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Rapid urbanization places increasing stress on already burdened transportation systems, resulting in delays and poor levels of service. Billions of spatiotemporal call detail records (CDRs) collected from mobile devices create new…

Physics and Society · Physics 2014-03-05 Jameson L. Toole , Serdar Colak , Fahad Alhasoun , Alexandre Evsukoff , Marta C. Gonzalez

Due to the complexity of the traffic flow dynamics in urban road networks, most quantitative descriptions of city traffic so far are based on computer simulations. This contribution pursues a macroscopic (fluid-dynamic) simulation approach,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-03-18 Amin Mazloumian , Nikolas Geroliminis , Dirk Helbing

Predicting traffic conditions has been recently explored as a way to relieve traffic congestion. Several pioneering approaches have been proposed based on traffic observations of the target location as well as its adjacent regions, but they…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Xingyi Cheng , Ruiqing Zhang , Jie Zhou , Wei Xu

In an increasingly interconnected world, understanding congestion-related phenomena in transportation and their underlying mechanisms is crucial for improving efficiency. As the transportation system becomes denser, different modes of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-04-04 Sakurako Tanida , Thorsten Pöschel

Understanding the dynamics of traffic clusters is crucial for enhancing urban transportation systems, particularly in managing congestion and free-flow states. This study applies computational percolation theory to analyze the formation and…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-07-30 Yongsung Kwon , Minjin Lee , Mi Jin Lee , Seung-Woo Son

Traffic prediction is one of the key elements to ensure the safety and convenience of citizens. Existing traffic prediction models primarily focus on deep learning architectures to capture spatial and temporal correlation. They often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Sumin Han , Youngjun Park , Minji Lee , Jisun An , Dongman Lee

Stability of Wardrop equilibria is analyzed for dynamical transportation networks in which the drivers' route choices are influenced by information at multiple temporal and spatial scales. The considered model involves a continuum of…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2015-03-17 Giacomo Como , Ketan Savla , Daron Acemoglu , Munther A. Dahleh , Emilio Frazzoli

We study network traffic dynamics in a two dimensional communication network with regular nodes and hubs. If the network experiences heavy message traffic, congestion occurs due to finite capacity of the nodes. We discuss strategies to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Brajendra K. Singh , Neelima Gupte

The congestion of a motorway section is propagated to its neighbouring sections, leading to correlations. The resulting correlation matrix encodes the information on congestion. Here, we study symmetrized time-lagged correlations and show…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-08-01 Gabor B. Hollbeck , René Pilarczyk , Shanshan Wang , Michael Schreckenberg , Thomas Guhr

This paper considers the problem of routing and rebalancing a shared fleet of autonomous (i.e., self-driving) vehicles providing on-demand mobility within a capacitated transportation network, where congestion might disrupt throughput. We…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2017-08-15 Rick Zhang , Federico Rossi , Marco Pavone

Recent studies on transportation networks have shown that real-time route guidance can inadvertently induce congestion or oscillatory traffic patterns. Nevertheless, such technologies also offer a promising opportunity to manage traffic…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-21 Shaya Garjani , Ashish Cherukuri , Bayu Jayawardhana , Nima Monshizadeh

We numerically investigate jamming transitions in complex heterogeneous networks. Inspired by Internet routing protocols, we study a general model that incorporates local traffic information through a tunable parameter. The results show…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Pablo Echenique , Jesus Gomez-Gardenes , Yamir Moreno

Networks embedded in space can display all sorts of transitions when their structure is modified. The nature of these transitions (and in some cases crossovers) can differ from the usual appearance of a giant component as observed for the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-12-19 Marc Barthelemy

The causal connection between congestions and velocity changes at different locations induces various statistical features, which we identify and measure in detail. We carry out an empirical analysis of large-scale traffic data on a local…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-10-10 Shanshan Wang , Michael Schreckenberg , Thomas Guhr

Work zone is one of the major causes of non-recurrent traffic congestion and road incidents. Despite the significance of its impact, studies on predicting the traffic impact of work zones remain scarce. In this paper, we propose a data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-03 Qinhua Jiang , Xishun Liao , Yaofa Gong , Jiaqi Ma

We present large scale and detailed analysis of the microscopic empirical data of the traffic flow, focusing on the non-linear interactions between the vehicles when the traffic is congested. By implementing a "renormalisation" procedure…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2016-03-15 Bo Yang , Ji Wei Yoon , Christopher Monterola

The discovery of spatio-temporal dependencies within urban road networks that cause Recurrent Congestion (RC) patterns is crucial for numerous real-world applications, including urban planning and scheduling of public transportation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-21 Nicolas Tempelmeier , Udo Feuerhake , Oskar Wage , Elena Demidova

Understanding the resilience of infrastructures such as transportation network has significant importance for our daily life. Recently, a homogeneous spatial network model was developed for studying spatial embedded networks with…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-06-24 Bnaya Gross , Dana Vaknin , Sergey V. Buldyrev , Shlomo Havlin

We investigate the behavior of extended urban traffic networks within the framework of percolation theory by using real and synthetic traffic data. Our main focus shifts from the statistical properties of the cluster size distribution…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-07-21 Marco Cogoni , Giovanni Busonera

One abstract method for the study of network transportation is proposed in this paper. By interpolating the properties of the edges that constitute network into the two leading parameters of the nodes, this method can abstract the…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2007-05-23 Chang Yun-Feng , Xu Cai