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At an unmanaged intersection, it is important to understand how much traffic delay may be caused as a result of microscopic vehicle interactions. Conventional traffic simulations that explicitly track these interactions are time-consuming.…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2018-06-08 Changliu Liu , Mykel J. Kochenderfer

We study the emergence of congestion patterns in urban networks by modeling vehicular interaction by means of a simple traffic rule and by using a set of measures inspired by the standard Betweenness Centrality (BC). We consider a…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-07-25 Marco Cogoni , Giovanni Busonera , Francesco Versaci

This paper offers an integrative data-driven physics-inspired approach to model and control traffic congestion in a resilient and efficient manner. While existing physics-based approaches commonly assign density and flow traffic states by…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-03 Hossein Rastgoftar , Ella Atkins

Traffic congestion remains a significant challenge in modern urban networks. Autonomous driving technologies have emerged as a potential solution. Among traffic control methods, reinforcement learning has shown superior performance over…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Songyang Liu , Muyang Fan , Weizi Li , Jing Du , Shuai Li

Inefficiencies in traffic flow through an intersection lead to stopping vehicles, unnecessary congestion, and increased accident risk. In this paper, we propose a traffic signal controller platform demonstrating the ability to increase…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-03 Frederik Baymler Mathiesen , Garey Fleeman

Advances in vision-based sensors and computer vision algorithms have significantly improved the analysis and understanding of traffic scenarios. To facilitate the use of these improvements for road safety, this survey systematically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Yaoqi Huang , Julie Stephany Berrio , Mao Shan , Stewart Worrall

Despite the importance of urban traffic flows, there are only a few theoretical approaches to determine fundamental relationships between macroscopic traffic variables such as the traffic density, the utilization, the average velocity, and…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-11-13 Dirk Helbing

Urban congestion at signalized intersections leads to significant delays, economic losses, and increased emissions. Existing deep learning models often lack spatial generalizability, rely on complex architectures, and struggle with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Nooshin Yousefzadeh , Rahul Sengupta , Jeremy Dilmore , Sanjay Ranka

This work presents a new method to quantify connectivity in transportation networks. Inspired by the field of topological data analysis, we propose a novel approach to explore the robustness of road network connectivity in the presence of…

We present research on developing models that forecast traffic flow and congestion in the Greater Seattle area. The research has led to the deployment of a service named JamBayes, that is being actively used by over 2,500 users via…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2012-07-09 Eric J. Horvitz , Johnson Apacible , Raman Sarin , Lin Liao

Traffic congestion has significant economic, environmental, and social ramifications. Intersection traffic flow dynamics are influenced by numerous factors. While microscopic traffic simulators are valuable tools, they are computationally…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-03 Nooshin Yousefzadeh , Rahul Sengupta , Yashaswi Karnati , Anand Rangarajan , Sanjay Ranka

Predicting risk map of traffic accidents is vital for accident prevention and early planning of emergency response. Here, the challenge lies in the multimodal nature of urban big data. We propose a compact neural ensemble model to alleviate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-10 Wenshan Wang , Su Yang , Weishan Zhang

Traffic congestion has become one of the major problems in the urban cities according to the increasing number of vehicles in those cities, obsolete technologies used on the roads of those cities, inappropriate road design, and many other…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2020-09-01 Maythem K. Abbas , Mohd N. Karsiti , Madzlan Napiah , Brahim B. Samir , Marwan Al-Jemeli

Smart and decentralized control systems have recently been proposed to handle the growing traffic congestion in urban cities. Proposed smart traffic light solutions based on Wireless Sensor Network and Vehicular Ad-hoc NETwork are either…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2020-05-14 Willy Carlos Tchuitcheu , Christophe Bobda , Md Jubaer Hossain Pantho

Intersections are essential road infrastructures for traffic in modern metropolises. However, they can also be the bottleneck of traffic flows as a result of traffic incidents or the absence of traffic coordination mechanisms such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Dawei Wang , Weizi Li , Lei Zhu , Jia Pan

Accurate traffic speed prediction is an important and challenging topic for transportation planning. Previous studies on traffic speed prediction predominately used spatio-temporal and context features for prediction. However, they have not…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-04 Qinge Xie , Tiancheng Guo , Yang Chen , Yu Xiao , Xin Wang , Ben Y. Zhao

Balancing traffic flow by influencing drivers' route choices to alleviate congestion is becoming increasingly more appealing in urban traffic planning. Here, we introduce a discrete dynamical model comprising users who make their own…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-09-09 Bo Li , David Saad , Andrey Y. Lokhov

Nowadays, in developing countries including Iran, the number of vehicles is increasing due to growing population. This has recently led to waste time getting stuck in traffic, take more time for daily commute, and increase accidents. So it…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-12 Daniel. Firouzimagham , Mohammad. Sabouri , Fatemeh. Adhami

We propose a quantitative approach for calibrating and validating key features of traffic instabilities based on speed time series obtained from aggregated data of a series of neighboring stationary detectors. We apply the proposed criteria…

Physics and Society · Physics 2010-08-11 Martin Treiber , Arne Kesting

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