From Causal Discovery to Implementation: An Agentic AI Framework for E-Scooter Mobility Hub Planning Across 29 German Cities

Existing approaches to e-scooter mobility hub planning lack city-type-specific causal evidence. Demand models are typically correlational, built on proprietary trip data, and do not distinguish how driver profiles vary across urban typologies. This paper presents a three-phase agentic AI framework that constructs a Causal Template Library from public GBFS data across 29 German cities, encoding which environmental features causally drive hotspot demand for each combination of city type (large, university, industrial, hilly) and cluster type (core, peripheral). A large language model (LLM) orchestrated causal discovery pipeline adapts algorithm selection to local data conditions across 57 city-cluster units. The library reveals systematic variation. Core demand is driven by activity access and transit proximity, while peripheral demand responds to built form, with city-type-specific patterns supporting transferable siting templates. A planning tool built on the library scores candidate sites, calibrates infrastructure recommendations to local demographics, and generates practitioner-ready reports. In Heilbronn, Germany, two hub sites informed by the framework's causal evidence are currently under construction, illustrating how the outputs can support real-world siting decisions.

Source: arXiv:2606.25484v1 - http://arxiv.org/abs/2606.25484v1 PDF: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2606.25484v1 Original Link: http://arxiv.org/abs/2606.25484v1