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Manual traffic surveillance can be a daunting task as Traffic Management Centers operate a myriad of cameras installed over a network. Injecting some level of automation could help lighten the workload of human operators performing manual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Vishal Mandal , Abdul Rashid Mussah , Peng Jin , Yaw Adu-Gyamfi

Accurate forecasting of traffic conditions is critical for improving safety, stability, and efficiency of a city transportation system. In reality, it is challenging to produce accurate traffic forecasts due to the complex and dynamic…

Applications · Statistics 2021-08-06 Tiange Wang , Zijun Zhang , Kwok-Leung Tsui

Effective traffic prediction is a cornerstone of intelligent transportation systems, enabling precise forecasts of traffic flow, speed, and congestion. While traditional spatio-temporal graph neural networks (ST-GNNs) have achieved notable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-20 Xiaoyang Cao , Dingyi Zhuang , Jinhua Zhao , Shenhao Wang

In this paper we propose a Godunov-based discretization of a hyperbolic system of conservation laws with discontinuous flux, modeling vehicular flow on a network. Each equation describes the density evolution of vehicles having a common…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-08-04 Gabriella Bretti , Maya Briani , Emiliano Cristiani

In this paper, urban traffic is modeled using dual graph representation of urban transportation network where roads are mapped to nodes and intersections are mapped to links. The proposed model considers both the navigation of vehicles on…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-11-13 Mao-Bin Hu , Rui Jiang , Yong-Hong Wu , Wen-Xu Wang , Qing-Song Wu

Accurate traffic forecasting is a core technology for building Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), enabling better urban resource allocation and improved travel experiences. With growing urbanization, traffic congestion has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Chenyang Yu , Xinpeng Xie , Yan Huang , Chenxi Qiu

For a class of data-fitted macroscopic traffic models, the influence of the choice of the stagnation density on the model accuracy is investigated. This work builds on an established framework of data-fitted first-order…

Physics and Society · Physics 2013-08-05 Shimao Fan , Benjamin Seibold

This paper aims to quantify uncertainty in traffic state estimation (TSE) using the generative adversarial network based physics-informed deep learning (PIDL). The uncertainty of the focus arises from fundamental diagrams, in other words,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-11 Zhaobin Mo , Yongjie Fu , Xuan Di

This paper implements a traffic signal control system by using real-time traffic flow feedback. This system is designed to deal with two-lane intersections. We construct an experiment field similar to the roads and drivers in Taiwan using…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-22 Zong-Ming Lin , Cheng-Yang Chang , Chin-Yu Hu , Yung-Yuan Chen

Rapid urbanization has intensified traffic congestion, environmental strain, and inefficiencies in transportation systems, creating an urgent need for intelligent and adaptive traffic management solutions. Conventional systems relying on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Shaharyar Alam Ansari , Mohammad Luqman , Aasim Zafar , Savir Ali

As a result of significant advances in deep learning, computer vision technology has been widely adopted in the field of traffic surveillance. Nonetheless, it is difficult to find a universal model that can measure traffic parameters…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-25 Seungyun Jeong , Keemin Sohn

Road traffic congestion prediction is a crucial component of intelligent transportation systems, since it enables proactive traffic management, enhances suburban experience, reduces environmental impact, and improves overall safety and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-05 Eren Olug , Kiymet Kaya , Resul Tugay , Sule Gunduz Oguducu

Urban traffic regulation policies are increasingly used to address congestion, emissions, and accessibility in cities, yet their impacts are difficult to assess due to the socio-technical complexity of urban mobility systems. Recent…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Arianna Burzacchi , Marco Pistore

In transportation network analysis, various types of road network data can be used even when focusing on the same region. Since different road network datasets can make different performance in analyses, it is necessary to compare them and…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Hengyi Zhong , Toru Seo

Predicting the current backlog, or traffic load, in framed-ALOHA networks enables the optimization of resource allocation, e.g., of the frame size. However, this prediction is made difficult by the lack of information about the cardinality…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-07-26 Nan Jiang , Yansha Deng , Osvaldo Simeone , Arumugam Nallanathan

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…

This paper presents a novel method for estimating the number of vehicles traveling along signalized approaches using probe vehicle data only. The proposed method uses the Kalman Filtering technique to produce reliable vehicle count…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-04 Mohammad A. Aljamal , Hossam M. Abdelghaffar , Hesham A. Rakha

We present a novel data-driven simulation environment for modeling traffic in metropolitan street intersections. Using real-world tracking data collected over an extended period of time, we train trajectory forecasting models to learn agent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-05 Chengbo Zang , Mehmet Kerem Turkcan , Gil Zussman , Javad Ghaderi , Zoran Kostic

This paper presents a new approach to congestion management at traffic-light intersections. The approach is based on controlling the relative lengths of red/green cycles in order to have the congestion level track a given reference. It uses…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-07-29 Yorai Wardi , Carla Seatzu

This paper proposes a new physics-based approach to effectively control congestion in a network of interconnected roads (NOIR). The paper integrates mass flow conservation and diffusion-based dynamics to model traffic coordination in a…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2019-07-02 Hossein Rastgoftar