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We present in this paper a new algorithm for urban traffic light control with mixed traffic (communicating and non communicating vehicles) and mixed infrastructure (equipped and unequipped junctions). We call equipped junction here a…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-08-22 Cyril Nguyen Van Phu , Nadir Farhi , Habib Haj-Salem , Jean-Patrick Lebacque

Ramp metering, a traditional traffic control strategy for conventional vehicles, has been widely deployed around the world since the 1960s. On the other hand, the last decade has witnessed significant advances in connected and automated…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-05 Zhouqiao Zhao , Ziran Wang , Guoyuan Wu , Fei Ye , Matthew J. Barth

Accurately modeling traffic speeds is a fundamental part of efficient intelligent transportation systems. Nowadays, with the widespread deployment of GPS-enabled devices, it has become possible to crowdsource the collection of speed…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-12-21 Filipe Rodrigues , Francisco C. Pereira

Smart cities rely on dynamic and real-time data to enable smart urban applications such as intelligent transport and epidemics detection. However, the streaming of big data from IoT devices, especially from mobile platforms like pedestrians…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-07-12 Joshua Joy , Ciaran McGoldrick , Mario Gerla

Autonomous mobile robots offer promising solutions for labor shortages and increased operational efficiency. However, navigating safely and effectively in dynamic environments, particularly crowded areas, remains challenging. This paper…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Sena Saito , Kenta Tabata , Renato Miyagusuku , Koichi Ozaki

This work presents a distributed method for multi-vehicle coordination based on nonlinear model predictive control (NMPC) and dual decomposition. Our approach allows the vehicles to coordinate in tight spaces (e.g., busy highway lanes or…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Roya Firoozi , Laura Ferranti , Xiaojing Zhang , Sebastian Nejadnik , Francesco Borrelli

This study proposes a coordinated ramp metering control framework in large networks based on scalable nonlinear traffic dynamics model discovery. Existing coordinated ramp metering control methods often require accurate traffic dynamics…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-11 Zihang Wei , Yang Zhou , Yunlong Zhang , Mihir Kulkarni

Most autonomous-vehicles (AVs) driving strategies are designed and analyzed at the vehicle level, yet their aggregate impact on macroscopic traffic flow is still not understood, particularly the flow heterogeneity that emerges when AVs…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-14 Chenguang Zhao , Huan Yu

In this letter, we consider a transportation network with a 100\% penetration rate of connected and automated vehicles (CAVs) and present an optimal routing approach that takes into account the efficiency achieved in the network by…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-14 Heeseung Bang , Behdad Chalaki , Andreas A. Malikopoulos

The rising presence of autonomous vehicles (AVs) on public roads necessitates the development of advanced control strategies that account for the unpredictable nature of human-driven vehicles (HVs). This study introduces a learning-based…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Jie Wang , Yash Vardhan Pant , Zhihao Jiang

The advent of intelligent vehicles that can communicate with infrastructure as well as automate the movement provides a range of new options to address key urban traffic issues such as congestion and pollution, without the need for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-10-12 Shadi Djavadian , Ran Tu , Bilal Farooq , Marianne Hatzopoulou

Guaranteeing the quality of transit service is of great importance to promote the attractiveness of buses and alleviate urban traffic issues such as congestion and pollution. Emerging technologies of automated driving and V2X communication…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-02-11 Xiangdong Chen , Xi Lin , Meng Li , Fang He

The goal of traffic management is efficiently utilizing network resources via adapting of source sending rates and routes selection. Traditionally, this problem is formulated into a utilization maximization problem. The single-path routing…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Ying Liu , Hongying Liu , Ke Xu , Meng Shen , Yifeng Zhong

In this paper, we present an optimal control framework to address motion coordination of connected automated vehicles (CAVs) in the presence of human-driven vehicles (HDVs) in merging scenarios. Our framework combines an unconstrained…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-08 Viet-Anh Le , Hao M. Wang , Gabor Orosz , Andreas A. Malikopoulos

A significant portion of roads, particularly in densely populated developing countries, lacks explicitly defined right-of-way rules. These understructured roads pose substantial challenges for autonomous vehicle motion planning, where…

Vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communications have a great potential to improve traffic system performance. Most existing work of connected and autonomous vehicles (CAVs) focused on adaptation to downstream traffic conditions, neglecting the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-23 Jiawei Wang , Yang Zheng , Chaoyi Chen , Qing Xu , Keqiang Li

We present a fluid-dynamic model for the simulation of urban traffic networks with road sections of different lengths and capacities. The model allows one to efficiently simulate the transitions between free and congested traffic, taking…

Popular Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Dirk Helbing , Stefan Lämmer , Jean-Patrick Lebacque

Stop-and-go traffic waves are known for reducing the efficiency of transportation systems by increasing traffic oscillations and energy consumption. In this study, we develop an approach to synthesize a class of additive feedback…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-03 Shian Wang , Jose Acedo Aguilar , Miguel Velez-Reyes

In a given scenario, simultaneously and accurately predicting every possible interaction of traffic participants is an important capability for autonomous vehicles. The majority of current researches focused on the prediction of an single…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-31 Yeping Hu , Wei Zhan , Masayoshi Tomizuka

Optimal transport (OT) and Schr{\"o}dinger bridge (SB) problems have emerged as powerful frameworks for transferring probability distributions with minimal cost. However, existing approaches typically focus on endpoint matching while…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-09 Xu Duan , Dongmei Chen