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Network-wide traffic flow, which captures dynamic traffic volume on each link of a general network, is fundamental to smart mobility applications. However, the observed traffic flow from sensors is usually limited across the entire network…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-07 Zijian Hu , Zhenjie Zheng , Monica Menendez , Wei Ma

Building machine-learning models for estimating traffic flows from OD matrices requires an appropriate design of the training process and a training dataset spanning over multiple regimes and dynamics. As machine-learning models rely…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Serio Agriesti , Guido Cantelmo , Francisco Camara Pereira

The commuting origin-destination~(OD) matrix is a critical input for urban planning and transportation, providing crucial information about the population residing in one region and working in another within an interested area. Despite its…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-07-25 Can Rong , Jingtao Ding , Yan Liu , Yong Li

Accurate origin-destination (OD) flow prediction is of great importance to developing cities, as it can contribute to optimize urban structures and layouts. However, with the common issues of missing regional features and lacking OD flow…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Tao Feng , Yunke Zhang , Huandong Wang , Yong Li

The structure of road networks plays a pivotal role in shaping transportation dynamics. It also provides insights into how drivers experience city streets and helps uncover each urban environment's unique characteristics and challenges.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Anu Kuncheria , Joan L. Walker , Jane Macfarlane

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

Transportation networks serve as windows into the complex world of urban systems. By properly characterizing a road network, we can therefore better understand its encompassing urban system. This study offers a geometrical approach towards…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-07-15 Farideddin Peiravian , Sybil Derrible

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

Dynamic graph neural networks (DGNNs) are increasingly pervasive in exploiting spatio-temporal patterns on dynamic graphs. However, existing works fail to generalize under distribution shifts, which are common in real-world scenarios. As…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Haonan Yuan , Qingyun Sun , Xingcheng Fu , Ziwei Zhang , Cheng Ji , Hao Peng , Jianxin Li

Traffic forecasting is important for the success of intelligent transportation systems. Deep learning models, including convolution neural networks and recurrent neural networks, have been extensively applied in traffic forecasting problems…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-08 Weiwei Jiang , Jiayun Luo

Accurate understanding and forecasting of traffic is a key contemporary problem for policymakers. Road networks are increasingly congested, yet traffic data is often expensive to obtain, making informed policy-making harder. This paper…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2019-07-12 Chico Q. Camargo , Jonathan Bright , Graham McNeill , Sridhar Raman , Scott A. Hale

Recent years have witnessed a rapid growth of applying deep spatiotemporal methods in traffic forecasting. However, the prediction of origin-destination (OD) demands is still a challenging problem since the number of OD pairs is usually…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Ruixing Zhang , Liangzhe Han , Boyi Liu , Jiayuan Zeng , Leilei Sun

Urban mobility forecast and analysis can be addressed through grid-based and graph-based models. However, graph-based representations have the advantage of more realistically depicting the mobility networks and being more robust since they…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Rafael Martínez Márquez , Giuseppe Patanè

I study Hodge decomposition (HodgeRank) for urban traffic flow on two graph representations: dense origin--destination (OD) graphs and road-segment networks. Reproducing the method of Aoki et al., we observe that on dense OD graphs the curl…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Yifei Sun

Urban land use inference is a critically important task that aids in city planning and policy-making. Recently, the increased use of sensor and location technologies has facilitated the collection of multi-modal mobility data, offering…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Xuehao Zhai , Junqi Jiang , Adam Dejl , Antonio Rago , Fangce Guo , Francesca Toni , Aruna Sivakumar

Accurate prediction of metro Origin-Destination (OD) flow is essential for the development of intelligent transportation systems and effective urban traffic management. Existing approaches typically either predict passenger outflow of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Peng Xie , Minbo Ma , Bin Wang , Junbo Zhang , Tianrui Li

Accurate traffic flow forecasting is a crucial research topic in transportation management. However, it is a challenging problem due to rapidly changing traffic conditions, high nonlinearity of traffic flow, and complex spatial and temporal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Sanghyun Lee , Chanyoung Park

The analysis of flow around buildings has gained significant research interest across various domains, including pedestrian safety, pollutant dispersion, natural ventilation, and building energy efficiency. While these domains frequently…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-03-18 Hojin Lee , Andreas Lintermann , Sangseung Lee , Mario Rüttgers

Crime has been previously explained by social characteristics of the residential population and, as stipulated by crime pattern theory, might also be linked to human movements of non-residential visitors. Yet a full empirical validation of…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-04-20 Cristina Kadar , Stefan Feuerriegel , Anastasios Noulas , Cecilia Mascolo

A model for traffic flow in street networks or material flows in supply networks is presented, that takes into account the conservation of cars or materials and other significant features of traffic flows such as jam formation, spillovers,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-08-14 Dirk Helbing , Jan Siegmeier , Stefan Lämmer