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Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-27 Jingxiao Liu , Siyuan Yuan , Yiwen Dong , Biondo Biondi , Hae Young Noh

In transport modeling and prediction, trip purposes play an important role since mobility choices (e.g. modes, routes, departure times) are made in order to carry out specific activities. Activity based models, which have been gaining…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2015-02-16 Youngsung Kim , Francisco C. Pereira , Fang Zhao , Ajinkya Ghorpade , P. Christopher Zegras , Moshe Ben-Akiva

Microtransit systems represent an enhancement to solve the first- and last-mile problem, integrating traditional rail and bus networks with on-demand shuttles into a flexible, integrated system. This type of demand responsive transport…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-30 Jason Lu , Tejas Santanam , Hongzhao Guan , Connor Riley , Meen-Sung Kim , Anthony Trasatti , Neda Masoud , Pascal Van Hentenryck

Challenged by urbanization and increasing travel needs, existing transportation systems need new mobility paradigms. In this article, we present the emerging concept of autonomous mobility-on-demand, whereby centrally orchestrated fleets of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-22 Gioele Zardini , Nicolas Lanzetti , Marco Pavone , Emilio Frazzoli

Motion planning at urban intersections that accounts for the situation context, handles occlusions, and deals with measurement and prediction uncertainty is a major challenge on the way to urban automated driving. In this work, we address…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Johannes Müller , Jan Strohbeck , Martin Herrmann , Michael Buchholz

Mobility-on-demand (MoD) systems have recently emerged as a promising paradigm of one-way vehicle sharing for sustainable personal urban mobility in densely populated cities. In this paper, we enhance the capability of a MoD system by…

Robotics · Computer Science 2013-06-07 Jie Chen , Kian Hsiang Low , Colin Keng-Yan Tan

Spatiotemporal (ST) data collected by sensors can be represented as multi-variate time series, which is a sequence of data points listed in an order of time. Despite the vast amount of useful information, the ST data usually suffer from the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-20 Li Jiang , Ting Zhang , Qiruyi Zuo , Chenyu Tian , George P. Chan , Wai Kin , Chan

Shuttle buses have been a popular means to move commuters sharing similar origins and destinations during periods of high travel demand. However, planning and deploying reasonable, customized service bus systems becomes challenging when the…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-09-08 Qiangqiang Liu , Quan Li , Chunfeng Tang , Huanbin Lin , Xiaojuan Ma , Tianjian Chen

Obtaining data on active travel activities such as walking, jogging, and cycling is important for refining sustainable transportation systems (STS). Effectively monitoring these activities not only requires sensing solutions to have a joint…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-13 Ruikang Zhong , Chia-Yen Chiang , Mona Jaber , Rupert De Wilde , Peter Hayward

The widespread adoption of battery electric vehicles (BEVs) holds promise for mitigating emission-related health impacts, particularly for low-income communities disproportionately affected by exposure to traffic-related air pollution.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-02 Ismaeel Babur , Jane Macfarlane

Autonomous agents rely on sensor data to construct representations of their environments, essential for predicting future events and planning their actions. However, sensor measurements suffer from limited range, occlusions, and sensor…

Detailed understanding of multi-modal mobility patterns within urban areas is crucial for public infrastructure planning, transportation management, and designing public transport (PT) services centred on users' needs. Yet, even with the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-09-28 Zhiren Huang , Alonso Espinosa Mireles de Villafranca , Charalampos Sipetas

School bus planning is usually divided into routing and scheduling due to the complexity of solving them concurrently. However, the separation between these two steps may lead to worse solutions with higher overall costs than that from…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-11-16 Ali Shafahi , Zhongxiang Wang , Ali Haghani

We present a scalable solution to link entities across mobility datasets using their spatio-temporal information. This is a fundamental problem in many applications such as linking user identities for security, understanding privacy…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-04-14 Fuat Basık , Hakan Ferhatosmanoğlu , Buğra Gedik

Base station densification is one of the key approaches for delivering high capacity in radio access networks. However, current static deployments are often impractical and financially unsustainable, as they increase both capital and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Laura Finarelli , Falko Dressler , Marco Marsan Ajmone , Gianluca Rizzo

This study models and examines commuter's preferences for short-distance transportation modes, namely: walking, taking a bus or riding a metro. It is used a unique dataset from a large-scale field experiment in Singapore that provides rich…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-02-22 Francisco Benita , Garvit Bansal , Georgios Piliouras , Bige Tunçer

This paper presents an interactive bathtub model for describing the traffic dynamics of ride-sourcing vehicles including non-shared taxis and ride-pooling cars. A city with a network of undifferentiated streets and solely served by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-07-20 Wenbo Fan

In this paper, we propose a machine learning-based approach to address the lack of ability for designers to optimize urban land use planning from the perspective of vehicle travel demand. Research shows that our computational model can help…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Zixun Huang , Hao Zheng

Air pollutant exposure exhibits significant spatial and temporal variability, with localized hotspots, particularly in traffic microenvironments, posing health risks to commuters. Although widely used for air quality assessment, fixed-site…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-04 Hui Zhong , Hongliang Lu , Ting Gan , Yonghong Liu , Xinhu Zheng

This paper proposes a self-calibrated transit service monitoring framework that aims to obtain the performance of a transit system using automated collected data. We first introduce an event-based transit simulation model, which allows the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-09 Hongyu Guo