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Crowd-sourced traffic data offer great promise in environmental modeling. However, archives of such traffic data are typically not made available for research; instead, the data must be acquired in real time. The objective of this paper is…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-05-27 Markus Hilpert , Jenni A. Shearston , Jemaleddin Cole , Steven N. Chillrud , Micaela E. Martinez

This study presents a novel approach to the vehicle routing problem by focusing on greenhouse gas emissions and fuel consumption aiming to mitigate adverse environmental effects of transportation. A time-dependent model with time windows is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-09-19 Iman Kazemian , Samin Aref

For municipal solid waste (MSW) collection purposes, optimal routes for collection need to be determined for trucks to improve the impact on both the environment and the collection cost. This improvement leads to benefits such as decreasing…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-09-07 Amr Shafik , Moustafa Elkhedr , Dalia Said , Ahmed Hassan

Signalized intersections, arguably the most complicated type of traffic scenario, are essential to urban mobility systems. With recent advancements in intelligent transportation technologies, signalized intersections have great prospects…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-05-24 Ao Qu , Anirudh Valiveru , Catherine Tang , Vindula Jayawardana , Baptiste Freydt , Cathy Wu

The abundance of materials and the development of the economy have led to the flourishing of the logistics industry, but have also caused certain pollution. The research on GVRP (Green vehicle routing problem) for planning vehicle routes…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-10-22 YY. Feng

Traffic flow forecasting aims to predict future traffic flows based on the historical traffic conditions and the road network. It is an important problem in intelligent transportation systems, with a plethora of methods been proposed.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Yusheng Zhao , Xiao Luo , Haomin Wen , Zhiping Xiao , Wei Ju , Ming Zhang

Air pollution is a pressing environmental risk to public health, particularly in cities where population density and pollution levels are high. Traditional methods for exposure analysis often rely on census data, but recent studies…

Many countries are suffering from severe air pollution. Understanding how different air pollutants accumulate and propagate is critical to making relevant public policies. In this paper, we use urban big data (air quality data and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-04-19 Julie Yixuan Zhu , Chao Zhang , Huichu Zhang , Shi Zhi , Victor O. K. Li , Jiawei Han , Yu Zheng

Understanding network flows such as commuter traffic in large transportation networks is an ongoing challenge due to the complex nature of the transportation infrastructure and of human mobility. Here we show a first-principles based method…

Physics and Society · Physics 2014-10-21 Yihui Ren , Mária Ercsey-Ravasz , Pu Wang , Marta C. González , Zoltán Toroczkai

This study addresses multilane vehicular traffic modelling, focusing on the transition between microscopic (individual vehicle-based) to macroscopic (aggregate flow-based) descriptions. While previous research on multilane traffic has…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-09-09 Matteo Piu , Giuseppe Visconti , Gabriella Puppo

We discuss a Monte Carlo Markov Chain (MCMC) procedure for the random sampling of some one-dimensional lattice paths with constraints, for various constraints. We show that an approach inspired by optimal transport allows us to bound…

Probability · Mathematics 2010-07-28 Lucas Gerin

In this paper we propose a multiscale traffic model, based on the family of Generic Second Order Models, which integrates multiple trajectory data into the velocity function. This combination of a second order macroscopic model with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-07-29 Caterina Balzotti , Maya Briani

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

This paper proposes a set of technological solutions to transform existing transport systems into more intelligent, interactive systems by utilizing optimization and control methods that can be implemented in the near future. This will…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-31 Yi Zhang

How to free a road from vehicle traffic as efficiently as possible and in a given time, in order to allow for example the passage of emergency vehicles? We are interested in this question which we reformulate as an optimal control problem.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-25 Mickael Bestard , Emmanuel Franck , Laurent Navoret , Yannick Privat

Traffic flow prediction, particularly in areas that experience highly dynamic flows such as motorways, is a major issue faced in traffic management. Due to increasingly large volumes of data sets being generated every minute, deep learning…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-07 Adriana-Simona Mihaita , Zac Papachatgis , Marian-Andrei Rizoiu

Efficient traffic management is crucial for maintaining urban mobility, especially in densely populated areas where congestion, accidents, and delays can lead to frustrating and expensive commutes. However, existing prediction methods face…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Xuhong Wang , Ding Wang , Liang Chen , Yilun Lin

This paper introduces a comprehensive strategy that integrates traffic perimeter control with traffic signal control to alleviate congestion in an urban traffic network (UTN). The strategy is formulated as a lexicographic multi-objective…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-07 Viet Hoang Pham , Hyo-Sung Ahn

The impact of distributed dynamic routing with different market penetration rates (MPRs) of connected autonomous vehicles (CAVs) and congestion levels has been investigated on urban streets. Downtown Toronto network is studied in an…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-09-24 Lama Alfaseeh , Shadi Djavadian , Bilal Farooq

Accurate, scalable traffic monitoring is critical for real-time and long-term transportation management, particularly during disruptions such as natural disasters, large construction projects, or major policy changes like New York City's…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Fan Zuo , Donglin Zhou , Jingqin Gao , Kaan Ozbay