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We assume that urban travelers may prefer flexible modes of transportation over conventional public transport (PT) for making non-routine trips, and estimate the potential for such modal switch based on a database of 63 million smartcard…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-12-12 Nir Fulman , Maria Marinov , Itzhak Benenson

Recently, the traffic congestion in modern cities has become a growing worry for the residents. As presented in Baidu traffic report, the commuting stress index has reached surprising 1.973 in Beijing during rush hours, which results in…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Xianfeng Liang , Likang Wu , Joya Chen , Yang Liu , Runlong Yu , Min Hou , Han Wu , Yuyang Ye , Qi Liu , Enhong Chen

Understanding the dynamics of traffic clusters is crucial for enhancing urban transportation systems, particularly in managing congestion and free-flow states. This study applies computational percolation theory to analyze the formation and…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-07-30 Yongsung Kwon , Minjin Lee , Mi Jin Lee , Seung-Woo Son

We propose here a methodology to help to understand the shortcomings of public transportation in a city via the mining of complex networks representing the supply and demand of public transport. We show how to build these networks based…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-04-04 Carlos Caminha , Vasco Furtado , Vládia Pinheiro , Caio Ponte

This study addresses the urban transit pattern design problem, optimizing stop sequences, headways, and fleet sizes across multiple routes and periods simultaneously to minimize user costs (composed of riding, waiting, and transfer times)…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-10 Max T. M. Ng , Draco Tong , Hani S. Mahmassani , Omer Verbas , Taner Cokyasar

Advances in public transit modeling and smart card technologies can reveal detailed contact patterns of passengers. A natural way to represent such contact patterns is in the form of networks. In this paper we utilize known contact patterns…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2019-08-22 Laszlo Hajdu , Andras Bota , Miklos Kresz , Alireza Khani , Lauren M. Gardner

The growth of transportation networks and their increasing interconnections, although positive, has the downside effect of an increasing complexity which make them difficult to use, to assess, and limits their efficiency. On average in the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2014-11-06 Riccardo Gallotti , Marc Barthelemy

Assigning passenger trips to specific network paths using automatic fare collection (AFC) data is a fundamental application in urban transit analysis. The task is a difficult inverse problem: the only available information consists of each…

Applications · Statistics 2025-07-31 Xiaoxu Chen , Alexandra M. Schmidt , Zhenliang Ma , Lijun Sun

Air traffic controllers benefit from referencing historical dates with similar complex air traffic conditions to identify potential management measures and their effects, which is critical for understanding air transportation system laws…

Applications · Statistics 2025-09-12 Wei Sun , Zi-Feng Yi , Zhi-Qiang Feng , Ji Ma , Ruo-shi Yang

In this study, we propose a three-stage framework for the planning and scheduling of high-capacity mobility-on-demand services (e.g., micro transit and flexible transit) at urban activity hubs. The proposed framework consists of (1) the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-08-26 Xinwu Qian , Jiawei Xue , Satish V. Ukkusuri

In this paper, we reveal the relationship between entropy rate and the congestion in complex network and solve it analytically for special cases. Finding maximizing entropy rate will lead to an improvement of traffic efficiency, we propose…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-09-15 Yuhang Fan , Hanyuan Liu , Shibo He

Implementing federated learning (FL) algorithms in wireless networks has garnered a wide range of attention. However, few works have considered the impact of user mobility on the learning performance. To fill this research gap, firstly, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-23 Chenyuan Feng , Howard H. Yang , Deshun Hu , Zhiwei Zhao , Tony Q. S. Quek , Geyong Min

This paper seeks to understand extreme public transit riders in Beijing using both traditional household survey and emerging new data sources such as Smart Card Data (SCD). We focus on four types of extreme transit behaviors: public transit…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-02-10 Ying Long , Xingjian Liu , Jiangping Zhou , Yanwei Chai

Many modern and growing cities are facing declines in public transport usage, with few efficient methods to explain why. In this article, we show that urban mobility patterns and transport mode choices can be derived from cellphone call…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-09-02 Thomas Holleczek , Liang Yu , Joseph K. Lee , Oliver Senn , Kristian Kloeckl , Carlo Ratti , Patrick Jaillet

In this letter, we propose a new routing strategy to improve the transportation efficiency on complex networks. Instead of using the routing strategy for shortest path, we give a generalized routing algorithm to find the so-called {\it…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 Gang Yan , Tao Zhou , Bo Hu , Zhong-Qian Fu , Bing-Hong Wang

Major cities worldwide experience problems with the performance of their road transportation networks, and the continuous increase in traffic demand presents a substantial challenge to the optimal operation of urban road networks and the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-18 Linghang Sun , Yifan Zhang , Cristian Axenie , Margherita Grossi , Anastasios Kouvelas , Michail A. Makridis

Public transit systems are a critical component of major metropolitan areas. However, in the face of increasing demand, most of these systems are operating close to capacity. Under normal operating conditions, station crowding and boarding…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2016-10-03 Peyman Noursalehi , Haris N. Koutsopoulos

The potential of integrating public transit with ridesharing includes shorter travel time for commuters and higher occupancy rate of personal vehicles and public transit ridership. In this paper, we describe a centralized transit system…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Qian-Ping Gu , Jiajian Leo Liang

Smart cities have revolutionized urban living by incorporating sophisticated technologies to optimize various aspects of urban infrastructure, such as transportation systems. Effective traffic management is a crucial component of smart…

Under the global background of developing urban-rural travel patterns, traditional urban-rural public transport systems are generally faced with the serious challenges of passenger loss and operating deficit, leading to a reduction in the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-25 Jiabin Wu , Zijian Huang , Linhong Wang , Yiming Bie , Yuting Ji , Jun Gong