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Cities increasingly rely on vehicle trajectory data to monitor traffic conditions; however, such data offer only a partial and spatially heterogeneous view of network dynamics and exhibit systematic biases across corridors and time periods.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-12 Antonina Kosikova , Mehmet Kerem Turkcan , Ahmed Darrat , Andrew Smyth

In this paper, we have proposed STC-GEF, a novel Spatio-Temporal Cross-platform Graph Embedding Fusion approach for the urban traffic flow prediction. We have designed a spatial embedding module based on graph convolutional networks (GCN)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Mahan Tabatabaie , James Maniscalco , Connor Lynch , Suining He

Accurate, scalable traffic monitoring is critical for real-time and long-term transportation management, particularly during disruptions such as natural disasters, large construction projects, or major policy changes like New York City's…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Fan Zuo , Donglin Zhou , Jingqin Gao , Kaan Ozbay

In an intelligent transportation system, the key problem of traffic forecasting is how to extract periodic temporal dependencies and complex spatial correlations. Current state-of-the-art methods for predicting traffic flow are based on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Zichuan Liu , Rui Zhang , Chen Wang , Zhu Xiao , Hongbo Jiang

In this paper, we investigate traffic signal control in a network of interconnected intersections, aiming to balance lane-level vehicle densities through optimal green-time allocation. We develop a two-lane traffic flow model that…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-09 Xinfeng Ru , Ting Bai , Weiguo Xia , Andreas A. Malikopoulos

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

Traffic breakdown, as one of the most puzzling traffic flow phenomena, is characterized by sharply decreasing speed, abruptly increasing density and in particular suddenly plummeting capacity. In order to clarify its root mechanisms and…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-04-04 Zuojun Wang , Junfang Tian , Rui Jiang , Xiaopeng Li , Shou Feng Ma

Transportation and distribution networks are a class of spatial networks that have been of interest in recent years. These networks are often characterized by the presence of complex structures such as central loops paired with peripheral…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-01-23 Sebastiano Bontorin , Giulia Cencetti , Riccardo Gallotti , Bruno Lepri , Manlio De Domenico

In this paper, a new practice-ready method for the real-time estimation of traffic conditions and travel times on highways is introduced. First, after a principal component analysis, observation days of a historical dataset are clustered.…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-11-13 Nicolas Chiabaut , Rémi Faitout

Traffic congestion propagation poses significant challenges to urban sustainability, disrupting spatial accessibility. The cascading effect of traffic congestion propagation can cause large-scale disruptions to networks. Existing studies…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Weihua Huan , Kaizhen Tan , Xintao Liu , Shoujun Jia , Shijun Lu , Jing Zhang , Wei Huang

Traffic forecasting has recently attracted increasing interest due to the popularity of online navigation services, ridesharing and smart city projects. Owing to the non-stationary nature of road traffic, forecasting accuracy is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-10 Rui Dai , Shenkun Xu , Qian Gu , Chenguang Ji , Kaikui Liu

Understanding network flows such as commuter traffic in large transportation networks is an ongoing challenge due to the complex nature of the transportation infrastructure and of human mobility. Here we show a first-principles based method…

Physics and Society · Physics 2014-10-21 Yihui Ren , Mária Ercsey-Ravasz , Pu Wang , Marta C. González , Zoltán Toroczkai

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

For percolating systems, we propose a universal exponent relation connecting the leading corrections to scaling of the cluster size distribution with the dynamic corrections to the asymptotic transport behaviour at criticality. Our…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-12-08 Axel Kammerer , Felix Höfling , Thomas Franosch

Predicting urban growth is important for practical reasons, and also for the challenge it presents to theoretical frameworks for cluster dynamics. Recently, the model of diffusion limited aggregation (DLA) has been applied to describe urban…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Hernan A. Makse , Shlomo Havlin , H. Eugene Stanley

This paper addresses the problem of traffic prediction in distributed backend systems and proposes a graph neural network based modeling approach to overcome the limitations of traditional models in capturing complex dependencies and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Zhimin Qiu , Feng Liu , Yuxiao Wang , Chenrui Hu , Ziyu Cheng , Di Wu

This letter propose a new model for characterizing traffic dynamics in scale-free networks. With a replotted road map of cities with roads mapped to vertices and intersections to edges, and introducing the road capacity L and its handling…

Physics and Society · Physics 2007-05-23 Mao-Bin Hu , Wen-Xu Wang , Rui Jiang , Qing-Song Wu , Bing-Hong Wang , Yong-Hong Wu

In modern urban centers, effective transportation management poses a significant challenge, with traffic jams and inconsistent travel durations greatly affecting commuters and logistics operations. This study introduces a novel method for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Shambhavi Mishra , T. Satyanarayana Murthy

The ability to model and predict ego-vehicle's surrounding traffic is crucial for autonomous pilots and intelligent driver-assistance systems. Acceleration prediction is important as one of the major components of traffic prediction. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-11 Jianyu Su , Peter A. Beling , Rui Guo , Kyungtae Han

Traffic forecasting approaches are critical to developing adaptive strategies for mobility. Traffic patterns have complex spatial and temporal dependencies that make accurate forecasting on large highway networks a challenging task.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-23 Tanwi Mallick , Prasanna Balaprakash , Eric Rask , Jane Macfarlane