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Braess' paradox has been shown to appear rather generically in many systems of transport on networks. It is especially relevant for vehicular traffic where it shows that in certain situations building a new road in an urban or highway…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-03-08 Stefan Bittihn , Andreas Schadschneider

In recent years, state-of-the-art traffic-control devices have evolved from standalone hardware to networked smart devices. Smart traffic control enables operators to decrease traffic congestion and environmental impact by acquiring…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-08-06 Aron Laszka , Waseem Abbas , Yevgeniy Vorobeychik , Xenofon Koutsoukos

We study the following repeated non-atomic routing game. In every round, nature chooses a state in an i.i.d. manner according to a publicly known distribution, which influences link latency functions. The system planner makes private route…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-26 Yixian Zhu , Ketan Savla

The optimal information feedback has a significant effect on many socioeconomic systems like stock market and traffic systems aiming to make full use of resources. In this paper, we studied dynamics of traffic flow with real-time…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2009-09-29 Dong Chuan-Fei , Ma Xu , Wang Guan-Wen , Sun Xiao-Yan , Wang Bing-Hong

This paper proposes a bilevel transit network design problem considering supply side uncertainty. The upper level problem determines frequency settings to simultaneously maximize the efficiency and equity measures, which are defined by the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-05-06 Yu Jiang

A novel predictor for traffic flow forecasting, namely spatio-temporal Bayesian network predictor, is proposed. Unlike existing methods, our approach incorporates all the spatial and temporal information available in a transportation…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-12-27 Shiliang Sun , Changshui Zhang , Yi Zhang

Adversarial optimal transport has been proven useful as a mathematical formulation to model resource allocation problems to maximize the efficiency of transportation with an adversary, who modifies the data. It is often the case, however,…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Yinan Hu , Juntao Chen , Quanyan Zhu

Wardrop equilibria in nonatomic congestion games are in general inefficient as they do not induce an optimal flow that minimizes the total travel time. Network tolls are a prominent and popular way to induce an optimum flow in equilibrium.…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-03 Riccardo Colini-Baldeschi , Max Klimm , Marco Scarsini

The objective of this paper is to initiate a qualitative analysis of dynamic flow in traffic networks by using the competitive equilibrium model of multiple market systems. A network is modeled as a dynamic graph where routes (edges) are…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-11-30 Dragoslav D. Šiljak

Over the past decade, GPS enabled traffic applications, such as Google Maps and Waze, have become ubiquitous and have had a significant influence on billions of daily commuters' travel patterns. A consequence of the online route suggestions…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-09-21 Devansh Jalota , Dario Paccagnan , Maximilian Schiffer , Marco Pavone

The shortest-time route recommendations offered by modern navigation systems fuel selfish routing in urban vehicular traffic networks and are therefore one of the main reasons for the growth of congestion. In contrast, intelligent…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Doris E. M. Brown , Venkata Sriram Siddhardh Nadendla , Sajal K. Das

When selfish users share a road network and minimize their individual travel costs, the equilibrium they reach can be worse than the socially optimal routing. Tolls are often used to mitigate this effect in traditional congestion games,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-09-02 Daniel A. Lazar , Ramtin Pedarsani

We study information design in games where players choose from a continuum of actions and have continuously differentiable payoffs. We show that an information structure is optimal when the equilibrium it induces can also be implemented in…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2026-04-23 Alex Smolin , Takuro Yamashita

This paper proposes a simplified version of classical models for urban transportation networks, and studies the problem of controlling intersections with the goal of optimizing network-wide congestion. Differently from traditional…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-11-08 Gianluca Bianchin , Fabio Pasqualetti

An urban traffic system is a heterogeneous system, which consists of different types of intersections and dynamics. In this paper, we focus on one type of heterogeneous traffic network, which consists of signalized junctions and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-05-11 Yicheng Zhang , Rong Su , Yi Zhang , Chunyang Sun

This research considers Bayesian decision-analytic approaches toward the traversal of an uncertain graph. Namely, a traveler progresses over a graph in which rewards are gained upon a node's first visit and costs are incurred for every edge…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-03-11 William N. Caballero , Phillip R. Jenkins , David Banks , Matthew Robbins

In vehicular traffic planning it is a long standing problem how to assign demand such on the available model of a road network that an equilibrium with regard to travel time or generalized costs is realized. For pedestrian traffic this…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2014-01-09 Tobias Kretz , Karsten Lehmann , Ingmar Hofsäß

We develop a Markovian traffic equilibrium model for ride-hailing in which vehicles, whether empty or hired, make sequential order-acceptance and link-choice decisions over a traffic network to maximize total discounted return in an…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Song Gao , Hanyu Cheng , Chiwei Yan , Guocheng Jiang

With recent advancements in the field of communications and the Internet of Things, vehicles are becoming more aware of their environment and are evolving towards full autonomy. Vehicular communication opens up the possibility for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-25 Yousef AlSaqabi , Bhaskar Krishnamachari

Identifying the origin of nonequilibrium characteristics in a generic interacting system having multiple degrees of freedom is a challenging task. In this context, information theoretic measures such as mutual information and related…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-07-24 Biswajit Das , Sreekanth K Manikandan , Ayan Banerjee