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Traffic congestion is becoming a challenge in the rapidly growing urban cities, resulting in increasing delays and inefficiencies within urban transportation systems. To address this issue a comprehensive methodology is designed to optimize…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-30 H Mhatre , M Vyas , A Mittal

A microscopic theory of control of spatial-temporal congested traffic pattern at freeway bottlenecks is presented. Based on empirical spatial-temporal features of congested patterns at freeway bottlenecks which have recently been found,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Boris S. Kerner

Traffic signals are ubiquitous devices that first appeared in 1868. Recent advances in information and communications technology (ICT) have led to unprecedented improvements in such areas as mobile handheld devices (i.e., smartphones), the…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-08-25 Sanjay Goel , Stephen F. Bush , Carlos Gershenson

Realizing smooth traffic flow is important for achieving carbon neutrality. Adaptive traffic signal control, which considers traffic conditions, has thus attracted attention. However, it is difficult to ensure optimal vehicle flow…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-07-15 Daisuke Inoue , Hiroshi Yamashita , Kazuyuki Aihara , Hiroaki Yoshida

Tracking congestion throughout the network road is a critical component of Intelligent transportation network management systems. Understanding how the traffic flows and short-term prediction of congestion occurrence due to rush-hour or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-07-27 Mohammadhani Fouladgar , Mostafa Parchami , Ramez Elmasri , Amir Ghaderi

An approach to resilient planning and control of autonomous vehicles in multi-vehicle traffic scenarios is proposed. The proposed method is based on model predictive control (MPC), where alternative predictions of the surrounding traffic…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-21 Victor Fors , Björn Olofsson , Erik Frisk

This study developed a traffic sign detection and recognition algorithm based on the RetinaNet. Two main aspects were revised to improve the detection of traffic signs: image cropping to address the issue of large image and small traffic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-14 Meixin Zhu , Jingyun Hu , Ziyuan Pu , Zhiyong Cui , Liangwu Yan , Yinhai Wang

Urban road transport is a major civilisational and economic challenge, affecting the quality of life and economic activity. Addressing these challenges requires a multidisciplinary approach and sustainable urban planning strategies to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-20 Mauritz N. Cartier van Dissel , Paweł Gora , Dragoş Manea

We propose a macroscopic traffic network flow model suitable for analysis as a dynamical system, and we qualitatively analyze equilibrium flows as well as convergence. Flows at a junction are determined by downstream supply of capacity as…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-05-25 Samuel Coogan , Murat Arcak

The effects of real-time provision of travel-time information on the behaviour of drivers are considered. The model of Marecek et al. [arXiv:1406.7639, Int. J. Control 88(10), 2015] is extended to consider uncertainty in the response of a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-05-26 Jakub Marecek , Robert Shorten , Jia Yuan Yu

There have been several highway traffic models proposed based on cellular automata. The simplest one is elementary cellular automaton rule 184. We extend this model to city traffic with cellular automata coupled at intersections using only…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2011-09-06 Carlos Gershenson , David A. Rosenblueth

In the field of conditional autonomous driving technology, driver perceived risk prediction plays a crucial role in reducing traffic risks and ensuring passenger safety. This study introduces an innovative perceived risk prediction model…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Chenhao Yang , Siwei Huang , Chuan Hu

This paper presents YatSim, an open-source program for simulating consensus-based control strategies in urban traffic networks. Urban traffic is a multi-agent system which requires agreement among the agents to guarantees performance,…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-10-29 Alexander Martin Dethof , Fabio Molinari

Adaptive traffic signal control, which adjusts traffic signal timing according to real-time traffic, has been shown to be an effective method to reduce traffic congestion. Available works on adaptive traffic signal control make responsive…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-05-09 Juntao Gao , Yulong Shen , Jia Liu , Minoru Ito , Norio Shiratori

We propose a model for the intersection of two urban streets. The traffic status of the crossroads is controlled by a set of traffic lights which periodically switch to red and green with a total period of T. Two different types of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Ebrahim Fouladvand , Masoud Nematollahi , Farzad Zolfaghari

Various methods to automate traffic data collection have recently been developed by many researchers. A macroscopic data collection through image processing has been proposed. For microscopic traffic flow data, such as individual speed and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-09-09 Kardi Teknomo , Yasushi Takeyama , Hajime Inamura

We present a methodology of cooperative driving in vehicular traffic, in which for short-time traffic prediction rather than one of the statistical approaches of artificial intelligence (AI), we follow a qualitative different microscopic…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-04-17 Boris S. Kerner , Sergey L. Klenov , Vincent Wiering , Michael Schreckenberg

Traffic signal control is a critical task in intelligent transportation systems, yet conventional fixed-time and rule-based methods often struggle to adapt to dynamic traffic demand and provide limited decision interpretability. This study…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Jiazhao Shi

We present in this article an algebraic approach to model and simulate road traffic networks. By defining a set of road traffic systems and adequate concatenating operators in that set, we show that large regular road networks can be easily…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-06-27 Nadir Farhi , Habib Haj-Salem , Jean-Patrick Lebacque

In this paper, we develop a mechanical system inspired microscopic traffic model to characterize the longitudinal interaction dynamics among a chain of vehicles. In particular, we extend our prior work on mass-spring-damper-clutch based…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-08 Mohammad R. Hajidavalloo , Zhaojian Li , Dong Chen , Ali Louati , Shuo Feng , Wubing B. Qin