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Recent years have witnessed an explosion of extensive geolocated datasets related to human movement, enabling scientists to quantitatively study individual and collective mobility patterns, and to generate models that can capture and…

Dynamic shortest-path routing, using real-time traffic data, enables path selection responsive to evolving conditions. Nevertheless, transportation planning tasks such as adaptive congestion pricing, fleet routing, and long-term operational…

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Predicting traffic conditions has been recently explored as a way to relieve traffic congestion. Several pioneering approaches have been proposed based on traffic observations of the target location as well as its adjacent regions, but they…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Xingyi Cheng , Ruiqing Zhang , Jie Zhou , Wei Xu

Due to the complexity of the traffic flow dynamics in urban road networks, most quantitative descriptions of city traffic so far are based on computer simulations. This contribution pursues a macroscopic (fluid-dynamic) simulation approach,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-03-18 Amin Mazloumian , Nikolas Geroliminis , Dirk Helbing

This work introduces an integrated approach to optimizing urban traffic by combining predictive modeling of vehicle flow, adaptive traffic signal control, and a modular integration architecture through distributed messaging. Using real-time…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-20 Ismail Zrigui , Samira Khoulji , Mohamed Larbi Kerkeb

With people constantly migrating to different urban areas, our mobility needs for work, services and leisure are transforming rapidly. The changing urban demographics pose several challenges for the efficient management of transit services.…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-06-08 Trivik Verma , Mikhail Sirenko , Itto Kornecki , Scott Cunningham , Nuno AM Araújo

Accurate predictions of base stations' traffic load are essential to mobile cellular operators and their users as they support the efficient use of network resources and allow delivery of services that sustain smart cities and roads.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Natalia Vesselinova , Matti Harjula , Pauliina Ilmonen

The deployment of modern network applications is increasing the network size and traffic volumes at an unprecedented pace. Storing network-related information (e.g., traffic traces) is key to enable efficient network management. However,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-01-24 Paul Almasan , Krzysztof Rusek , Shihan Xiao , Xiang Shi , Xiangle Cheng , Albert Cabellos-Aparicio , Pere Barlet-Ros

The concept of mobility prediction represents one of the key enablers for an efficient management of future cellular networks, which tend to be progressively more elaborate and dense due to the aggregation of multiple technologies. In this…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-26 Giulio Siracusano , Aurelio La Corte

The network topology and the routing strategy are major factors to affect the traffic dynamics of the network. In this work, we aim to design an optimal time-varying network structure and an efficient route is allocated to each user in the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-09-18 Suchi Kumari , Anurag Singh

Travel time prediction is central to transport geography and planning's accessibility analyses, sustainable transportation infrastructure provision, and active transportation interventions. However, calculating accurate travel times,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-02-18 Geoff Boeing , Yuquan Zhou

While many classical traffic models treat the spatial extension of streets continuously or by discretization into cells of a certain length, we will subdivide roads into comparatively long homogeneous road sections of constant capacity with…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Dirk Helbing

Traffic congestion is one of the major challenges faced by the transportation industry. While this problem carries a high economical and environmental cost, the need for an efficient design of optimal paths for passengers in multilayer…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-06-10 Abdullahi Adinoyi Ibrahim , Daniela Leite , Caterina De Bacco

We introduce a dynamic percolation model aimed at describing the consumption, and eventual exhaustion, of resources in transportation networks. In the model, rational agents progressively consume the edges of a network along demanded…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-09-15 Minsuk Kim , C. Tyler Diggans , Filippo Radicchi

We study the biased random walk process in random uncorrelated networks with arbitrary degree distributions. In our model, the bias is defined by the preferential transition probability, which, in recent years, has been commonly used to…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2013-05-29 Agata Fronczak , Piotr Fronczak

Traffic flow prediction is an important research issue for solving the traffic congestion problem in an Intelligent Transportation System (ITS). Traffic congestion is one of the most serious problems in a city, which can be predicted in…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-09-26 Yuanfang Chen , Mohsen Guizani , Yan Zhang , Lei Wang , Noel Crespi , Gyu Myoung Lee

Quantifying how spatial disorder affects the movement of a diffusing particle or agent is fundamental to target search studies. When diffusion occurs on a network, that is on a highly disordered environment, we lack the mathematical tools…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-08-15 Daniel Marris , Chittaranjan Hens , Subrata Ghosh , Luca Giuggioli

This work addresses the task of modeling spatiotemporal traffic patterns directly from overhead imagery, which we refer to as image-driven traffic modeling. We extend this line of work and introduce a multi-modal, multi-task…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Scott Workman , Armin Hadzic

The technology of traffic flow forecasting plays an important role in intelligent transportation systems. Based on graph neural networks and attention mechanisms, most previous works utilize the transformer architecture to discover…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Weiguo Zhu , Yongqi Sun , Xintong Yi , Yan Wang

Traffic forecasting is crucial for urban traffic management and guidance. However, existing methods rarely exploit the time-frequency properties of traffic speed observations, and often neglect the propagation of traffic flows from upstream…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-16 Na Zhang , Xuefeng Guan , Jun Cao , Xinglei Wang , Huayi Wu