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This paper studies the traffic state estimation problem at signalized intersections with low penetration rate vehicle trajectory data. While many existing studies have proposed different methods to estimate unknown traffic states and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-16 Xingmin Wang , Zihao Wang , Zachary Jerome , Henry X. Liu

We study dynamical transportation networks in a framework that includes extensions of the classical Cell Transmission Model to arbitrary network topologies. The dynamics are modeled as systems of ordinary differential equations describing…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-10-28 Enrico Lovisari , Giacomo Como , Anders Rantzer , Ketan Savla

Being able to identify service slowdowns is crucial to many operational problems. We study how to use observational congestion data to learn service slowdown in a multi-server system that uses adaptive congestion control mechanisms. We show…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-03-18 Xu Kuang , Gal Mendelson

Traffic congestion, primarily driven by intersection queuing, significantly impacts urban living standards, safety, environmental quality, and economic efficiency. While Traffic Signal Control (TSC) systems hold potential for congestion…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Qiang Li , Jin Niu , Lina Yu

Density fluctuations in traffic current are studied by computer simulations using the deterministic coupled map lattice model on a closed single-lane circuit. By calculating a power spectral density of temporal density fluctuations at a…

chao-dyn · Physics 2009-10-28 S. Yukawa , M. Kikuchi

In this paper, we design a stochastic Model Predictive Control (MPC) traffic signal control method for an urban traffic network when the uncertainties in the estimation of the exogenous (in/out)-flows and the turning ratios of downstream…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-05 Viet Hoang Pham , Hyo-Sung Ahn

From the macroscopic viewpoint for describing the acceleration behavior of drivers, this letter presents a weighted probabilistic cellular automaton model (the WP model, for short) by introducing a kind of random acceleration probabilistic…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-11-13 X. L. Li , H. Kuang , T. Song , S. Q. Dai , Z. P. Li

We present a fluid-dynamic model for the simulation of urban traffic networks with road sections of different lengths and capacities. The model allows one to efficiently simulate the transitions between free and congested traffic, taking…

Popular Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Dirk Helbing , Stefan Lämmer , Jean-Patrick Lebacque

In this position paper, we address the problems of automated road congestion detection and alerting systems and their security properties. We review different theoretical adaptive road traffic control approaches, and three widely deployed…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-06-06 Vinh Thong Ta

Predicting the future trajectory of a surrounding vehicle in congested traffic is one of the basic abilities of an autonomous vehicle. In congestion, a vehicle's future movement is the result of its interaction with surrounding vehicles. A…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-05-29 Xiaoyu Mo , Yang Xing , Chen Lv

A robust and efficient anomaly detection technique is proposed, capable of dealing with crowded scenes where traditional tracking based approaches tend to fail. Initial foreground segmentation of the input frames confines the analysis to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-04-04 Vikas Reddy , Conrad Sanderson , Brian C. Lovell

Autonomous prediction of traffic demand will be a key function in future cellular networks. In the past, researchers have used statistical methods such as Autoregressive integrated moving average (ARIMA) to provide traffic predictions.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-03-06 Shan Jaffry

We consider the freeway network control problem where the aim is to optimize the operation of traffic networks modeled by the Cell Transmission Model via ramp metering and partial mainline demand control. Optimal control problems using the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-05-28 Marius Schmitt , John Lygeros

Forecasting traffic flows is a central task in intelligent transportation system management. Graph structures have shown promise as a modeling framework, with recent advances in spatio-temporal modeling via graph convolution neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Yuanjie Lu , Parastoo Kamranfar , David Lattanzi , Amarda Shehu

The unreal high flows may appear on the actually congested links in the result when a monotonically increasing link travel time function of flow volume is adopted in traffic assignment. The fixed link flow results of a static traffic…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-02 Shengxue He

In network congestion games, system operators often utilize latency models, estimated from real-world traffic flow and travel time data, to design monetary incentives which steer equilibrium user behaviors towards lowering system-wide…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-21 Chih-Yuan Chiu , Sarah H. Q. Li , Bryce L. Ferguson

Traffic congestion and violations pose significant challenges for urban mobility and road safety. Traditional traffic monitoring systems, such as fixed cameras and sensor-based methods, are often constrained by limited coverage, low…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Ali Khanpour , Tianyi Wang , Afra Vahidi-Shams , Wim Ectors , Farzam Nakhaie , Amirhossein Taheri , Christian Claudel

Traffic signal control is a critical task in intelligent transportation systems, yet conventional fixed-time and rule-based methods often struggle to adapt to dynamic traffic demand and provide limited decision interpretability. This study…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Jiazhao Shi

Tolling in traffic networks offers a popular measure to minimize overall congestion. Existing toll designs primarily focus on congestion in route-based traffic assignment models (TAMs), in which travelers make a single route selection from…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-26 Chih-Yuan Chiu , Chinmay Maheshwari , Pan-Yang Su , Shankar Sastry

In this paper we study the routing and rebalancing problem for a fleet of autonomous vehicles providing on-demand transportation within a congested urban road network (that is, a road network where traffic speed depends on vehicle density).…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-09-16 Federico Rossi , Rick Zhang , Marco Pavone