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Urbanization and technological advancements are reshaping urban mobility, presenting both challenges and opportunities. This paper investigates how Artificial Intelligence (AI)-driven technologies can impact traffic congestion dynamics and…

General Economics · Economics 2025-01-08 Katsiaryna Bahamazava

As deep spatio-temporal neural networks are increasingly utilised in urban computing contexts, the deployment of such methods can have a direct impact on users of critical urban infrastructure, such as public transport, emergency services,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Sichen Zhao , Wei Shao , Jeffrey Chan , Ziqi Xu , Flora Salim

This study examines the potential impact of reinforcement learning (RL)-enabled autonomous vehicles (AV) on urban traffic flow in a mixed traffic environment. We focus on a simplified day-to-day route choice problem in a multi-agent…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Ahmet Onur Akman , Anastasia Psarou , Zoltán György Varga , Grzegorz Jamróz , Rafał Kucharski

With the global energy transition and the rapid penetration of electric vehicles (EVs), the widening travel cost gap between EVs and gasoline vehicles (GVs) increasingly affects commuters' route choices and may reshape urban congestion…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-10 Xiaohan Xu , Wei Ma , Zhiheng Shi , Xiaotong Xu , Bin He , Kairui Feng

Emergency vehicles (EMVs) play a critical role in a city's response to time-critical events such as medical emergencies and fire outbreaks. The existing approaches to reduce EMV travel time employ route optimization and traffic signal…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Haoran Su , Yaofeng Desmond Zhong , Biswadip Dey , Amit Chakraborty

Autonomous deployment of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) supporting next-generation communication networks requires efficient trajectory planning methods. We propose a new end-to-end reinforcement learning (RL) approach to UAV-enabled data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-28 Harald Bayerlein , Mirco Theile , Marco Caccamo , David Gesbert

Over the last decade, the rise of the mobile internet and the usage of mobile devices has enabled ubiquitous traffic information. With the increased adoption of specific smartphone applications, the number of users of routing applications…

This paper proposes a cooperative strategy of connected and automated vehicles (CAVs) longitudinal control for partially connected and automated traffic environment based on deep reinforcement learning (DRL) algorithm, which enhances the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-04 Haotian Shi , Yang Zhou , Keshu Wu , Xin Wang , Yangxin Lin , Bin Ran

Vehicular cloud (VC) platforms integrate heterogeneous and distributed resources of moving vehicles to offer timely and cost-effective computing services. However, the dynamic nature of VCs (i.e., limited contact duration among vehicles),…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-08-29 Zhang Liu , Minghui Liwang , Seyyedali Hosseinalipour , Huaiyu Dai , Zhibin Gao , Lianfen Huang

Problem definition: Motivated by global electrification targets and the advent of electric modular autonomous units (E-MAUs), this paper addresses a robust charging station location and routing-scheduling problem (E-RCRSP) in an inter-modal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-08 Dongyang Xia , Lixing Yang , Yahan Lu , Shadi Sharif Azadeh

A number of deep reinforcement-learning (RL) approaches propose to control traffic signals. In this work, we study the robustness of such methods along two axes. First, sensor failures and GPS occlusions create missing-data challenges and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Tianyu Shi , Francois-Xavier Devailly , Denis Larocque , Laurent Charlin

Bike sharing is a vital component of a modern multi-modal transportation system. However, its implementation can lead to bike supply-demand imbalance due to fluctuating spatial and temporal demands. This study proposes a comprehensive…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-06-11 Lei Lin

This paper proposes a fully dynamic Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) method for rebalancing dockless bike-sharing systems, overcoming the limitations of periodic, system-wide interventions. We model the service through a graph-based…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-15 Edoardo Scarpel , Alberto Pettena , Matteo Cederle , Federico Chiariotti , Marco Fabris , Gian Antonio Susto

This work optimizes the highway decision making strategy of autonomous vehicles by using deep reinforcement learning (DRL). First, the highway driving environment is built, wherein the ego vehicle, surrounding vehicles, and road lanes are…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-07-17 Teng Liu , Xingyu Mu , Xiaolin Tang , Bing Huang , Hong Wang , Dongpu Cao

This paper presents a dedicated Deep Neural Network (DNN) architecture that reconstructs space-time traffic speeds on freeways given sparse data. The DNN is constructed in such a way, that it learns heterogeneous congestion patterns using a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-21 Felix Rempe , Philipp Franeck , Klaus Bogenberger

Digital technology is fundamentally transforming human mobility. Route choices in particular are greatly affected by the availability of traffic data, increased connectivity of data sources and cheap access to computational resources.…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-06-01 David-Maximilian Storch , Malte Schröder , Marc Timme

With the explosive growth in demand for mobile traffic, one of the promising solutions is to offload cellular traffic to small base stations for better system efficiency. Due to increasing system complexity, network operators are facing…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Chih-Wei Huang , Po-Chen Chen

This paper presents a dynamic routing guidance system that optimizes route recommendations for individual vehicles in an emerging transportation system while enhancing travelers' trip equity. We develop a framework to quantify trip quality…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-14 Ting Bai , Anni Li , Gehui Xu , Christos G. Cassandras , Andreas A. Malikopoulos

High-tech giants and start-ups are investing in drone technologies to provide urban air delivery service, which is expected to solve the last-mile problem and mitigate road traffic congestion. However, air delivery service will not scale up…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2022-08-19 Xinyu He , Fang He , Lishuai Li , Lei Zhang , Gang Xiao