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Monitoring and control of traffic networks represent alternative, inexpensive strategies to minimize traffic congestion. As the number of traffic sensors is naturally constrained by budgetary requirements, real-time estimation of traffic…

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We develop reinforcement learning (RL) boundary controllers to mitigate stop-and-go traffic congestion on a freeway segment. The traffic dynamics of the freeway segment are governed by a macroscopic Aw-Rascle-Zhang (ARZ) model, consisting…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-01-18 Huan Yu , Saehong Park , Alexandre Bayen , Scott Moura , Miroslav Krstic

Autonomous shuttles (AS) operate in several cities and have shown potential to improve the public transport network. However, there is no car following model that is based on field data and allows decision-makers to assess and plan for AS…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-01-18 Renan Favero , Lily Elefteriadou

We consider solutions of the Aw-Rascle model for traffic flow fulfilling a constraint on the flux at $x=0$. Two different kinds of solutions are proposed: at $x=0$ the first one conserves both the number of vehicles and the generalized…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-07-01 Mauro Garavello , Paola Goatin

We present a traffic flow model consisting of a gluing between the Lighthill-Whitham and Richards macroscopic model with a first order microscopic follow the leader model. The basic analytical properties of this model are investigated.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-18 Rinaldo M. Colombo , Francesca Marcellini

We review recent results and present new ones on a deterministic follow-the-leader particle approximation of first and second order models for traffic flow and pedestrian movements. We start by constructing the particle scheme for the first…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-10-24 Marco Di Francesco , Simone Fagioli , Massimiliano D. Rosini , Giovanni Russo

Aggregated Relational Data (ARD) contain summary information about individual social networks and are widely used to estimate social network characteristics and the size of populations of interest. Although a variety of ARD estimators…

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Transportation departments take actions to manage traffic flow and reduce travel times based on estimated current and projected traffic conditions. Travel time estimates and forecasts require information on traffic density which are…

Applications · Statistics 2016-02-01 Nicholas Polson , Vadim Sokolov

In modern transportation systems, traffic congestion is inevitable. To minimize the loss caused by congestion, various control strategies have been developed most of which rely on observing real-time traffic conditions. As vintage traffic…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-11 Suyash C. Vishnoi , Sebastian A. Nugroho , Ahmad F. Taha , Christian Claudel , Taposh Banerjee

Recent empirical studies have reported that spatiotemporal congestion clusters in urban traffic exhibit scale-free statistics, with cluster size following a power-law distribution. In this study, we address whether macroscopic continuum…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-04-08 Yuki Chiba , Norikazu Saito , Yuki Ueda , Hiroaki Yoshida

This paper is concerned with highway traffic estimation using traffic sensing data, in a Lagrangian-based modeling framework. We consider the Lighthill-Whitham-Richards (LWR) model (Lighthill and Whitham, 1955; Richards, 1956) in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-11-21 Ke Han , Tao Yao , Terry L. Friesz

We show that the emergence of different surface patterns (ripples, dots) can be well understood by a suitable mapping onto the simplest nonequilibrium lattice gases and cellular automata.Using this efficient approach difficult, unanswered…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-01-21 Géza Ódor , Bartosz Liedke , Karl-Heinz Heinig , Jeffrey Kelling

Jamitons are self-sustained traveling wave solutions that arise in certain second-order macroscopic models of vehicular traffic. A necessary condition for a jamiton to appear is that the local traffic density breaks the so-called…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-12-06 Raimund Bürger , Claudio Muñoz , Sebastián Tapia

In [7], Berthelin, Degond, Delitala and Rascle introduced a traffic flow model describing the formation and the dynamics of traffic jams. This model consists of a Pressureless Gas Dynamics system under a maximal constraint on the density…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-08-08 Florent Berthelin , Damien Broizat

We propose a Physics Informed Learning framework for reconstructing traffic density from sparse trajectory data. The approach combines a second-order Aw-Rascle and Zhang model with a first-order training stage to estimate the equilibrium…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-10 S. Betancur Giraldo , J. Mårtensson , M. Barreau

The macroscopic traffic flow model is widely used for traffic control and management. To incorporate drivers' anticipative behaviors and to remove impractical speed discontinuity inherent in the classic Lighthill-Whitham-Richards (LWR)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-06 Chenguang Zhao , Huan Yu

Ridership estimation at station level plays a critical role in metro transportation planning. Among various existing ridership estimation methods, direct demand model has been recognized as an effective approach. However, existing direct…

Applications · Statistics 2019-04-03 Yuxin He , Yang Zhao , Kwok Leung Tsui

We study an optimal control problem for traffic regulation via variable speed limit. The traffic flow dynamics is described with the Lighthill-Whitham-Richards (LWR) model with Newell-Daganzo flux function. We aim at minimizing the $L^2$…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-03-16 Maria Laura Delle Monache , Benedetto Piccoli , Francesco Rossi

Most autonomous-vehicles (AVs) driving strategies are designed and analyzed at the vehicle level, yet their aggregate impact on macroscopic traffic flow is still not understood, particularly the flow heterogeneity that emerges when AVs…

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