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We study traffic flow on roads with a localized periodic inhomogeneity such as traffic signals, using a stochastic car-following model. We find that in cases of congestion, traffic flow can be optimized by controlling the inhomogeneity's…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Elad Tomer , Leonid Safonov , Nilly Madar , Shlomo Havlin

Urban traffic management is essential for reducing congestion and supporting sustainable mobility. However, the task is becoming more challenging due to the growing penetration of electric vehicles and their charging demands. This paper…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-04 Yixun Wen , Stelios Timotheou , Boli Chen

Fractional-order dynamical networks are increasingly being used to model and describe processes demonstrating long-term memory or complex interlaced dependencies amongst the spatial and temporal components of a wide variety of dynamical…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-08-04 Sarthak Chatterjee , Andrea Alessandretti , A. Pedro Aguiar , Sérgio Pequito

Data on citywide street-segment traffic volumes are essential for urban planning and sustainable mobility management. Yet such data are available only for a limited subset of streets due to the high costs of sensor deployment and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-19 Silke K. Kaiser

Accurate traffic congestion classification requires models that jointly capture roadway scene context and non-stationary traffic motion, yet most prior work treats these requirements in isolation. Vision-based methods often depend on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Eugene Kofi Okrah Denteh , Blessing Agyei Kyem , Joshua Kofi Asamoah , Armstrong Aboah

In this paper we propose a new modeling technique for vehicular traffic flow, designed for capturing at a macroscopic level some effects, due to the microscopic granularity of the flow of cars, which would be lost with a purely continuous…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-03-25 Emiliano Cristiani , Benedetto Piccoli , Andrea Tosin

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

Motivated by the fact that intelligent traffic control systems have become inevitable demand to cope with the risk of traffic congestion in urban areas, this paper develops a distributed control strategy for urban traffic networks. Since…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-06 Viet Hoang Pham , Kazunori Sakurama , Shaoshuai Mou , Hyo-Sung Ahn

Urban intersections with mixed pedestrian and non-motorized vehicle traffic present complex safety challenges, yet traditional models fail to account for dynamic interactions arising from speed heterogeneity and collision anticipation. This…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-10-07 Chaojia Yu , Kaixin Wang , Junle Li , Jingjie Wang

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…

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

World-wide detailed 2D maps require enormous collective efforts. OpenStreetMap is the result of 11 million registered users manually annotating the GPS location of over 1.75 billion entries, including distinctive landmarks and common urban…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-25 Matteo Toso , Stefano Fiorini , Stuart James , Alessio Del Bue

This paper proposes a new stochastic model of traffic dynamics in Lagrangian coordinates. The source of uncertainty is heterogeneity in driving behavior, captured using driver-specific speed-spacing relations, i.e., parametric uncertainty.…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-08-16 Fangfang Zheng , Saif Eddin Jabari , Henry X. Liu , DianChao Lin

We present an advanced interpolation method for estimating smooth spatiotemporal profiles for local highway traffic variables such as flow, speed and density. The method is based on stationary detector data as typically collected by traffic…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2011-08-25 Martin Treiber , Arne Kesting , R. Eddie Wilson

Traffic speed is a key indicator for the efficiency of an urban transportation system. Accurate modeling of the spatiotemporally varying traffic speed thus plays a crucial role in urban planning and development. This paper addresses the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-08-29 Truc Viet Le , Richard J. Oentaryo , Siyuan Liu , Hoong Chuin Lau

Estimation of road traffic is a fundamental problem which has been addressed with a variety of methods. In the present paper, a variant of the mobile observer method is proposed. It is assumed that some vehicles composing the road traffic…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-06-05 Cyril Nguyen Van Phu

In this second part of our research we used the models presented in \emph{Modeling a vehicular traffic network. Part I} \cite{ogm1} to perform an analysis of the urban traffic as recorded by cameras distributed in a chosen sector of Tigre,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-08-01 Ariel Amadio , Facundo Nicuesa , D. Otero , D. Galetti , S. S. Mizrahi

This study develops a dynamic fundamental diagram (FD) framework tailored to mixed traffic environments comprising automated vehicles (AVs) and human-driven vehicles (HDVs). Describing function analysis is employed to derive approximate…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-29 Jiwan Jiang , Soyoung Ahn

We present large scale and detailed analysis of the microscopic empirical data of the traffic flow, focusing on the non-linear interactions between the vehicles when the traffic is congested. By implementing a "renormalisation" procedure…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2016-03-15 Bo Yang , Ji Wei Yoon , Christopher Monterola

Microscopic traffic flow models can be distinguished in lane-based or lane-free depending on the degree of lane-discipline. This distinction holds true only if motorcycles are neglected in lane-based traffic. In cities, as opposed to…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-10-26 Georg Anagnostopoulos , Nikolas Geroliminis