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Traffic congestion has become an inevitable challenge in large cities due to population increases and expansion of urban areas. Various approaches are introduced to mitigate traffic issues, encompassing from expanding the road…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-12-06 Ali Ghafelebashi , Meisam Razaviyayn , Maged Dessouky

We design a coordination mechanism for truck drivers that uses pricing-and-routing schemes that can help alleviate traffic congestion in a general transportation network. We consider the user heterogeneity in Value-Of-Time (VOT) by adopting…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-01 Aristotelis-Angelos Papadopoulos , Ioannis Kordonis , Maged M. Dessouky , Petros A. Ioannou

This study investigates the efficiency and effectiveness of an area-based tradable credit scheme (TCS) using the trip-based Macroscopic Fundamental Diagram model for the morning commute problem. In the proposed TCS, the regulator…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-06 Renming Liu , Siyu Chen , Yu Jiang , Ravi Seshadri , Moshe E. Ben-Akiva , Carlos Lima Azevedo

Under the Markov decision process (MDP) congestion game framework, we study the problem of enforcing population distribution constraints on a population of players with stochastic dynamics and coupled congestion costs. Existing research…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-16 Sarah H. Q. Li , Yue Yu , Nicolas Miguel , Dan Calderone , Lillian J. Ratliff , Behcet Acikmese

Due to the presence of buffers in the inner network nodes, each congestion event leads to buffer queueing and thus to an increasing end-to-end delay. In the case of delay sensitive applications, a large delay might not be acceptable and a…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-01-23 Stefano D'Aronco , Laura Toni , Sergio Mena , Xiaoqing Zhu , Pascal Frossard

The continued transition towards electric mobility will decrease energy tax revenues worldwide, which has substantial implications for government funds. At the same time, demand for transportation is ever increasing, which in turn increases…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Thi Ngoc Nguyen , Felix Muesgens

To date the majority of commuters use their privately owned vehicle that uses an internal combustion engine. This transportation model suffers from low vehicle utilization and causes environmental pollution. This paper studies the use of…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2021-01-11 Emmanouil Rigas , Konstantinos Tsompanidis

We consider a network pricing game on a parallel network with congestion effects in which link owners set tolls for travel so as to maximize profit. A central authority is able to regulate this competition by means of a (uniform) price cap.…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-02-14 Tobias Harks , Marc Schroder , Dries Vermeulen

Traffic congestion has large economic and social costs. The introduction of autonomous vehicles can potentially reduce this congestion, both by increasing network throughput and by enabling a social planner to incentivize users of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-10-30 Erdem Bıyık , Daniel Lazar , Ramtin Pedarsani , Dorsa Sadigh

With the proliferation of ride-hailing services, curb space in urban areas has become highly congested due to the massive passenger pick-ups and drop-offs. Particularly during peak hours, the massive ride-hailing vehicles waiting to drop…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-17 Yao Deng , Zhi-Chun Li , Sean Qian , Wei Ma

Congestion pricing has emerged as an effective tool for mitigating traffic congestion, yet implementing welfare or revenue-optimal dynamic tolls is often impractical. Most real-world congestion pricing deployments, including New York City's…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Devansh Jalota , Xuan Di , Adam N. Elmachtoub

Congestion pricing has become an effective instrument for traffic demand management on road networks. This paper proposes an optimal control approach for congestion pricing for day-to-day timescale that incorporates demand uncertainty and…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-07-23 Hemant Gehlot , Harsha Honnappa , Satish V. Ukkusuri

This paper reports on the first systematic study of congestion-aware routing algorithms for wireless mesh networks to achieve an improved end-end delay performance. In particular, we compare 802.11 compatible implementations of a set of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2012-03-23 A. A. Bhorkar , T. Javidi , A. C. Snoeren

City road infrastructure is a public good, and over-consumption by self-interested, rational individuals leads to traffic jams. Congestion pricing is effective in reducing demand to sustainable levels, but also controversial, as it…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Kevin Riehl , Anastasios Kouvelas , Michail Makridis

Solving the road congestion problem is one of the most pressing issues in moderncities since it causes time wasting, pollution, higher industrial costs and huge roadmaintenance costs. Advances in ITS technologies and the advent of…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-13 Valentina Morandi

The proliferation of cloud data center applications and network function virtualization (NFV) boosts dynamic and QoS dependent traffic into the data centers network. Currently, lots of network routing protocols are requirement agnostic,…

In high-density environments where numerous autonomous agents move simultaneously in a distributed manner, streamlining global flows to mitigate local congestion is crucial to maintain overall navigation efficiency. This paper introduces a…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Takuro Kato , Keisuke Okumura , Yoko Sasaki , Naoya Yokomachi

Route controlled autonomous vehicles could have a significant impact in reducing congestion in the future. Before applying multi-agent reinforcement learning algorithms to route control, we can model the system using a congestion game to…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2021-04-02 Charlotte Roman , Paolo Turrini

Road network junctions, such as merges and diverges, often act as bottlenecks that initiate and exacerbate congestion. More complex junction configurations lead to more complex driver behaviors, resulting in aggregate congestion patterns…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-04-18 Ruolin Li , Negar Mehr , Roberto Horowitz

Mobile data traffic has been steadily rising in the past years. This has generated a significant interest in the deployment of incentive mechanisms to reduce peak-time congestion. Typically, the design of these mechanisms requires…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Patrick Loiseau , Galina Schwartz , John Musacchio , Saurabh Amin , S. Shankar Sastry