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The trajectory planning problem (TPP) has become increasingly crucial in the research of next-generation transportation systems, but it presents challenges due to the non-linearity of its constraints. One specific case within TPP, namely…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-24 Yuanzheng Lei , Yao Cheng , Xianfeng Terry Yang

Payment channel hub (PCH), by leveraging a powerful hub to reliably provide off-chain payment services, offers an effective enhancement to payment channel networks (PCNs). However, existing approaches typically rely on a single hub to relay…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Lingxiao Yang , Xuewen Dong , Wei Wang , Yong Yu , Sheng Gao , Qiang Qu , Yulong Shen

We design a concept for an autonomous underground freight transport system for Hanover, Germany. To evaluate the resulting system changes in overall traffic flows from an environmental perspective, we carried out an agent-based traffic…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-09-21 Lasse Bienzeisler , Torben Lelke , Bernhard Friedrich

In recent years, a large number of smart devices will be connected in Internet of Things (IoT) using an ad hoc network, which needs more frequency spectra. The cognitive radio (CR) technology can improve spectrum utilization in an…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-03-27 Xiaoxiong Zhong , Li Li , Yuanping Zhang , Bin Zhang , Weizhe Zhang , Tingting Yang

This research delves into advanced route optimization for robots in smart logistics, leveraging a fusion of Transformer architectures, Graph Neural Networks (GNNs), and Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs). The approach utilizes a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Hao Luo , Jianjun Wei , Shuchen Zhao , Ankai Liang , Zhongjin Xu , Ruxue Jiang

The use of underground freight transportation (UFT) is gaining attention because of its ability to quickly move freight to locations in urban areas while reducing road traffic and the need for delivery drivers. Since packages are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-05-09 Sarah Powell , Ann Melissa Campbell , Mojtaba Hosseini

In order to achieve both fast and coordinated data transfer to collaborative sites as well as to create a distribution of data over multiple sites, efficient data movement is one of the most essential aspects in distributed environment.…

Performance · Computer Science 2009-04-14 Michal Zerola , Jerome Lauret , Roman Bartak , Michal Sumbera

In this paper we present a model predictive control (MPC) approach to optimize vehicle scheduling and routing in an autonomous mobility-on-demand (AMoD) system. In AMoD systems, robotic, self-driving vehicles transport customers within an…

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

In order to reduce the carbon emission, the related government departments encourage road freights to be transferred more by railway transportation. In China freight transport system, the road transportation is usually responsible for the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-06-23 Boliang Lin

Today's era is characterized as the "digital transformation era". Digital processes and information systems are used in every aspect of social and business activity. The use of information technology over the internet is so extensive that…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Sotiris P. Gayialis , Evripidis P. Kechagias , Angeliki Deligianni , Grigorios D. Konstantakopoulos , Georgios A. Papadopoulos

Vehicle platooning facilitates the partial automation of vehicles and can significantly reduce fuel consumption. Mobile communication infrastructure makes it possible to dynamically coordinate the formation of platoons en route. We consider…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-02-25 Sebastian van de Hoef , Karl H. Johansson , Dimos V. Dimarogonas

This paper addresses the pressing challenge of urban mobility in the context of growing urban populations, changing demand patterns for urban mobility, and emerging technologies like Mobility-on-Demand (MoD) platforms and Autonomous Vehicle…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-04-10 Xiaotong Guo , Jinhua Zhao

Truck platooning is a promising technology that enables trucks to travel in formations with small inter-vehicle distances for improved aerodynamics and fuel economy. The real-world transportation system includes a vast number of trucks…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-25 Ting Bai , Alexander Johansson , Karl Henrik Johansson , Jonas Mårtensson

In order to cope with the task allocation in national economic mobilization, a task allocation planning method based on Hierarchical Task Network (HTN) for national economic mobilization is proposed. An HTN planning algorithm is designed to…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Peng Zhao

The next generation networks offers significant potential to advance Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), particularly through the integration of Digital Twins (DTs). However, ensuring the uninterrupted operation of DTs through…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Mohammad Sajid Shahriar , Suresh Subramaniam , Motoharu Matsuura , Hiroshi Hasegawa , Shih-Chun Lin

Motivated by the rapid development of autonomous vehicle technology, this work focuses on the challenges of introducing them in ride-hailing platforms with conventional strategic human drivers. We consider a ride-hailing platform that…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-28 Shuqin Gao , Xinyuan Wu , Antonis Dimakis , Costas Courcoubetis

One of the most well-known problems in transportation and logistics is the Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem (CVRP). It involves optimizing a set of truck routes to service a set of customers, subject to limits on truck capacity, to…

As the automotive industry is developing autonomous driving systems and vehicular networks, attention to truck platooning has increased as a way to reduce costs (fuel consumption) and improve efficiency in the highway. Recent research in…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-15 Thiago S. Gomides , Evangelos Kranakis , Ioannis Lambadaris , Yannis Viniotis

We study a problem of fundamental importance to ICNs, namely, minimizing routing costs by jointly optimizing caching and routing decisions over an arbitrary network topology. We consider both source routing and hop-by-hop routing settings.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-08-22 Stratis Ioannidis , Edmund Yeh

New mobility concepts are at the forefront of research and innovation in smart cities. The introduction of connected and autonomous vehicles enables new possibilities in vehicle routing. Specifically, knowing the origin and destination of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-13 Brionna Davis , Grace Jennings , Taylor Pothast , Ilias Gerostathopoulos , Evangelos Pournaras , Raphael E. Stern