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Understanding travel demand and behavior, particularly route and mode choices, is critical for effective transportation planning and policy design in multi-modal systems with emerging mobility options. Multi-modal system-level data, such as…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-04 Xiaoyu Ma , Sean Qian

Traffic forecasting is a classical task for traffic management and it plays an important role in intelligent transportation systems. However, since traffic data are mostly collected by traffic sensors or probe vehicles, sensor failures and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-12 Zhiyong Cui , Longfei Lin , Ziyuan Pu , Yinhai Wang

Recently, spatial-temporal forecasting technology has been rapidly developed due to the increasing demand for traffic management and travel planning. However, existing traffic forecasting models still face the following limitations. On one…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Mu Liu , MingChen Sun YingJi Li , Ying Wang

Travel time estimation is a crucial task for not only personal travel scheduling but also city planning. Previous methods focus on modeling toward road segments or sub-paths, then summing up for a final prediction, which have been recently…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-07-09 Wuwei Lan , Yanyan Xu , Bin Zhao

Due to the complexity of the traffic flow dynamics in urban road networks, most quantitative descriptions of city traffic so far are based on computer simulations. This contribution pursues a macroscopic (fluid-dynamic) simulation approach,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-03-18 Amin Mazloumian , Nikolas Geroliminis , Dirk Helbing

The increasing urbanization process we have been witnessing in the last decades is accompanied by a significant increase in traffic congestion in cities around the world. The effect of the congestion is represented in the enormous time…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-11-01 Nimrod Serok , Shlomo Havlin , Efrat Blumenfeld Lieberthal

We present a methodology of cooperative driving in vehicular traffic, in which for short-time traffic prediction rather than one of the statistical approaches of artificial intelligence (AI), we follow a qualitative different microscopic…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-04-17 Boris S. Kerner , Sergey L. Klenov , Vincent Wiering , Michael Schreckenberg

Traffic flow prediction is one of the most fundamental tasks of intelligent transportation systems. The complex and dynamic spatial-temporal dependencies make the traffic flow prediction quite challenging. Although existing spatial-temporal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-13 Haiyang Liu , Chunjiang Zhu , Detian Zhang , Qing Li

Connected and Automated Vehicles (CAVs) offer significant potential for improving energy efficiency and lowering vehicle emissions through eco-driving technologies. Control algorithms in CAVs leverage look-ahead route information and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-13 Mehmet Fatih Ozkan , Dennis Kibalama , Jacob Paugh , Marcello Canova , Stephanie Stockar

This study addresses the challenge of estimating traffic states for road links. We propose an innovative approach that leverages partial trajectory data captured by camera-equipped probe vehicles traveling in the opposite lane. The…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-02 Tanay Rastogi , Michele D. Simoni , Anders Karlström

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

With the acceleration of urbanization, intelligent transportation systems have an increasing demand for accurate traffic flow prediction. This paper proposes a novel Graph Enhanced Spatio-temporal Hierarchical Inference Network (GEnSHIN) to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Zhiyan Zhou , Junjie Liao , Manho Zhang , Yingyi Liao , Ziai Wang

Predicting travel times of vehicles in urban settings is a useful and tangible quantity of interest in the context of intelligent transportation systems. We address the problem of travel time prediction in arterial roads using data sampled…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-11-17 Avinash Achar , Venkatesh Sarangan , R Rohith , Anand Sivasubramaniam

Traffic flow is a very prominent example of a driven non-equilibrium system. A characteristic phenomenon of traffic dynamics is the spontaneous and abrupt drop of the average velocity on a stretch of road leading to congestion. Such a…

Physics and Society · Physics 2012-10-29 Florian Knorr , Michael Schreckenberg

Achieving accurate traffic prediction is a fundamental but crucial task in the development of current intelligent transportation systems.Most of the mainstream methods that have made breakthroughs in traffic prediction rely on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Guangyin Jin , Sicong Lai , Xiaoshuai Hao , Mingtao Zhang , Jinlei Zhang

The emergence of congestion is a critical phenomenon in transport systems. Transport is organized along pathways abstracted by links, which connect different nodes as regions to form the network. The modeling of traffic has so far mainly…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-03-23 Zhidong He

Traffic flow forecasting is a crucial task in urban computing. The challenge arises as traffic flows often exhibit intrinsic and latent spatio-temporal correlations that cannot be identified by extracting the spatial and temporal patterns…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-02 Song Yang , Jiamou Liu , Kaiqi Zhao

Traffic state estimation (TSE) falls methodologically into three categories: model-driven, data-driven, and model-data dual-driven. Model-driven TSE relies on macroscopic traffic flow models originated from hydrodynamics. Data-driven TSE…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Hongxin Yu , Yibing Wang , Fengyue Jin , Meng Zhang , Anni Chen

Traffic congestion continues to escalate with urbanization and socioeconomic development, necessitating advanced modeling to understand and mitigate its impacts. In large-scale networks, traffic congestion can be studied using cascade…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-02-20 Agnieszka Janicka , Fiona Sloothaak , Maria Vlasiou , Bert Zwart

Foundation models have shown great promise in various fields of study. A potential application of such models is in computer network traffic analysis, where these models can grasp the complexities of network traffic dynamics and adapt to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-13 Louis Van Langendonck , Ismael Castell-Uroz , Pere Barlet-Ros