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Recently, hysteretic transitions to `synchronized traffic' with high values of both density and traffic flow were observed on German freeways [B. S. Kerner and H. Rehborn, Phys. Rev. Lett. 79, 4030 (1997)]. We propose a macroscopic traffic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Dirk Helbing , Martin Treiber

Congestion prediction represents a major priority for traffic management centres around the world to ensure timely incident response handling. The increasing amounts of generated traffic data have been used to train machine learning…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-25 Adriana-Simona Mihaita , Haowen Li , Marian-Andrei Rizoiu

Traffic congestion has significant impacts on both the economy and the environment. Measures of Effectiveness (MOEs) have long been the standard for evaluating traffic intersections' level of service and operational efficiency. However, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Nooshin Yousefzadeh , Rahul Sengupta , Yashaswi Karnati , Anand Rangarajan , Sanjay Ranka

Congestion in transport networks is a topic of theoretical interest and practical importance. In this paper we study the flow of vehicles in urban street networks. In particular, we use a cellular automata model to simulate the motion of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2010-12-16 Salvatore Scellato , Luigi Fortuna , Mattia Frasca , Jesús Gómez-Gardeñes , Vito Latora

Transport in crowded, complex environments occurs across many spatial scales. Geometric restrictions can hinder the motion of individuals and, combined with crowding between individuals, can have drastic effects on global transport…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-08-11 Daniel B. Wilson , Francis G. Woodhouse , Matthew J. Simpson , Ruth E. Baker

Traffic dynamics is universally crucial in analyzing and designing almost any network. This article introduces a novel theoretical approach to analyzing network traffic dynamics. This theory's machinery is based on the notion of traffic…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-04-05 Matin Macktoobian , Zhan Shu , Qing Zhao

Modeling traffic dynamics is a critical challenge for urban computing, with applications from real-time traffic management to infrastructure planning. However, progress in this area is fundamentally constrained by a lack of large-scale…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Fedor Velikonivtsev , Oleg Platonov , Ekaterina Alimaskina , Gleb Bazhenov , Liudmila Prokhorenkova

In this paper, we combine the most complete record of daily mobility, based on large-scale mobile phone data, with detailed Geographic Information System (GIS) data, uncovering previously hidden patterns in urban road usage. We find that…

Physics and Society · Physics 2012-12-24 Pu Wang , Timothy Hunter , Alexandre M. Bayen , Katja Schechtner , Marta C. González

In this work, we propose an alternative stochastic model for the fundamental diagram of traffic flow with minimal number of parameters. Our approach is based on a mesoscopic viewpoint of the traffic system in terms of the dynamics of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-02-23 Adriano Francisco Siqueira , Carlos Jose Todero Peixoto , Chen Wu , Wei-Liang Qian

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

Accurate traffic forecasting is essential for effective urban planning and congestion management. Deep learning (DL) approaches have gained colossal success in traffic forecasting but still face challenges in capturing the intricacies of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-04-19 Songtao Huang , Hongjin Song , Tianqi Jiang , Akbar Telikani , Jun Shen , Qingguo Zhou , Binbin Yong , Qiang Wu

In this paper we revisit the concept of mobility entropy. Over time, the structure of spatial interactions among urban centres tends to become more complex and evolves from centralised models to more scattered origin and destination…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-06-30 Valentina Marin , Carlos Molinero , Elsa Arcaute

We demonstrate that the distribution of betweenness centrality (BC), a global structural metric based on network flow, is an invariant quantity in most planar graphs. We confirm this invariance through an empirical analysis of street…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-07-04 Alec Kirkley , Hugo Barbosa , Marc Barthelemy , Gourab Ghoshal

The increase in congestion in surface traffic, airborne pollution, and other environmental issues have motivated the transit authorities to promote public transit worldwide. In big cities and large metropolitan areas, adding new rapid…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-09 Natividad González-Blanco , Antonio J. Lozano , Vladimir Marianov , Juan A. Mesa

Accurate and reliable prediction has profound implications to a wide range of applications. In this study, we focus on an instance of spatio-temporal learning problem--traffic prediction--to demonstrate an advanced deep learning model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Pingping Dong , Xiao-Lin Wang , Indranil Bose , Kam K. H. Ng , Xiaoning Zhang , Xiaoge Zhang

Only a fast and global transformation towards decarbonization and sustainability can keep the Earth in a civilization-friendly state. As hotspots for (green) innovation and experimentation, cities could play an important role in this…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-04-12 Niklas H. Kitzmann , Pawel Romanczuk , Jonathan F. Donges

Systems of cities at the macroscopic scale have their trajectories conditioned by the evolution of infrastructure networks. This leads to complex planning and management situations in the particular case of international transportation…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-09-01 Juste Raimbault

Modeling of urban traffic flows is required due to the complexity of their successful forecasting, as well as due to the impact of various random factors on them, and the complexity of transport systems in modern cities. Forecasting of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-05-02 Yekimov Sergiy

Mobility is a fundamental feature of human life, and through it our interactions with the world and people around us generate complex and consequential social phenomena. Social segregation, one such process, is increasingly acknowledged as…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-05-23 Yitao Yang , Erjian Liu , Bin Jia , Ed Manley

Street networks are important infrastructural transportation systems that cover a great part of the planet. It is now widely accepted that transportation properties of street networks are better understood in the interplay between the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-03-23 A. Paolo Masucci , Carlos Molinero