presents our initial leaderboard of MARL solutions. We hope that URB will catalyze advancements towards efficiency and equity for future urban traffic. We’re thankful for all the great discussions and feedback! Leaving San Diego, we’re full of energy and buzzing with new ideas. Find out more about URB

🤔 Thinking about launching an on-demand feeder service in your city? 🫡 But where? And how will people travel? 🧪 Meet SimFLEX — a simulation framework that shows where on-demand feeder buses can be most effective, using spatial data, demand modelling, shared-ride creation, and traveller learning to deliver KPIs like attractiveness and waiting-time reduction. 💡 Bronowice or Skotniki in Kraków? ➡️ Skotniki! Our team at Jagiellonian University supported the City of Krakow in the HE SUM Project, contributing to the launch of the successful LajkBus. Excellent work in Journal of Public Transportation is now available.