Large Multimodal Agents for Intelligent Transportation Systems: Architectures, Evidence, and Deployment Challenges

arXiv:2608.08184 · cs.AI · Submitted 2026-08-08 · Read on arXiv

Muhammad Ayub Sabir, Shaohong Zheng, Zhiyu Qu, Fatima Ashraf, Junbiao Pang

cs.AI

Submitted: 2026-08-08

Updated: 2026-08-11

Code: https://github.com/pangjunbiao/ITS-LMA-Review

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Robustness — 23× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Provenance — 18× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Calibration — 15× in this paper · explained in 9 episodes
• Foundation Model — 15× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Grounding — 11× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Benchmark — 9× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Foundation Models — 6× in this paper · explained in 8 episodes
• Verification — 6× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Ablation — 5× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Fidelity — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Multimodal Reasoning — 4× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Accountability — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Distribution Shift — 3× in this paper · explained in 12 episodes
• Reinforcement Learning — 3× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Verifier — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Abstraction — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Accuracy — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Benchmarking — 2× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Digital Twin — 2× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Evaluation Protocol — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• External Validation — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Generative AI — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Heterogeneous Graph — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Physical Constraints — 2× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Planner — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Task Decomposition — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Actor — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Agentic Framework — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Composition — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Consistency — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Core — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Diffusion Model — 1× in this paper · explained in 10 episodes
• Human-in-the-loop — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Indirect Prompt Injection — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Language Models (LLMs) — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Large Language Models (LLMs) — 1× in this paper · explained in 9 episodes
• Multi-agent Coordination — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Multi-objective Optimization — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Multimodal Dataset — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Multimodal Integration — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Papers — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Uncertainty Quantification — 1× in this paper · explained in 9 episodes
• Vision-language models — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• Large Language Models in Analyzing Crash Narratives -- A Comparative Study of ChatGPT, BARD and GPT-4

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