arxivcs.AI2026-07-14
Cost-Optimal Foundation Model Deployment Portfolio for Transportation Management
Xi Cheng, Ke Liu, Siyuan Feng, Jane Lin, H. Oliver Gao
Foundation models, including large language models (LLMs) and vision-language models (VLMs), are increasingly used for transportation management center (TMC) tasks such as anomaly detection, incident reporting, and traveler information. Deploying multiple such models across TMC f…