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This work addresses the problem of autonomous traffic management at an isolated intersection for connected and automated vehicles. We decompose the trajectory of each vehicle into two phases: the provisional phase and the coordinated phase.…
Understanding the dynamics of truck volumes and activities across the skeleton traffic network is pivotal for effective traffic planning, traffic management, sustainability analysis, and policy making. Yet, relying solely on average annual…
We study the problem of deploying a fleet of mobile robots to service tasks that arrive stochastically over time and at random locations in an environment. This is known as the Dynamic Vehicle Routing Problem (DVRP) and requires robots to…
To achieve the requirement of high data rate, low latency, user fairness for next generation wireless networks, proper designing of cross-layer optimized dynamic resource allocation algorithm is prerequisite. In this paper, we propose a…
Mobile network operators constantly optimize their networks to ensure superior service quality and coverage. This optimization is crucial for maintaining an optimal user experience and requires extensive data collection and analysis. One of…
We develop a method to estimate from data travel latency cost functions in multi-class transportation networks, which accommodate different types of vehicles with very different characteristics (e.g., cars and trucks). Leveraging our…
This dissertation proposes two solutions for urban traffic control in the presence of connected and automated vehicles. First a centralized platoon-based controller is proposed for the cooperative intersection management problem that takes…
Network traffic model is a critical problem for urban applications, mainly because of its diversity and node density. As wireless sensor network is highly concerned with the development of smart cities, careful consideration to traffic…
We consider the problem of choosing a subset of proposed road network upgrades to implement within a fixed budget in order to optimize the benefit in terms of vehicle hours travelled (VHT), and show how to render the solution of this…
We introduce a heuristic scheduling algorithm for real-time adaptive traffic signal control to reduce traffic congestion. This algorithm adopts a lane-based model that estimates the arrival time of all vehicles approaching an intersection…
For high-density metro traffic, nowadays the time-variant passenger flow is the main cause of train delays and stranded passengers. Typically, the main objective of automatic metro traffic regulation methods is to minimize the delay time of…
We study efficient and exact shortest path algorithms for routing on road networks with realistic traffic data. For navigation applications, both current (i.e., live) traffic events and predictions of future traffic flows play an important…
We show how optimization methods from economics known as portfolio strategies can be used for minimizing download times in the Internet and travel times in freeway traffic. While for Internet traffic, there is an optimal restart frequency…
The problem of optimization of a transport traffic at preliminary registration of demands with use of the CBSMAP model is investigated. For the solution of an objective application of the queueing theory and the theory of controlled…
We consider the problem of enhancing the delivery of real-time traffic in wireless networks using bandwidth sharing between operators. A key characteristic of real-time traffic is that a packet has to be delivered within a delay deadline…
We propose a new speed and departure time optimization algorithm for the Pollution-Routing Problem (PRP), which runs in quadratic time and returns a certified optimal schedule. This algorithm is embedded into an iterated local search-based…
Traffic prediction is a fundamental task in many real applications, which aims to predict the future traffic volume in any region of a city. In essence, traffic volume in a region is the aggregation of traffic flows from/to the region.…
We study the problem of planning routes in road networks when certain streets or areas are closed at certain times. For heavy vehicles, such areas may be very large since many European countries impose temporary driving bans during the…
Connectivity maintenance is crucial for the real world deployment of multi-robot systems, as it ultimately allows the robots to communicate, coordinate and perform tasks in a collaborative way. A connectivity maintenance controller must…
We explore the achievable delay performance in wireless random-access networks. While relatively simple and inherently distributed in nature, suitably designed queue-based random-access schemes provide the striking capability to match the…