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Many transport processes on networks depend crucially on the underlying network geometry, although the exact relationship between the structure of the network and the properties of transport processes remain elusive. In this paper we…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-06-26 Bosiljka Tadic , G. J. Rodgers , Stefan Thurner

The traffic assignment problem is essential for traffic flow analysis, traditionally solved using mathematical programs under the Equilibrium principle. These methods become computationally prohibitive for large-scale networks due to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Mostafa Ameli , Sulthana Shams , Van Anh Le , Alexander Skabardonis

Motivated by developments in renewable energy and smart grids, we formulate a stylized mathematical model of a transport network with stochastic load fluctuations. Using an affine control rule, we explore the trade-off between the number of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-02-24 Alessandro Zocca , Bert Zwart

Understanding how users navigate in a network is of high interest in many applications. We consider a setting where only aggregate node-level traffic is observed and tackle the task of learning edge transition probabilities. We cast it as a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-06-16 Lucas Maystre , Matthias Grossglauser

Various statistical analysis methods are studied for years to extract accurate trends of network traffic and predict the future load mainly to allocate required resources. Besides, many stochastic modeling techniques are offered to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-12-30 Doğanalp Ergenç , Ertan Onur

This book covers static and dynamic traffic assignment models used in transportation planning and network analysis. Traffic assignment is the final step in the traditional planning process, and recent decades have seen many advances in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-11 Stephen D. Boyles , Nicholas E. Lownes , Avinash Unnikrishnan

Congestion in transport networks is a topic of theoretical interest and practical importance. In this paper we study the flow of vehicles in urban street networks. In particular, we use a cellular automata model to simulate the motion of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2010-12-16 Salvatore Scellato , Luigi Fortuna , Mattia Frasca , Jesús Gómez-Gardeñes , Vito Latora

Network optimization has generally been focused on solving network flow problems, but recently there have been investigations into optimizing network characteristics. Optimizing network connectivity to maximize the number of nodes within a…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-08-03 Jeremy Auerbach , Hyun Kim

Macroscopic traffic models are necessary for simulation and study of traffic's complex macro-scale dynamics, and are often used by practitioners for road network planning, integrated corridor management, and other applications. These models…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-09-22 Matthew A. Wright , Gabriel Gomes , Roberto Horowitz , Alex A. Kurzhanskiy

In this paper, we design a stochastic Model Predictive Control (MPC) traffic signal control method for an urban traffic network when the uncertainties in the estimation of the exogenous (in/out)-flows and the turning ratios of downstream…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-05 Viet Hoang Pham , Hyo-Sung Ahn

Accurate and reliable traffic forecasting for complicated transportation networks is of vital importance to modern transportation management. The complicated spatial dependencies of roadway links and the dynamic temporal patterns of traffic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-13 Xiaolei Ma , Yi Li , Zhiyong Cui , Yinhai Wang

This paper proposes a generalised framework for density estimation in large networks with measurable spatiotemporal variance in edge weights. We solve the stochastic shortest path problem for a large network by estimating the density of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-06-29 Raashid Altaf , Pravesh Biyani

Link dimensioning is used by ISPs to properly provision the capacity of their network links. Operators have to make provisions for sudden traffic bursts and network failures to assure uninterrupted operations. In practice, traffic averages…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-10-03 Mohammed Alasmar , Nickolay Zakhleniuk

Numerous networks, such as transportation, distribution and delivery networks optimize their designs in order to increase efficiency and lower costs, improving the stability of its intended functions, etc. Networks that distribute goods,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-03-26 Fabricio L. Forgerini , Orahcio F. de Sousa

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

We analyze transport on a graph with multiple constraints and where the weight of the edges connecting the nodes is a dynamical variable. The network dynamics results from the interplay between a nonlinear function of the flow, dissipation,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-11-28 Frederic Folz , Kurt Mehlhorn , Giovanna Morigi

We study stochastic dynamical systems in settings where only partial statistical information about the noise is available, e.g., in the form of a limited number of noise realizations. Such systems are particularly challenging to analyze and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-04-06 Liviu Aolaritei , Nicolas Lanzetti , Florian Dörfler

Transportation and distribution networks are a class of spatial networks that have been of interest in recent years. These networks are often characterized by the presence of complex structures such as central loops paired with peripheral…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-01-23 Sebastiano Bontorin , Giulia Cencetti , Riccardo Gallotti , Bruno Lepri , Manlio De Domenico

A classic network tomography problem is estimation of properties of the distribution of route traffic volumes based on counts taken on the network links. We consider inference for a general class of models for integer-valued traffic. Model…

Methodology · Statistics 2015-06-03 Martin L. Hazelton

In this paper, a network-based stochastic information propagation model is developed. The information flow is modeled by a probabilistic differential equation system. The numerical solution of these equations leads to the expected number of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-06-02 Peter Laszlo Juhasz