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Predicting travel times of vehicles in urban settings is a useful and tangible quantity of interest in the context of intelligent transportation systems. We address the problem of travel time prediction in arterial roads using data sampled…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-11-17 Avinash Achar , Venkatesh Sarangan , R Rohith , Anand Sivasubramaniam

Efficient traffic signal control (TSC) is crucial for reducing congestion, travel delays, pollution, and for ensuring road safety. Traditional approaches, such as fixed signal control and actuated control, often struggle to handle dynamic…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-29 Anirud Nandakumar , Chayan Banerjee , Lelitha Devi Vanajakshi

Vehicle mobility optimization in urban areas is a long-standing problem in smart city and spatial data analysis. Given the complex urban scenario and unpredictable social events, our work focuses on developing a mobile sequential…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-18 Pengzhan Guo , Keli Xiao , Zeyang Ye , Wei Zhu

The ability to model and predict ego-vehicle's surrounding traffic is crucial for autonomous pilots and intelligent driver-assistance systems. Acceleration prediction is important as one of the major components of traffic prediction. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-11 Jianyu Su , Peter A. Beling , Rui Guo , Kyungtae Han

Today's fixed-cycle traffic signaling is highly suboptimal and aggravates traffic congestion and waste of energy in urban areas. In addition, it offers no quality-of-service guarantee and makes travel time prediction extremely hard. While…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-05-17 Lei Miao , Lijian Xu

Simulation is a valuable tool for traffic management experts to assist them in refining and improving transportation systems and anticipating the impact of possible changes in the infrastructure network before their actual implementation.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Davide Andrea Guastella , Alejandro Morales-Hernàndez , Bruno Cornelis , Gianluca Bontempi

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

The efficiency of traffic flows in urban areas is known to crucially depend on signal operation. Here, elements of signal control are discussed, based on the minimization of overall travel times or vehicle queues. Interestingly, we find…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-05-13 Dirk Helbing , Amin Mazloumian

Traffic forecasting has emerged as a core component of intelligent transportation systems. However, timely accurate traffic forecasting, especially long-term forecasting, still remains an open challenge due to the highly nonlinear and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-30 Mingxing Xu , Wenrui Dai , Chunmiao Liu , Xing Gao , Weiyao Lin , Guo-Jun Qi , Hongkai Xiong

A most important aspect in the field of traffic modeling is the simulation of bottleneck situations. For their realistic description a macroscopic multi-lane model for uni-directional freeways including acceleration, deceleration, velocity…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Dirk Helbing

To tackle ever-increasing city traffic congestion problems, researchers have proposed deep learning models to aid decision-makers in the traffic control domain. Although the proposed models have been remarkably improved in recent years,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-10 Hyunwook Lee , Cheonbok Park , Seungmin Jin , Hyeshin Chu , Jaegul Choo , Sungahn Ko

Microscopic traffic models have recently gained considerable importance as a mean of optimising traffic control strategies. Computationally efficient and sufficiently accurate microscopic traffic models have been developed based on the…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2012-04-10 Bartłomiej Płaczek

This paper develops an optimal acceleration/speed profile for a single autonomous vehicle crossing multiple signalized intersections without stopping in free flow mode. The design objective is to produce both time and energy efficient…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-02-01 Xiangyu Meng , Christos G. Cassandras

We present an algorithmic method for analyzing networks of intersections with static signaling, with as primary example a line network that allows traffic flow over several intersections in one main direction. The method decomposes the…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-11-10 Marko Boon , Johan van Leeuwaarden

Travel on long arterials with signalized intersections can be inefficient if not coordinated properly. As the number of signals increases, coordination becomes more challenging and traditional progression schemes tend to break down. Long…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-19 Melvin H. Friedman , Brian L. Mark , Nathan H. Gartner

Diverse and realistic traffic scenarios are crucial for evaluating the AI safety of autonomous driving systems in simulation. This work introduces a data-driven method called TrafficGen for traffic scenario generation. It learns from the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Lan Feng , Quanyi Li , Zhenghao Peng , Shuhan Tan , Bolei Zhou

In this letter, we propose a new routing strategy to improve the transportation efficiency on complex networks. Instead of using the routing strategy for shortest path, we give a generalized routing algorithm to find the so-called {\it…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 Gang Yan , Tao Zhou , Bo Hu , Zhong-Qian Fu , Bing-Hong Wang

Travel time estimation is a crucial task for not only personal travel scheduling but also city planning. Previous methods focus on modeling toward road segments or sub-paths, then summing up for a final prediction, which have been recently…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-07-09 Wuwei Lan , Yanyan Xu , Bin Zhao

Most traffic flow control algorithms address switching cycle adaptation of traffic signals and lights. This work addresses traffic flow optimisation by self-organising micro-level control combining Reinforcement Learning and rule-based…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-02-25 Stefan Bosse

In this paper, we consider a discrete-time stochastic control problem with uncertain initial and target states. We first discuss the connection between optimal transport and stochastic control problems of this form. Next, we formulate a…