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An open problem in autonomous vehicle safety validation is building reliable models of human driving behavior in simulation. This work presents an approach to learn neural driving policies from real world driving demonstration data. We…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-02-08 Raunak Bhattacharyya , Blake Wulfe , Derek Phillips , Alex Kuefler , Jeremy Morton , Ransalu Senanayake , Mykel Kochenderfer

Interactive traffic simulation is crucial to autonomous driving systems by enabling testing for planners in a more scalable and safe way compared to real-world road testing. Existing approaches learn an agent model from large-scale driving…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-10-27 Qiao Sun , Xin Huang , Brian C. Williams , Hang Zhao

The ability to accurately predict and simulate human driving behavior is critical for the development of intelligent transportation systems. Traditional modeling methods have employed simple parametric models and behavioral cloning. This…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-01-25 Alex Kuefler , Jeremy Morton , Tim Wheeler , Mykel Kochenderfer

Traffic simulation is a great tool to demonstrate complex traffic structures which can be extremely useful for the planning, development, and management of road traffic networks. Current traffic simulators offer limited features when it…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-01-04 Sifatul Mostafi , Taghreed Alghamdi , Khalid Elgazzar

Advanced traffic navigation systems, which provide routing recommendations to drivers based on real-time congestion information, are nowadays widely adopted by roadway transportation users. Yet, the emerging effects on the traffic dynamics…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-12-19 Gianluca Bianchin , Fabio Pasqualetti

Traffic simulation models have long been popular in modern traffic planning and operation applications. Efficient calibration of simulation models is usually a crucial step in a simulation study. However, traditional calibration procedures…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-22 Ran Sun , Zihao Wang , Xingmin Wang , Henry X. Liu

A set of very simple rules for driving behavior used to simulate roadway traffic gives realistic results. Because of its simplicity, it is easy to implement the model on supercomputers (vectorizing and parallel), where we have achieved real…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-02-03 K. Nagel

Numerous solutions are proposed for the Traffic Signal Control (TSC) tasks aiming to provide efficient transportation and mitigate congestion waste. In recent, promising results have been attained by Reinforcement Learning (RL) methods…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-01-24 Longchao Da , Minquan Gao , Hao Mei , Hua Wei

This paper addresses the challenge of ensuring realistic traffic conditions by proposing a methodology that systematically identifies traffic simulation requirements. Using a structured approach based on sub-goals in each study phase,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Sven Tarlowski , Lutz Eckstein

Trajectory representation learning is a fundamental task for applications in fields including smart city, and urban planning, as it facilitates the utilization of trajectory data (e.g., vehicle movements) for various downstream…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Stefan Schestakov , Simon Gottschalk

Day-to-day traffic dynamics are widely used to model flow evolution due to travelers' learning and adjustment behavior, yet empirical analysis of these models often relies on descriptive calibration with limited inferential content. This…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-05 Minghui Wu , Yafeng Yin , Jerome P. Lynch , Zhichen Liu

Realistic and diverse simulation scenarios with reactive and feasible agent behaviors can be used for validation and verification of self-driving system performance without relying on expensive and time-consuming real-world testing.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Qichao Zhang , Yinfeng Gao , Yikang Zhang , Youtian Guo , Dawei Ding , Yunpeng Wang , Peng Sun , Dongbin Zhao

Traffic flow modeling relies heavily on fundamental diagrams. However, deterministic fundamental diagrams, such as single or multi-regime models, cannot capture the uncertainty pattern that underlies traffic flow. To address this…

Applications · Statistics 2024-11-25 Yuan-Zheng Lei , Yaobang Gong , Xianfeng Terry Yang

Autonomous vehicles hold great promise in improving the future of transportation. The driving models used in these vehicles are based on neural networks, which can be difficult to validate. However, ensuring the safety of these models is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-14 Maximilian Zipfl , Sven Spickermann , J. Marius Zöllner

Digital twins and other simulators are increasingly used to support routing decisions in large-scale networks. However, simulator outputs often exhibit systematic bias, while ground-truth measurements are costly and scarce. We study a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Dmytro Matsypura , Yu Pan , Hanzhao Wang

The railway industry is searching for new ways to automate a number of complex train functions, such as object detection, track discrimination, and accurate train positioning, which require the artificial perception of the railway…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Gianluca D'Amico , Mauro Marinoni , Federico Nesti , Giulio Rossolini , Giorgio Buttazzo , Salvatore Sabina , Gianluigi Lauro

Traffic simulation, complementing real-world data with a long-tail distribution, allows for effective evaluation and enhancement of the ability of autonomous vehicles to handle accident-prone scenarios. Simulating such safety-critical…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Zherui Huang , Xing Gao , Guanjie Zheng , Licheng Wen , Xuemeng Yang , Xiao Sun

Traffic simulation is a crucial tool for transportation decision-making and policy development. However, achieving realistic simulations in the face of the high dimensionality and heterogeneity of traffic environments is a longstanding…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Ding Wang , Xuhong Wang , Liang Chen , Shengyue Yao , Ming Jing , Honghai Li , Li Li , Shiqiang Bao , Fei-Yue Wang , Yilun Lin

Achieving fully autonomous driving systems requires learning rational decisions in a wide span of scenarios, including safety-critical and out-of-distribution ones. However, such cases are underrepresented in real-world corpus collected by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Haochen Tian , Tianyu Li , Haochen Liu , Jiazhi Yang , Yihang Qiu , Guang Li , Junli Wang , Yinfeng Gao , Zhang Zhang , Liang Wang , Hangjun Ye , Tieniu Tan , Long Chen , Hongyang Li

Analyzing the urban trajectory in cities has become an important topic in data mining. How can we model the human mobility consisting of stay and travel from the raw trajectory data? How can we infer such a mobility model from the single…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Lei Shi