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Network traffic prediction techniques have attracted much attention since they are valuable for network congestion control and user experience improvement. While existing prediction techniques can achieve favorable performance when there is…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Hui Ma , Kai Yang

This paper demonstrates real-time short-term traffic flow prediction through distributed fiber-optic sensing (DFOS) and data assimilation with a stochastic cell-automata-based traffic model. Traffic congestion on expressways is a severe…

We present a novel framework for modeling traffic congestion events over road networks. Using multi-modal data by combining count data from traffic sensors with police reports that report traffic incidents, we aim to capture two types of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-02 Shixiang Zhu , Ruyi Ding , Minghe Zhang , Pascal Van Hentenryck , Yao Xie

Mitigating traffic congestion on urban roads, with paramount importance in urban development and reduction of energy consumption and air pollution, depends on our ability to foresee road usage and traffic conditions pertaining to the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-04-27 Jingyuan Wang , Yu Mao , Jing Li , Chao Li , Zhang Xiong , Wen-Xu Wang

Due to urbanization and the increase of individual mobility, in most metropolitan areas around the world congestion and inefficient traffic management occur. Highly necessary intelligent traffic control systems, which are able to reduce…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-13 Simon F. G. Ehlers

Accurate traffic flow prediction remains a fundamental challenge in intelligent transportation systems, particularly in cross-domain, data-scarce scenarios where limited historical data hinders model training and generalisation. The complex…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Abdul Joseph Fofanah , Lian Wen , David Chen

Using the data from loop detector sensors for near-real-time detection of traffic incidents in highways is crucial to averting major traffic congestion. While recent supervised machine learning methods offer solutions to incident detection…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-04 Yixuan Sun , Tanwi Mallick , Prasanna Balaprakash , Jane Macfarlane

In recent years, studying and predicting alternative mobility (e.g., sharing services) patterns in urban environments has become increasingly important as accurate and timely information on current and future vehicle flows can successfully…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-19 Stefano Fiorini , Michele Ciavotta , Andrea Maurino

Recently, deep learning methods have made great progress in traffic prediction, but their performance depends on a large amount of historical data. In reality, we may face the data scarcity issue. In this case, deep learning models fail to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Xueyan Yin , Feifan Li , Yanming Shen , Heng Qi , Baocai Yin

With the era of big data, an explosive amount of information is now available. This enormous increase of Big Data in both academia and industry requires large-scale data processing systems. A large body of research is behind optimizing…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Atousa Zarindast , Anuj Sharma

The traffic video data has become a critical factor in confining the state of traffic congestion due to the recent advancements in computer vision. This work proposes a unique technique for traffic video classification using a color-coding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-19 Mirza Fuad Adnan , Nadim Ahmed , Imrez Ishraque , Md. Sifath Al Amin , Md. Sumit Hasan

Understanding the dynamics of traffic clusters is crucial for enhancing urban transportation systems, particularly in managing congestion and free-flow states. This study applies computational percolation theory to analyze the formation and…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-07-30 Yongsung Kwon , Minjin Lee , Mi Jin Lee , Seung-Woo Son

Being able to identify service slowdowns is crucial to many operational problems. We study how to use observational congestion data to learn service slowdown in a multi-server system that uses adaptive congestion control mechanisms. We show…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-03-18 Xu Kuang , Gal Mendelson

Traffic congestion remains a significant challenge in modern urban networks. Autonomous driving technologies have emerged as a potential solution. Among traffic control methods, reinforcement learning has shown superior performance over…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Songyang Liu , Muyang Fan , Weizi Li , Jing Du , Shuai Li

Rapid urbanization has intensified traffic congestion, environmental strain, and inefficiencies in transportation systems, creating an urgent need for intelligent and adaptive traffic management solutions. Conventional systems relying on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Shaharyar Alam Ansari , Mohammad Luqman , Aasim Zafar , Savir Ali

Over the years, network traffic analysis and generation have advanced significantly. From traditional statistical methods, the field has progressed to sophisticated deep learning techniques. This progress has improved the ability to detect…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Jian Qu , Xiaobo Ma , Jianfeng Li

Multi-task learning (MTL) aims to make full use of the knowledge contained in multi-task supervision signals to improve the overall performance. How to make the knowledge of multiple tasks shared appropriately is an open problem for MTL.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Xiaokai Chen , Xiaoguang Gu , Libo Fu

Meta-learning is an important approach to improve machine learning performance with a limited number of observations for target tasks. However, when observations are unbalancedly obtained, it is difficult to improve the performance even…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-10-13 Tomoharu Iwata

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

Traffic forecasting is a significant part of intelligent transportation systems. One of the critical challenges of traffic forecasting is to find spatio-temporal correlations. In recent years, graph convolutional networks and graph…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Tianchi Zhang