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City traffic is a dynamic system of enormous complexity. Modeling and predicting city traffic flow remains to be a challenge task and the main difficulties are how to specify the supply and demands and how to parameterize the model. In this…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-12-09 Yucheng Hu , Minwei Li , Hao Liu , Xiaolu Guo , Xiaowei Wang , Tiejun Li

This paper proposes a graph-based approach to representing spatio-temporal trajectory data that allows an effective visualization and characterization of city-wide traffic dynamics. With the advance of sensor, mobile, and Internet of Things…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-07 Jiwon Kim , Kai Zheng , Jonathan Corcoran , Sanghyung Ahn , Marty Papamanolis

Urban rail transit (URT) system plays a dominating role in many megacities like Beijing and Hong Kong. Due to its important role and complex nature, it is always in great need for public agencies to better understand the performance of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-23 Jinlei Zhang , Feng Chen , Lixing Yang , Wei Ma , Guangyin Jin , Ziyou Gao

Recent statistical methods fitted on large-scale GPS data can provide accurate estimations of the expected travel time between two points. However, little is known about the distribution of travel time, which is key to decision-making…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-03-21 Mohamad Elmasri , Aurelie Labbe , Denis Larocque , Laurent Charlin

Traffic data serves as a fundamental component in both research and applications within intelligent transportation systems. However, real-world transportation data, collected from loop detectors or similar sources, often contains missing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Zepu Wang , Dingyi Zhuang , Yankai Li , Jinhua Zhao , Peng Sun , Shenhao Wang , Yulin Hu

Human mobility analysis at urban-scale requires models to represent the complex nature of human movements, which in turn are affected by accessibility to nearby points of interest, underlying socioeconomic factors of a place, and local…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-04-07 Sinjini Mitra , Anuj Srivastava , Avipsa Roy , Pavan Turaga

Traffic congestion research is on the rise, thanks to urbanization, economic growth, and industrialization. Developed countries invest a lot of research money in collecting traffic data using Radio Frequency Identification (RFID), loop…

Recent mobility scaling research, using new data sources, often relies on aggregated data alone. Hence, these studies face difficulties characterizing the influence of factors such as transportation mode on mobility patterns. This paper…

Physics and Society · Physics 2014-01-07 Galen Wilkerson , Ramin Khalili , Stefan Schmid

Understanding urban mobility patterns and analyzing how people move around cities helps improve the overall quality of life and supports the development of more livable, efficient, and sustainable urban areas. A challenging aspect of this…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-09-05 Prabin Bhandari , Antonios Anastasopoulos , Dieter Pfoser

Lane graph estimation is an essential and highly challenging task in automated driving and HD map learning. Existing methods using either onboard or aerial imagery struggle with complex lane topologies, out-of-distribution scenarios, or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-20 Martin Büchner , Jannik Zürn , Ion-George Todoran , Abhinav Valada , Wolfram Burgard

Urban traffic congestion remains a persistent issue for cities worldwide. Recent macroscopic models have adopted a mathematically well-defined relation between network flow and density to characterize traffic states over an urban region.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-09 Mostafa Ameli , Jean-Patrick Lebacque , Negin Alisoltani , Ludovic Leclercq

Our goal is to use overhead imagery to understand patterns in traffic flow, for instance answering questions such as how fast could you traverse Times Square at 3am on a Sunday. A traditional approach for solving this problem would be to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Scott Workman , Nathan Jacobs

Understanding human mobility is of vital importance for urban planning, epidemiology, and many other fields that aim to draw policies from the activities of humans in space. Despite recent availability of large scale data sets related to…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-08-18 Oleguer Sagarra , Michael Szell , Paolo Santi , Albert Diaz-Guilera , Carlo Ratti

We address two shortcomings in online travel time estimation methods for congested urban traffic. The first shortcoming is related to the determination of the number of mixture modes, which can change dynamically, within day and from day to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-01-14 Saif Eddin Jabari , Nikolaos M. Freris , Deepthi Mary Dilip

Predicting travel times of vehicles in urban settings is a useful and tangible quantity of interest in the context of intelligent transportation systems. We address the problem of travel time prediction in arterial roads using data sampled…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-11-17 Avinash Achar , Venkatesh Sarangan , R Rohith , Anand Sivasubramaniam

How can urban movement data be exploited in order to improve the flow of traffic within a city? Movement data provides valuable information about routes and specific roads that people are likely to drive on. This allows us to pinpoint roads…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-06-04 Laurens Arp , Dyon van Vreumingen , Daniela Gawehns , Mitra Baratchi

Location data can be extremely useful to study commuting patterns and disruptions, as well as to predict real-time traffic volumes. At the same time, however, the fine-grained collection of user locations raises serious privacy concerns, as…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-10-11 Apostolos Pyrgelis , Emiliano De Cristofaro , Gordon Ross

Estimating Origin-Destination (OD) travel demand is vital for effective urban planning and traffic management. Developing universally applicable OD estimation methodologies is significantly challenged by the pervasive scarcity of…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Chao Zhang , Neha Arora , Christopher Bian , Yechen Li , Willa Ng , Andrew Tomkins , Bin Yan , Janny Zhang , Carolina Osorio

The importance of understanding human mobility patterns has led many studies to examine their spatial-temporal scaling laws. These studies mainly reveal that human travel can be highly non-homogeneous with power-law scaling distributions of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-10-14 Xiaoyan Feng , Huijun Sun , Bnaya Gross , Jianjun Wu , Daqing Li , Xin Yang , Dong Zhou , Ziyou Gao , Shlomo Havlin

Travel time estimation is a fundamental problem in transportation science with extensive literature. The study of these techniques has intensified due to availability of many publicly available large trip datasets. Recently developed deep…