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Traffic congestion is one of the most notable problems arising in worldwide urban areas, importantly compromising human mobility and air quality. Current technologies to sense real-time data about cities, and its open distribution for…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-12-30 Albert Solé-Ribalta , Sergio Gómez , Alex Arenas

The structure of road networks impacts various urban dynamics, from traffic congestion to environmental sustainability and access to essential services. Recent studies reveal that most roads are underutilized, faster alternative routes are…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-10-06 Giuliano Cornacchia , Luca Pappalardo , Mirco Nanni , Dino Pedreschi , Marta C. González

Urban mobility is a multi-entity system that involves travelers, transport modes, and infrastructure. Beyond conventional origin/destination analysis, this paper investigates how process mining can structure and interpret mobility behavior…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Khristina Filonchik , Jose Pedro Pinto , Flávio L. Pinheiro , Fernando Bacao

We survey recent advances in algorithms for route planning in transportation networks. For road networks, we show that one can compute driving directions in milliseconds or less even at continental scale. A variety of techniques provide…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-04-21 Hannah Bast , Daniel Delling , Andrew Goldberg , Matthias Müller-Hannemann , Thomas Pajor , Peter Sanders , Dorothea Wagner , Renato F. Werneck

In modern urban centers, effective transportation management poses a significant challenge, with traffic jams and inconsistent travel durations greatly affecting commuters and logistics operations. This study introduces a novel method for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Shambhavi Mishra , T. Satyanarayana Murthy

This work presents a new method to quantify connectivity in transportation networks. Inspired by the field of topological data analysis, we propose a novel approach to explore the robustness of road network connectivity in the presence of…

Most optimal routing problems focus on minimizing travel time or distance traveled. Oftentimes, a more useful objective is to maximize the probability of on-time arrival, which requires statistical distributions of travel times, rather than…

Mitigating traffic congestion on urban roads, with paramount importance in urban development and reduction of energy consumption and air pollution, depends on our ability to foresee road usage and traffic conditions pertaining to the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-04-27 Jingyuan Wang , Yu Mao , Jing Li , Chao Li , Zhang Xiong , Wen-Xu Wang

Most traffic state forecast algorithms when applied to urban road networks consider only the links in close proximity to the target location. However, for longer-term forecasts also the traffic state of more distant links or regions of the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-09-18 Felix Rempe , Klaus Bogenberger

Using the growing volumes of vehicle trajectory data, it becomes increasingly possible to capture time-varying and uncertain travel costs in a road network, including travel time and fuel consumption. The current paradigm represents a road…

Databases · Computer Science 2015-12-07 Jian Dai , Bin Yang , Chenjuan Guo , Christian S. Jensen

In this paper, urban traffic is modeled using dual graph representation of urban transportation network where roads are mapped to nodes and intersections are mapped to links. The proposed model considers both the navigation of vehicles on…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-11-13 Mao-Bin Hu , Rui Jiang , Yong-Hong Wu , Wen-Xu Wang , Qing-Song Wu

We study the analysis of all the movements of the population on the basis of their mobility from one node to another, to observe, measure, and predict the impact of traffic according to this mobility. The frequency of congestion on roads…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-11-14 Henock M. Mboko , Mouhamadou A. M. T. Balde , Babacar M. Ndiaye

Traffic problems have seriously affected people's life quality and urban development, and forecasting the short-term traffic congestion is of great importance to both individuals and governments. However, understanding and modeling the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-17 Meng Chen , Xiaohui Yu , Yang Liu

Transportation infrastructure, such as road or railroad networks, represent a fundamental component of our civilization. For sustainable planning and informed decision making, a thorough understanding of the long-term evolution of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Johannes H. Uhl , Stefan Leyk , Yao-Yi Chiang , Craig A. Knoblock

We study the emergence of congestion patterns in urban networks by modeling vehicular interaction by means of a simple traffic rule and by using a set of measures inspired by the standard Betweenness Centrality (BC). We consider a…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-07-25 Marco Cogoni , Giovanni Busonera , Francesco Versaci

How can urban movement data be exploited in order to improve the flow of traffic within a city? Movement data provides valuable information about routes and specific roads that people are likely to drive on. This allows us to pinpoint roads…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-06-04 Laurens Arp , Dyon van Vreumingen , Daniela Gawehns , Mitra Baratchi

Estimating temporal patterns in travel times along road segments in urban settings is of central importance to traffic engineers and city planners. In this work, we propose a methodology to leverage coarse-grained and aggregated travel time…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-01-17 Kelsey Maass , Arun V Sathanur , Arif Khan , Robert Rallo

The rapid growth of population and the permanent increase in the number of vehicles engender several issues in transportation systems, which in turn call for an intelligent and cost-effective approach to resolve the problems in an efficient…

Applications · Statistics 2018-07-31 Sina Dabiri , Kevin Heaslip

Traffic congestion at intersections is a significant issue in urban areas, leading to increased commute times, safety hazards, and operational inefficiencies. This study aims to develop a predictive model for congestion at intersections in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-28 Tara Kelly , Jessica Gupta

The amount of data that is being gathered about cities is increasing in size and specificity. However, despite this wealth of information, we still have little understanding of what really drives the processes behind urbanisation. In this…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-11-30 Rémi Louf