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Strategic Traffic Management Initiatives (TMIs) such as Ground Delay Programs (GDPs) play a crucial role in mitigating operational costs associated with demand-capacity imbalances. However, GDPs can only be planned (e.g., duration, delay…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-26 Haochen Wu , Xinting Zhu , Shuchang Li , Ying Zhou , Lishuai Li , Max Z. Li

Recent advances in Machine Learning (ML) have shown a great potential to build data-driven solutions for a plethora of network-related problems. In this context, building fast and accurate network models is essential to achieve functional…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-03-17 Miquel Ferriol-Galmés , José Suárez-Varela , Pere Barlet-Ros , Albert Cabellos-Aparicio

Pick-up and Delivery Route Prediction (PDRP), which aims to estimate the future service route of a worker given his current task pool, has received rising attention in recent years. Deep neural networks based on supervised learning have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Xiaowei Mao , Haomin Wen , Hengrui Zhang , Huaiyu Wan , Lixia Wu , Jianbin Zheng , Haoyuan Hu , Youfang Lin

We study the problem of computing all Pareto-optimal journeys in a public transit network regarding the two criteria of arrival time and number of transfers taken. We take a novel approach, focusing on trips and transfers between them,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-07-06 Sascha Witt

With the rise of big data technologies, many smart transportation applications have been rapidly developed in recent years including bus arrival time predictions. This type of applications help passengers to plan trips more efficiently…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-24 Dairui Liu , Jingxiang Sun , Shen Wang

The goal of this paper is to investigate a decision support system for vehicle routing, where the routing engine learns from the subjective decisions that human planners have made in the past, rather than optimizing a distance-based…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-09-18 Rocsildes Canoy , Tias Guns

Providing transport users and operators with accurate forecasts on travel times is challenging due to a highly stochastic traffic environment. Public transport users are particularly sensitive to unexpected waiting times, which negatively…

Applications · Statistics 2022-02-25 Hector Rodriguez-Deniz , Mattias Villani

Previous methods that predict system-wide travel time, predominantly grounded in graph neural networks, remain limited to typical and recurring demand patterns. While they successfully predict future congestion following daily commute, they…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Łukasz Gorczyca , Kacper Drozd , Michał Bujak , Rafał Kucharski

Dynamic low altitude networks offer significant potential for efficient and reliable data transport via unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) relays which usually operate with predetermined trajectories. However, it is challenging to optimize the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-23 Bowen Li , Junting Chen

Task offloading is of paramount importance to efficiently orchestrate vehicular wireless networks, necessitating the availability of information regarding the current network status and computational resources. However, due to the mobility…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Ting Zhang , Bo Yang , Zhiwen Yu , Xuelin Cao , George C. Alexandropoulos , Yan Zhang , Chau Yuen

We investigate algorithms to find short paths in spatial networks with stochastic edge weights. Our formulation of the problem of finding short paths differs from traditional formulations because we specifically do not make two of the usual…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-09-06 Till Hoffmann , Renaud Lambiotte , Mason A. Porter

As ride-hailing services become increasingly popular, being able to accurately predict demand for such services can help operators efficiently allocate drivers to customers, and reduce idle time, improve congestion, and enhance the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-19 Long Chen , Piyushimita , Thakuriah , Konstantinos Ampountolas

Traffic forecasting is a particularly challenging application of spatiotemporal forecasting, due to the time-varying traffic patterns and the complicated spatial dependencies on road networks. To address this challenge, we learn the traffic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-06 Zhiyong Cui , Kristian Henrickson , Ruimin Ke , Ziyuan Pu , Yinhai Wang

Path planning is an important problem with the the applications in many aspects, such as video games, robotics etc. This paper proposes a novel method to address the problem of Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) based path planning for a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-11 Hao Liu , Yi Shen , Shuangjiang Yu , Zijun Gao , Tong Wu

Conventional Public Transport (PT) cannot support the mobility needs in weak demand areas. Such areas could be better served by integrating, within PT, Demand-Responsive Transport (DRT), in which bus routes dynamically adapt to user demand.…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-01-06 Pierfrancesco Leonardi , Vincenza Torrisi , Andrea Araldo , Matteo Ignaccolo

Train delays can propagate rapidly throughout the Urban Rail Transit (URT) network under networked operation conditions, posing significant challenges to operational departments. Accurately predicting passenger travel choices under train…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Chen Chen , Yuxin He , Hao Wang , Jingjing Chen , Qin Luo

Accessibility measures how well a location is connected to surrounding opportunities. We focus on accessibility provided by Public Transit (PT). There is an evident inequality in the distribution of accessibility between city centers or…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-09 Duo Wang , Andrea Araldo , Mounim A. El Yacoubi

Public transport administrators rely on efficient algorithms for various problems that arise in public transport networks. In particular, our study focused on designing linear-time algorithms for two fundamental path problems: the earliest…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Mithinti Srikanth , G. Ramakrishna

The short term passenger flow prediction of the urban rail transit system is of great significance for traffic operation and management. The emerging deep learning-based models provide effective methods to improve prediction accuracy.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-17 Shuxin Zhang , Jinlei Zhang , Lixing Yang , Jiateng Yin , Ziyou Gao

Routing configurations of a network should constantly adapt to traffic variations to achieve good network performance. Adaptive routing faces two main challenges: 1) how to accurately measure/estimate time-varying traffic matrices? 2) how…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Zhun Yin , Xiaotian Li , Lifan Mei , Yong Liu , Zhong-Ping Jiang