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Sustainable urban design or planning is not a LEGO-like assembly of prefabricated elements, but an embryo-like growth with persistent differentiation and adaptation towards a coherent whole. The coherent whole has a striking character -…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-08-10 Bin Jiang , Ju-Tzu Huang

Cities are living organisms. They are out of equilibrium, open systems that never stop developing and sometimes die. The local geography can be compared to a shell constraining its development. In brief, a city's current layout is a step in…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2015-05-20 Thomas Courtat , Catherine Gloaguen , Stephane Douady

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.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-04 Xian Zhou , Yanyan Shen , Linpeng Huang

A robust estimation of road course and traffic lanes is an essential part of environment perception for next generations of Advanced Driver Assistance Systems and development of self-driving vehicles. In this paper, a flexible method for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-06-07 Alexey Abramov , Christopher Bayer , Claudio Heller , Claudia Loy

Since the industrial revolution, accelerated urban growth has overflown administrative divisions, merged cities into large built extensions, and blurred the boundaries between urban and rural land-uses. These traits, present in most of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-09-21 Francisco J. Humeres , Horacio Samaniego

The large-scale deployment of autonomous vehicles is yet to come, and one of the major remaining challenges lies in urban dense traffic scenarios. In such cases, it remains challenging to predict the future evolution of the scene and future…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-19 Hao Shao , Letian Wang , Ruobing Chen , Steven L. Waslander , Hongsheng Li , Yu Liu

Region representation learning plays a pivotal role in urban computing by extracting meaningful features from unlabeled urban data. Analogous to how perceived facial age reflects an individual's health, the visual appearance of a city…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Yimei Zhang , Guojiang Shen , Kaili Ning , Tongwei Ren , Xuebo Qiu , Mengmeng Wang , Xiangjie Kong

A persistent challenge in the field of Intelligent Transportation Systems is to extract accurate traffic insights from geographic regions with scarce or no data coverage. To this end, we propose solutions for speed prediction using sparse…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Sarah Almeida Carneiro , Giovanni Chierchia , Aurelie Pirayre , Laurent Najman

Modeling and understanding the environment is an essential task for autonomous driving. In addition to the detection of objects, in complex traffic scenarios the motion of other road participants is of special interest. Therefore, we…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-05-06 Marcel Schreiber , Vasileios Belagiannis , Claudius Gläser , Klaus Dietmayer

Urban morphology has long been recognized as a factor shaping human mobility, yet comparative and formal classifications of urban form across metropolitan areas remain limited. Building on theoretical principles of urban structure and…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-11-13 Juan Fernando Riascos-Goyes , Michael Lowry , Nicolás Guarín-Zapata , Juan P. Ospina

Reliably predicting future occupancy of highly dynamic urban environments is an important precursor for safe autonomous navigation. Common challenges in the prediction include forecasting the relative position of other vehicles, modelling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-09 Khushdeep Singh Mann , Abhishek Tomy , Anshul Paigwar , Alessandro Renzaglia , Christian Laugier

This paper presents a novel approach of representing dynamic visual scenes with static maps generated from video/image streams. Such representation allows easy visual assessment of motion in dynamic environments. These maps are 2D matrices…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-05 Bruno Costa , Enrique Corona , Mostafa Parchami , Gint Puskorius , Dimitar Filev

Traditional traffic prediction, limited by the scope of sensor data, falls short in comprehensive traffic management. Mobile networks offer a promising alternative using network activity counts, but these lack crucial directionality. Thus,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-29 ChungYi Lin , Shen-Lung Tung , Hung-Ting Su , Winston H. Hsu

Systems of cities at the macroscopic scale have their trajectories conditioned by the evolution of infrastructure networks. This leads to complex planning and management situations in the particular case of international transportation…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-09-01 Juste Raimbault

Efficient navigation in dynamic environments requires anticipating how motion patterns evolve beyond the robot's immediate perceptual range, enabling preemptive rather than purely reactive planning in crowded scenes. Maps of Dynamics (MoDs)…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Iacopo Catalano , David Morilla-Cabello , Jorge Pena-Queralta , Eduardo Montijano

Pervasive and mobile sensing is an integral part of smart transport and smart city applications. Vehicle-based mobile sensing, or drive-by sensing (DS), is gaining popularity in both academic research and field practice. The DS paradigm has…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Wen Ji , Ke Han , Tao Liu

Tracking congestion throughout the network road is a critical component of Intelligent transportation network management systems. Understanding how the traffic flows and short-term prediction of congestion occurrence due to rush-hour or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-07-27 Mohammadhani Fouladgar , Mostafa Parchami , Ramez Elmasri , Amir Ghaderi

Visualization is a powerful paradigm for exploratory data analysis. Visualizing large graphs, however, often results in a meaningless hairball. In this paper, we propose a different approach that helps the user adaptively explore large…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2016-07-25 Robert Pienta , Zhiyuan Lin , Minsuk Kahng , Jilles Vreeken , Partha P. Talukdar , James Abello , Ganesh Parameswaran , Duen Horng Chau

Quantifying the topological similarities of different parts of urban road networks (URNs) enables us to understand the urban growth patterns. While conventional statistics provide useful information about characteristics of either a single…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-12-01 Jiawei Xue , Nan Jiang , Senwei Liang , Qiyuan Pang , Takahiro Yabe , Satish V. Ukkusuri , Jianzhu Ma

To help mitigate road congestion caused by the unrelenting growth of traffic demand, many transportation authorities have implemented managed lane policies, which restrict certain freeway lanes to certain types of vehicles. It was…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-11-16 Matthew A. Wright , Roberto Horowitz , Alex A. Kurzhanskiy