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We study the Traffic Light Control (TLC) problem for a traffic network with multiple intersections in an artery, including the effect of transit delays for vehicles moving from one intersection to the next. The goal is to minimize the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-17 Yingqing Chen , Christos G. Cassandras

Simple physical models based on fluid mechanics have long been used to understand the flow of vehicular traffic on freeways; analytically tractable models of flow on an urban grid, however, have not been as extensively explored. In an ideal…

Physics and Society · Physics 2013-10-21 Mark J Panaggio , Bertrand J Ottino-Löffler , Peiguang Hu , Daniel M Abrams

In discrete time, $\ell$-blocks of red lights are separated by $\ell$-blocks of green lights. Cars arrive at random. The maximum line length of idle cars is fully understood for $\ell = 1$, but only partially for $2 \leq \ell \leq 3$.

History and Overview · Mathematics 2018-11-01 Steven Finch , Guy Louchard

With the acceleration of urbanization, modern urban traffic systems are becoming increasingly complex, leading to frequent traffic anomalies. These anomalies encompass not only common traffic jams but also more challenging issues such as…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Tianchi Ren , Haibo Hu , Jiacheng Zuo , Xinhong Chen , Jianping Wang , Chun Jason Xue , Jen-Ming Wu , Nan Guan

This paper introduces a general model of a single-lane roundabout, represented as a circular lattice that consists of $L$ cells, with Markovian traffic dynamics. Vehicles enter the roundabout via on-ramp queues that have stochastic arrival…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2020-02-05 Jaap Storm , Sandjai Bhulai , Wouter Kager , Michel Mandjes

Traffic matrix measurement is fundamental for datacenter operations, but obtaining complete traffic matrices at scale remains challenging due to the prohibitive cost of global fine-grained measurement and partial observations resulting from…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Xiyuan Liu , Zihao Wang , Guanzuo Liu , Xiucheng Tian , Wenting Wei

Traffic prediction, an essential component for intelligent transportation systems, endeavours to use historical data to foresee future traffic features at specific locations. Although existing traffic prediction models often emphasize…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Chenxi Liu , Sun Yang , Qianxiong Xu , Zhishuai Li , Cheng Long , Ziyue Li , Rui Zhao

Accurate traffic prediction, especially predicting traffic conditions several days in advance is essential for intelligent transportation systems (ITS). Such predictions enable mid- and long-term traffic optimization, which is crucial for…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Hangli Ge , Xiaojie Yang , Itsuki Matsunaga , Dizhi Huang , Noboru Koshizuka

In this paper we investigate Gaussian queues in the light-traffic and in the heavy-traffic regime. The setting considered is that of a centered Gaussian process $X\equiv\{X(t):t\in\mathbb R\}$ with stationary increments and variance…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-06-07 Krzysztof Debicki , Kamil Marcin Kosinski , Michel Mandjes

The interest in developing smart cities has increased dramatically in recent years. In this context an intelligent transportation system depicts a major topic. The forecast of traffic flow is indispensable for an efficient intelligent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Ralf Rüther , Andreas Klos , Marius Rosenbaum , Wolfram Schiffmann

The rapid development of autonomous vehicles spurred a careful investigation of the potential benefits of all-autonomous transportation networks. Most studies conclude that autonomous systems can enable drastic improvements in performance.…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-07-28 David Miculescu , Sertac Karaman

We present novel online mechanisms for traffic intersection auctions in which users bid for priority service. We assume that users at the front of their lane are requested to declare their delay cost, i.e. value of time, and that users are…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-15 David Rey , Michael W Levin , Vinayak V Dixit

Accurate short-term mobile traffic prediction is important for proactive resource allocation and low-latency network management in fifth generation (5G) and sixth generation (6G). While large language models (LLMs) can perform in-context…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-05-12 MohammadMahdi Ghadaksaz , Mohammad Farzanullah , Akram Bin Sediq , Ali Afana , Melike Erol-Kantarci

Recent work in decentralized, schedule-driven traffic control has demonstrated the ability to significantly improve traffic flow efficiency in complex urban road networks. However, in situations where vehicle volumes increase to the point…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-03-12 Hsu-Chieh Hu , Stephen F. Smith

Short-term road traffic prediction (STTP) is one of the most important modules in Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS). However, network-level STTP still remains challenging due to the difficulties both in modeling the diverse traffic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-27 Lingyi Han , Kan Zheng , Long Zhao , Xianbin Wang , Xuemin Shen

Traffic congestion is a daunting problem that is affecting the daily lives of billions of people across the world. Recently, a promising new traffic control scheme known as Virtual Traffic Lights (VTL) has been proposed for mitigating…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-07-05 Rusheng Zhang , Frank Schmutz , Kyle Gerard , Aurélien Pomini , Louis Basseto , Sami Ben Hassen , Akihiro Ishikawa , Inci Ozgunes , Ozan Tonguz

We present a flow-control technique in traffic-light intersections, aiming at regulating queue lengths to given reference setpoints. The technique is based on multivariable integrators with adaptive gains, computed at each control cycle by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-07-29 Carla Seatzu , Yorai Wardi

In an intelligent transportation system, the key problem of traffic forecasting is how to extract periodic temporal dependencies and complex spatial correlations. Current state-of-the-art methods for predicting traffic flow are based on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Zichuan Liu , Rui Zhang , Chen Wang , Zhu Xiao , Hongbo Jiang

Due to urbanization and the increase of individual mobility, in most metropolitan areas around the world congestion and inefficient traffic management occur. Highly necessary intelligent traffic control systems, which are able to reduce…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-13 Simon F. G. Ehlers

Exact mean field equations are derived analytically to give the fundamental diagrams, i.e., the average speed - car density relations, for the Fukui-Ishibashi one-dimensional traffic flow cellular automaton model of high speed vehicles…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Bing-Hong Wang , Lei Wang , P. M. Hui , Bambi Hu