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Monitoring and control of traffic networks represent alternative, inexpensive strategies to minimize traffic congestion. As the number of traffic sensors is naturally constrained by budgetary requirements, real-time estimation of traffic…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-11-12 Sebastian A. Nugroho , Ahmad F. Taha , Christian Claudel

Car-following models (CFMs) are fundamental to traffic flow analysis and autonomous driving. Although calibrated physics-based and trained data-driven CFMs can replicate human driving behavior, their reliance on specific datasets limits…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Chengming Wang , Dongyao Jia , Wei Wang , Dong Ngoduy , Bei Peng , Jianping Wang

Electric Vehicles (EVs) offer substantial flexibility for grid services, yet large-scale, uncoordinated charging can threaten voltage stability in distribution networks. Existing Reinforcement Learning (RL) approaches for smart charging…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-23 Stavros Orfanoudakis , Frans A. Oliehoek , Peter Palensky , Pedro P. Vergara

Physics-informed machine learning (PIML) is crucial in modern traffic flow modeling because it combines the benefits of both physics-based and data-driven approaches. In conventional PIML, physical information is typically incorporated by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Yuan-Zheng Lei , Yaobang Gong , Dianwei Chen , Yao Cheng , Xianfeng Terry Yang

This paper studies the traffic state estimation (TSE) problem using sparse observations from mobile sensors. Most existing TSE methods either rely on well-defined physical traffic flow models or require large amounts of simulation data as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-15 Xudong Wang , Yuankai Wu , Dingyi Zhuang , Lijun Sun

Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) uses diverse, unstructured data and makes RL capable of learning complex policies in high dimensional environments. Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) based on Autonomous Vehicles (AVs) offers an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-30 Anum Mushtaq , Irfan ul Haq , Muhammad Azeem Sarwar , Asifullah Khan , Omair Shafiq

Macroscopic traffic flow is stochastic, but the physics-informed deep learning methods currently used in transportation literature embed deterministic PDEs and produce point-valued outputs; the stochasticity of the governing dynamics plays…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-11 Wuping Xin

Latest technological improvements increased the quality of transportation. New data-driven approaches bring out a new research direction for all control-based systems, e.g., in transportation, robotics, IoT and power systems. Combining…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Ammar Haydari , Yasin Yilmaz

This paper explores Deep Learning (DL) methods that are used or have the potential to be used for traffic video analysis, emphasizing driving safety for both Autonomous Vehicles (AVs) and human-operated vehicles. We present a typical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-07 Abolfazl Razi , Xiwen Chen , Huayu Li , Hao Wang , Brendan Russo , Yan Chen , Hongbin Yu

Recent advances in imitative reinforcement learning (IRL) have considerably enhanced the ability of autonomous agents to assimilate expert demonstrations, leading to rapid skill acquisition in a range of demanding tasks. However, such…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Hang Zhou , Yihao Qin , Dan Xu , Yiding Ji

Traffic management in a city has become a major problem due to the increasing number of vehicles on roads. Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) can help the city traffic managers to tackle the problem by providing accurate traffic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-04 Shatrughan Modi , Jhilik Bhattacharya , Prasenjit Basak

Physics-informed machine learning (PIML) is an emerging framework that integrates physical knowledge into machine learning models. This physical prior often takes the form of a partial differential equation (PDE) system that the regression…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-07-15 Nathan Doumèche

Traditional data-driven deep learning models often struggle with high training costs, error accumulation, and poor generalizability in complex physical processes. Physics-informed deep learning (PiDL) addresses these challenges by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Xin-Yang Liu , Min Zhu , Lu Lu , Hao Sun , Jian-Xun Wang

Recent achievements in deep learning (DL) have shown its potential for predicting traffic flows. Such predictions are beneficial for understanding the situation and making decisions in traffic control. However, most state-of-the-art DL…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Zezheng Feng , Yifan Jiang , Hongjun Wang , Zipei Fan , Yuxin Ma , Shuang-Hua Yang , Huamin Qu , Xuan Song

We consider the problem of traffic density reconstruction using measurements from probe vehicles (PVs) with a low penetration rate. In other words, the number of sensors is small compared to the number of vehicles on the road. The model…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-09-23 Matthieu Barreau , Miguel Aguiar , John Liu , Karl Henrik Johansson

This paper addresses the problem of traffic state estimation (TSE) in the presence of heterogeneous sensors which include both fixed and moving sensors. Traditional fixed sensors are expensive and cannot be installed throughout the highway.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-04 Suyash C. Vishnoi , Sebastian A. Nugroho , Ahmad F. Taha , Christian G. Claudel

This study investigates why physics-informed machine learning (PIML) can fail in macroscopic traffic flow modeling. We define failure as cases where a PIML model underperforms both purely data-driven and purely physics-based baselines by a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Yuan-Zheng Lei , Yaobang Gong , Dianwei Chen , Yao Cheng , Xianfeng Terry Yang

Intelligent transport systems (ITS) are pivotal in the development of sustainable and green urban living. ITS is data-driven and enabled by the profusion of sensors ranging from pneumatic tubes to smart cameras. This work explores a novel…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-14 Chia-Yen Chiang , Mona Jaber , Peter Hayward

High-performance traffic flow prediction model designing, a core technology of Intelligent Transportation System, is a long-standing but still challenging task for industrial and academic communities. The lack of integration between…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-07 Jiahao Ji , Jingyuan Wang , Zhe Jiang , Jiawei Jiang , Hu Zhang

Distribution system state estimation (DSSE) is paramount for effective state monitoring and control. However, stochastic outputs of renewables and asynchronous streaming of multi-rate measurements in practical systems largely degrade the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-23 Ying Zhang , Junbo Zhao , Di Shi , Sungjoo Chung