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Modeling heterogeneous and multi-lane traffic flow is essential for understanding and controlling complex transportation systems. In this work, we consider three vehicle populations: two classes of human-driven vehicles (cars and trucks)…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-17 Maria Teresa Chiri , Christopher Denaro , Xiaoqian Gong , Benedetto Piccoli

In this paper, we address a coordination problem for connected and autonomous vehicles (CAVs) in mixed traffic settings with human-driven vehicles (HDVs). The main objective is to have a safe and optimal crossing order for vehicles…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-23 Muhammad Faris , Mario Zanon , Paolo Falcone

Practical deployments of coordinated fleets of mobile robots in different environments have revealed the benefits of maintaining small distances between robots, especially as they move at higher speeds. However, this is counter-intuitive in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-01-20 Namya Bagree , Charles Noren , Damanpreet Singh , Matthew Travers , Bhaskar Vundurthy

Transport processes are universal in real-world complex networks, such as communication and transportation networks. As the increase of the traffic in these complex networks, problems like traffic congestion and transport delay are becoming…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Jiexin Wu , Cunlai Pu , Shuxin Ding , Guo Cao , Panos M. Pardalos

Autonomous driving at intersections is one of the most complicated and accident-prone traffic scenarios, especially with mixed traffic participants such as vehicles, bicycles and pedestrians. The driving policy should make safe decisions to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-27 Jianhua Jiang , Yangang Ren , Yang Guan , Shengbo Eben Li , Yuming Yin , Xiaoping Jin

Motion Prediction (MP) of multiple surroundings agents is a crucial task in arbitrarily complex environments, from simple robots to Autonomous Driving Stacks (ADS). Current techniques tackle this problem using end-to-end pipelines, where…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-11-02 Carlos Gómez-Huélamo , Marcos V. Conde , Rafael Barea , Manuel Ocaña , Luis M. Bergasa

This paper proposes vehicle motion planning methods with obstacle avoidance in tight spaces by incorporating polygonal approximations of both the vehicle and obstacles into a model predictive control (MPC) framework. Representing these…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Haruki Kojima , Kohei Honda , Hiroyuki Okuda , Tatsuya Suzuki

Stop-and-go traffic patterns sometimes manifest on roadways without any discernible congestion triggers. Such a phenomenon has been observed on homogeneous ring roads without lane changes. With the development of vehicle technology and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-23 Irene Martínez

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

This study integrates Transit Signal Priority (TSP) into multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) based traffic signal control. The first part of the study develops adaptive signal control based on MARL for a pair of coordinated…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Dickness Kakitahi Kwesiga , Suyash Chandra Vishnoi , Angshuman Guin , Michael Hunter

This paper presents a novel AI-based smart traffic management system de-signed to optimize traffic flow and reduce congestion in urban environments. By analysing live footage from existing CCTV cameras, this approach eliminates the need for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-06 Ahmed Mahmoud Elbasha , Mohammad M. Abdellatif

Multi-hop uncrewed aerial vehicle (UAV) networks are promising to extend the terrestrial network coverage. Existing multi-hop UAV networks employ a single routing path by selecting the next-hop forwarding node in a hop-by-hop manner, which…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Zhenyu Zhao , Tiankui Zhang , Xiaoxia Xu , Junjie Li , Yuanwei Liu , Wenjuan Xing

Optimal transport (OT) is a widely used technique for distribution alignment, with applications throughout the machine learning, graphics, and vision communities. Without any additional structural assumptions on trans-port, however, OT can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Chi-Heng Lin , Mehdi Azabou , Eva L. Dyer

Due to the rapid growth of data transmissions in internet of vehicles (IoV), finding schemes that can effectively alleviate access congestion has become an important issue. Recently, many traffic control schemes have been studied.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-04-13 Haijun Zhang , Minghui Jiang , Xiangnan Liu , Keping Long , Victor C. M. Leung

Tradable mobility credit (TMC) schemes are an approach to travel demand management that have received significant attention in recent years. This paper proposes and analyzes alternative market models for a TMC system -- focusing on market…

Multi-robot motion planning (MRMP) is the problem of finding collision-free paths for a set of robots in a continuous state space. The difficulty of MRMP increases with the number of robots and is exacerbated in environments with narrow…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-11-17 Courtney McBeth , James Motes , Diane Uwacu , Marco Morales , Nancy M. Amato

This paper offers a finite-state abstraction of traffic coordination and congestion in a network of interconnected roads (NOIR). By applying mass conservation, we model traffic coordination as a Markov process. Model Predictive Control…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-21 Hossein Rastgoftar , Jean-Baptiste Jeannin

We address an advanced challenge of predicting pedestrian occupancy as an extension of multi-view pedestrian detection in urban traffic. To support this, we have created a new synthetic dataset called MVP-Occ, designed for dense pedestrian…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Sithu Aung , Min-Cheol Sagong , Junghyun Cho

Predictive planning is a key capability for robots to efficiently and safely navigate populated environments. Particularly in densely crowded scenes, with uncertain human motion predictions, predictive path planning, and control can become…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-22 Till Hielscher , Lukas Heuer , Frederik Wulle , Luigi Palmieri

Mitigating traffic oscillations in mixed flows of connected automated vehicles (CAVs) and human-driven vehicles (HDVs) is critical for enhancing traffic stability. A key challenge lies in modeling the nonlinear, heterogeneous behaviors of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-06 Hao Lyu , Yanyong Guo , Pan Liu , Nan Zheng , Ting Wang , Quansheng Yue