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Major cities worldwide experience problems with the performance of their road transportation networks, and the continuous increase in traffic demand presents a substantial challenge to the optimal operation of urban road networks and the…

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Trajectory representation learning plays a pivotal role in supporting various downstream tasks. Traditional methods in order to filter the noise in GPS trajectories tend to focus on routing-based methods used to simplify the trajectories.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-28 Zhipeng Ma , Zheyan Tu , Xinhai Chen , Yan Zhang , Deguo Xia , Guyue Zhou , Yilun Chen , Yu Zheng , Jiangtao Gong

This paper investigates the connections between rectified flows, flow matching, and optimal transport. Flow matching is a recent approach to learning generative models by estimating velocity fields that guide transformations from a source…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Johannes Hertrich , Antonin Chambolle , Julie Delon

The congestion formation on a urban road network is one of the key issue for the development of a sustainable mobility in the future smart cities. In this work we propose a reductionist approach studying the stationary states of a simple…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-05-28 Lorenzo Di Meco , Mirko Degli Esposti , Federico Bellisardi , Armando Bazzani

Non-recurrent traffic congestion (NRTC) usually brings unexpected delays to commuters. Hence, it is critical to accurately detect and recognize the NRTC in a real-time manner. The advancement of road traffic detectors and loop detectors…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-05-12 Qin Li , Huachun Tan , Xizhu Jiang , Yuankai Wu , Linhui Ye

This paper develops a data-driven toolkit for traffic forecasting using high-resolution (a.k.a. event-based) traffic data. This is the raw data obtained from fixed sensors in urban roads. Time series of such raw data exhibit heavy…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-01 Wenqing Li , Chuhan Yang , Saif Eddin Jabari

Traffic flow forecasting is of great significance for improving the efficiency of transportation systems and preventing emergencies. Due to the highly non-linearity and intricate evolutionary patterns of short-term and long-term traffic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Xu Chen , Yuanxing Zhang , Lun Du , Zheng Fang , Yi Ren , Kaigui Bian , Kunqing Xie

Despite abundant accessible traffic data, researches on traffic flow estimation and optimization still face the dilemma of detailedness and integrity in the measurement. A dataset of city-scale vehicular continuous trajectories featuring…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Yimin Wang , Yixian Chen , Guilong Li , Yuhuan Lu , Zhi Yu , Zhaocheng He

Traffic flow simulation within the domain of intelligent transportation systems is garnering significant attention, and generating realistic, diverse, and human-like traffic patterns presents critical challenges that must be addressed.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Ze Fu , Licheng Wen , Pinlong Cai , Daocheng Fu , Song Mao , Botian Shi

Transforming road network data into vector representations using deep learning has proven effective for road network analysis. However, urban road networks' heterogeneous and hierarchical nature poses challenges for accurate representation…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Jian Yang , Jiahui Wu , Li Fang , Hongchao Fan , Bianying Zhang , Huijie Zhao , Guangyi Yang , Rui Xin , Xiong You

This article deals with the observation problem in traffic flow theory. The model used is the semilinear viscous Burgers equation. Instead of using the traditional fixed sensors to estimate the state of the traffic at given points, the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-07-21 Matthieu Barreau , Anton Selivanov , Karl Henrik Johansson

Traffic Intersections are vital to urban road networks as they regulate the movement of people and goods. However, they are regions of conflicting trajectories and are prone to accidents. Deep Generative models of traffic dynamics at…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Yash Ranjan , Rahul Sengupta , Anand Rangarajan , Sanjay Ranka

This article investigates the use of a model-based neural-network for the traffic reconstruction problem using noisy measurements coming from probe vehicles. The traffic state is assumed to be the density only, modeled by a partial…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-11-18 John Liu , Matthieu Barreau , Mladen Cicic , Karl H. Johansson

We study a minimal model of traffic flows in complex networks, simple enough to get analytical results, but with a very rich phenomenology, presenting continuous, discontinuous as well as hybrid phase transitions between a free-flow phase…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-13 Daniele De Martino , Luca Dall'Asta , Ginestra Bianconi , Matteo Marsili

We propose a new video representation in terms of an over-segmentation of dense trajectories covering the whole video. Trajectories are often used to encode long-temporal information in several computer vision applications. Similar to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Ijaz Akhter , Cheong Loong Fah , Richard Hartley

Using the growing volumes of vehicle trajectory data, it becomes increasingly possible to capture time-varying and uncertain travel costs in a road network, including travel time and fuel consumption. The current paradigm represents a road…

Databases · Computer Science 2015-12-07 Jian Dai , Bin Yang , Chenjuan Guo , Christian S. Jensen

Streets networks provide an invaluable source of information about the different temporal and spatial patterns emerging in our cities. These streets are often represented as graphs where intersections are modelled as nodes and streets as…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-11-10 Mateo Neira , Roberto Murcio

Following [21, 23], the present work investigates a new relative entropy-regularized algorithm for solving the optimal transport on a graph problem within the randomized shortest paths formalism. More precisely, a unit flow is injected into…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Sylvain Courtain , Guillaume Guex , Ilkka Kivimaki , Marco Saerens

Statistical traffic data analysis is a hot topic in traffic management and control. In this field, current research progresses focus on analyzing traffic flows of individual links or local regions in a transportation network. Less attention…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2012-12-24 Yufei Han , Fabien Moutarde

Motion is a fundamental cue for scene analysis and human activity understan- ding in videos. It can be encoded in trajectories for tracking objects and for action recognition, or in form of flow to address behaviour analysis in crowded…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-09-30 Eduardo M. Pereira , Jaime S. Cardoso , Ricardo Morla