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We consider the problem of traffic density estimation with sparse measurements from stationary roadside sensors. Our approach uses Fourier neural operators to learn macroscopic traffic flow dynamics from high-fidelity data. During…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-05 Alice Harting , Karl Henrik Johansson , Matthieu Barreau

In this work, we introduce a novel first-order nonlocal partial differential equation with saturated diffusion to describe the macroscopic behavior of traffic dynamics. We show how the proposed model is better in comparison with existing…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-02 Dawson Do , Hossein Nick Zinat Matin , Masuma Mollika Miti , Maria Laura Delle Monache

Inference of detailed vehicle trajectories is crucial for applications such as traffic flow modeling, energy consumption estimation, and traffic flow optimization. Static sensors can provide only aggregated information, posing challenges in…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-24 Yifan Zhang , Anastasios Kouvelas , Michail A. Makridis

The randomly driven Burgers equation with pressure is considered as a 1D model of strong turbulence of compressible fluid. It is shown that infinitely small pressure provides a finite effect on the velocity and density statistics and this…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 S. Boldyrev

In two intersecting many-particle streams, one can often find the emergence of oscillatory patterns. Here, we investigate the interaction of pedestrians with vehicles, when they try to cross a road. A numerical study of this coupled…

Physics and Society · Physics 2007-05-23 Dirk Helbing , Rui Jiang , Martin Treiber

We derive macroscopic traffic equations from specific gas-kinetic equations, dropping some of the assumptions and approximations made in previous papers. The resulting partial differential equations for the vehicle density and average…

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

Despite the importance of urban traffic flows, there are only a few theoretical approaches to determine fundamental relationships between macroscopic traffic variables such as the traffic density, the utilization, the average velocity, and…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-11-13 Dirk Helbing

We consider a multi-dimensional model of a compressible fluid in a bounded domain. We want to estimate the density and velocity of the fluid, based on the observations for only velocity. We build an observer exploiting the symmetries of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-11-24 Amit Apte , Didier Auroux , Mythily Ramaswamy

In this paper, we introduce a new conservation-based approach to model traffic dynamics, and apply the model predictive control (MPC) approach to control the boundary traffic inflow and outflow, so that the traffic congestion is reduced. We…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-12 Xun Liu , Hossein Rastgoftar

This paper studies a stochastic model that describes the evolution of vehicle densities in a road network. It is consistent with the class of (deterministic) kinematic wave models, which describe traffic flows on the basis of conservation…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-02-11 Michel Mandjes , Jaap Storm

In the Optimal Velocity Model proposed as a new version of Car Following Model, it has been found that a congested flow is generated spontaneously from a homogeneous flow for a certain range of the traffic density. A well-established…

patt-sol · Physics 2009-10-30 K. Nakanishi , K. Itoh , Y. Igarashi , M. Bando

Traffic flow at low densities (free traffic) is characterized by a quasi-one-dimensional relation between traffic flow and vehicle density, while no such fundamental diagram exists for `synchronized' congested traffic flow. Instead, a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Dirk Helbing , Davide Batic , Martin Schoenhof , Martin Treiber

This paper develops boundary observer for estimation of congested freeway traffic states based on Aw-Rascle-Zhang(ARZ) partial differential equations (PDE) model. Traffic state estimation refers to acquisition of traffic state information…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-05-01 Huan Yu , Alexandre M. Bayen , Miroslav Krstic

A microscopic criterion for distinguishing synchronized flow and wide moving jam phases in single vehicle data measured at a single freeway location is presented. Empirical local congested traffic states in single vehicle data measured on…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-11-11 Boris S. Kerner , Sergey L. Klenov , Andreas Hiller

We consider the traffic data reconstruction problem. Suppose we have the traffic data of an entire city that are incomplete because some road data are unobserved. The problem is to reconstruct the unobserved parts of the data. In this…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-02-07 Shun Kataoka , Muneki Yasuda , Cyril Furtlehner , Kazuyuki Tanaka

Traffic violations like illegal parking, illegal turning, and speeding have become one of the greatest challenges in urban transportation systems, bringing potential risks of traffic congestions, vehicle accidents, and parking difficulties.…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-08-24 Zhihan Jiang , Longbiao Chen , Binbin Zhou , Jinchun Huang , Tianqi Xie , Xiaoliang Fan , Cheng Wang

Traffic safety at intersections is studied quantitatively using methods from Statistical Mechanics on the basis of simple microscopic traffic flow models. In order to determine a relationship between traffic flow and the number of crashes,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-11-17 Andreas Leich , Ronald Nippold , Andreas Schadschneider , Peter Wagner

Traffic waves can rise even from single lane car-following behaviour. To better understand and mitigate traffic waves, it is necessary to use analytical tools like mathematical models, data analysis, and micro-simulations that can capture…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-10-10 Nour Khoudari , Rabie Ramadan , Megan Ross , Benjamin Seibold

We propose a statistical learning-based traffic speed estimation method that uses sparse vehicle trajectory information. Using a convolutional encoder-decoder based architecture, we show that a well trained neural network can learn…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-06-15 Ouafa Benkraouda , Bilal Thonnam Thodi , Hwasoo Yeo , Monica Menendez , Saif Eddin Jabari

The interest to use probe vehicles for traffic monitoring is growing. This paper is focused on the estimation of flow rate from probe vehicle data and the evaluation of sample size requirements. Three cases are considered depending on the…

Applications · Statistics 2020-01-17 Mecit Cetin , Gurcan Comert