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To tackle ever-increasing city traffic congestion problems, researchers have proposed deep learning models to aid decision-makers in the traffic control domain. Although the proposed models have been remarkably improved in recent years,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-10 Hyunwook Lee , Cheonbok Park , Seungmin Jin , Hyeshin Chu , Jaegul Choo , Sungahn Ko

The propagation of traffic congestion along roads is a commonplace nonlinear phenomenon. When many roads are connected in a network, congestion can spill from one road to others as drivers queue to enter a congested road, creating further…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-06-18 Matthew A. Wright , Roberto Horowitz , Alex A. Kurzhanskiy

This paper introduces a novel approach that seeks a middle ground for traffic control in multi-lane congestion, where prevailing traffic speeds are too fast, and speed recommendations designed to dampen traffic waves are too slow. Advanced…

Deep neural networks can be powerful tools, but require careful application-specific design to ensure that the most informative relationships in the data are learnable. In this paper, we apply deep neural networks to the nonlinear…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-04 Matthew A. Wright , Simon F. G. Ehlers , Roberto Horowitz

Tracking congestion throughout the network road is a critical component of Intelligent transportation network management systems. Understanding how the traffic flows and short-term prediction of congestion occurrence due to rush-hour or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-07-27 Mohammadhani Fouladgar , Mostafa Parchami , Ramez Elmasri , Amir Ghaderi

Macroscopic traffic flow models are essential for analysing traffic dynamics in highways and urban roads. While second-order models like METANET capture non-equilibrium traffic states, they often produce unrealistic speed predictions, such…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-03-25 Weiming Zhao , Claudio Roncoli , Mehmet Yildirimoglu

Traffic prediction has long been a focal and pivotal area in research, witnessing both significant strides from city-level to road-level predictions in recent years. With the advancement of Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) technologies,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Shuhao Li , Yue Cui , Jingyi Xu , Libin Li , Lingkai Meng , Weidong Yang , Fan Zhang , Xiaofang Zhou

Traffic scene perception in computer vision is a critically important task to achieve intelligent cities. To date, most existing datasets focus on autonomous driving scenes. We observe that the models trained on those driving datasets often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Peng-Tao Jiang , Yuqi Yang , Yang Cao , Qibin Hou , Ming-Ming Cheng , Chunhua Shen

This work examines the implications of uncoupled intersections with local real-world topology and sensor setup on traffic light control approaches. Control approaches are evaluated with respect to: Traffic flow, fuel consumption and noise…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-11-29 Mark Schutera , Niklas Goby , Stefan Smolarek , Markus Reischl

This paper proposes a set of technological solutions to transform existing transport systems into more intelligent, interactive systems by utilizing optimization and control methods that can be implemented in the near future. This will…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-31 Yi Zhang

Intersection is one of the most complex and accident-prone urban scenarios for autonomous driving wherein making safe and computationally efficient decisions is non-trivial. Current research mainly focuses on the simplified traffic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-11 Yangang Ren , Jianhua Jiang , Dongjie Yu , Shengbo Eben Li , Jingliang Duan , Chen Chen , Keqiang Li

Traffic speed prediction is the key to many valuable applications, and it is also a challenging task because of its various influencing factors. Recent work attempts to obtain more information through various hybrid models, thereby…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-25 Pengyu Fu , Liang Chu , Zhuoran Hou , Jincheng Hu , Yanjun Huang , Yuanjian Zhang

Traffic control optimization is a challenging task for various traffic centers around the world and the majority of existing approaches focus only on developing adaptive methods under normal (recurrent) traffic conditions. Optimizing the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Tuo Mao , Adriana-Simona Mihaita , Fang Chen , Hai L. Vu

Accurate traffic flow prediction, a hotspot for intelligent transportation research, is the prerequisite for mastering traffic and making travel plans. The speed of traffic flow can be affected by roads condition, weather, holidays, etc.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-15 Jianlei Kong , Xiaomeng Fan , Xue-Bo Jin , Min Zuo

Well-calibrated traffic flow models are fundamental to understanding traffic phenomena and designing control strategies. Traditional calibration has been developed base on optimization methods. In this paper, we propose a novel…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Yu Tang , Li Jin , Kaan Ozbay

Traffic prediction plays an essential role in intelligent transportation system. Accurate traffic prediction can assist route planing, guide vehicle dispatching, and mitigate traffic congestion. This problem is challenging due to the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-22 Xueyan Yin , Genze Wu , Jinze Wei , Yanming Shen , Heng Qi , Baocai Yin

We propose a stochastic model for the intersection of two urban streets. The traffic state at the crossroads is controlled by a set of traffic lights, which periodically switch to red and green with a total period of T. Vehicular dynamics…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Ebrahim Fouladvand , Nima Hamedani Radja

Traffic microsimulation is a crucial tool that uses microscopic traffic models, such as car-following and lane-change models, to simulate the trajectories of individual agents. This digital platform allows for the assessment of the impact…

Applications · Statistics 2024-10-01 Yanbing Wang , Felipe de Souza , Dominik Karbowski

This study addresses multilane vehicular traffic modelling, focusing on the transition between microscopic (individual vehicle-based) to macroscopic (aggregate flow-based) descriptions. While previous research on multilane traffic has…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-09-09 Matteo Piu , Giuseppe Visconti , Gabriella Puppo

A most important aspect in the field of traffic modeling is the simulation of bottleneck situations. For their realistic description a macroscopic multi-lane model for uni-directional freeways including acceleration, deceleration, velocity…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Dirk Helbing