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Understanding, predicting and controlling laminar-turbulent boundary-layer transition is crucial for the next generation aircraft design. However, in real flight experiments, or wind tunnel tests, often only sparse sensor measurements can…
We propose a framework for constructing microscopic traffic models from microscopic acceleration patterns that can in principle be experimental measured and proper averaged. The exact model thus obtained can be used to justify the…
We discuss a nonlocal version of the Generalized Aw-Rascle-Zhang model, a second-order vehicular traffic model where the empty road velocity is a Lagrangian marker governed by a transport equation. The evolution of the car density is…
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,…
This work presents a collapsed generalized Aw-Rascle-Zhang (CGARZ) model, which fits into a generic second order model (GSOM) framework. GSOMs augment the evolution of the traffic density by a second state variable characterizing a property…
This study addresses the challenge of estimating traffic states for road links. We propose an innovative approach that leverages partial trajectory data captured by camera-equipped probe vehicles traveling in the opposite lane. The…
This paper aims to quantify uncertainty in traffic state estimation (TSE) using the generative adversarial network based physics-informed deep learning (PIDL). The uncertainty of the focus arises from fundamental diagrams, in other words,…
An extended multi-class Aw-Rascle (AR) model with pressure term described as a function of area occupancy defined in form of proportional densities is presented. Two vehicle classes that is; cars and motorcycles are considered based on an…
Work zone is one of the major causes of non-recurrent traffic congestion and road incidents. Despite the significance of its impact, studies on predicting the traffic impact of work zones remain scarce. In this paper, we propose a data…
In this paper, we introduce a new conservation-based approach to model traffic dynamics, and apply the model predictive control (MPC) approach to control the boundary traffic inflow and outflow, so that the traffic congestion is reduced. We…
We consider the Follow-The-Leader approximation of the Aw-Rascle-Zhang (ARZ) model for traffic flow in a multi-population formulation. We prove rigorous convergence to weak solutions of the ARZ system in the many particle limit in presence…
We analyze traffic data from a highway section containing one effective on-ramp. Based on two criteria, local velocity variation patterns and expansion (or nonexpansion) of congested regions, three distinct congested traffic states are…
Traffic flow modeling spans a wide range of mathematical approaches, from microscopic descriptions of individual vehicle dynamics to macroscopic models based on aggregate quantities. A fundamental challenge in macroscopic modeling lies in…
Traffic state estimation (TSE) falls methodologically into three categories: model-driven, data-driven, and model-data dual-driven. Model-driven TSE relies on macroscopic traffic flow models originated from hydrodynamics. Data-driven TSE…
Macroscopic traffic flow is stochastic, but the physics-informed deep learning methods currently used in transportation literature embed deterministic PDEs and produce point-valued outputs; the stochasticity of the governing dynamics plays…
This paper proposes a scalable and interpretable framework for lane-wise highway traffic anomaly detection, leveraging multi-modal time series data extracted from surveillance cameras. Unlike traditional sensor-dependent methods, our…
We present in this paper a method for the estimation of traffic state at road junctions controlled with traffic lights. We assume mixed traffic where a proportion of vehicles are equipped with communication resources. The estimation of road…
Existing methods for traffic signal design are either too simplistic to capture realistic traffic characteristics or too complicated to be mathematically tractable. In this study, we attempts to fill the gap by presenting a new method based…
This paper develops an automatic freeway bottleneck identification and visualization algorithm using a combination of image processing techniques and traffic flow theory. Unlike previous studies that are based solely on loop detector data,…
Historically, traffic modelling approaches have taken either a particle-like (microscopic) approach, or a gas-like (meso- or macroscopic) approach. Until recently with the introduction of mean-field games to the controls community, there…