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The development of smart cities requires innovative sensing solutions for efficient and low-cost urban environment monitoring. Bike-sharing systems, with their wide coverage, flexible mobility, and dense urban distribution, present a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-10 Wen Ji , Ke Han , Qi Hao , Qian Ge , Ying Long

In recent years, innovative roadside parking vacancy crowdsensing solutions have emerged as a cost-effective alternative to traditional methods, which can significantly reduce sensor installation and maintenance expenses. This crowdsensing…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-13 Boyu Pang , Ruizhi Liao , Yinyu Ye

Modeling traffic dynamics is a critical challenge for urban computing, with applications from real-time traffic management to infrastructure planning. However, progress in this area is fundamentally constrained by a lack of large-scale…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Fedor Velikonivtsev , Oleg Platonov , Ekaterina Alimaskina , Gleb Bazhenov , Liudmila Prokhorenkova

In this paper, we consider a sensor placement problem where sensors can move within a network over time. Sensor placement problem aims to select K sensor positions from N candidates where K < N. Most existing methods assume that sensor…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-20 Saki Nomura , Junya Hara , Hiroshi Higashi , Yuichi Tanaka

We present a multi-stage optimization method for efficient sensor deployment in traffic surveillance scenarios. Based on a genetic optimization scheme, our algorithm places an optimal number of roadside sensors to obtain full road coverage…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-12-05 Florian Geissler , Ralf Graefe

Large infrastructure networks (e.g. for transportation and power distribution) require constant monitoring for failures, congestion, and other adversarial events. However, assigning a sensor to every link in the network is often infeasible…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-08 Arnav Burudgunte , Arlei Silva

Many vehicles spend a significant amount of time in urban traffic congestion. Due to the evolution of autonomous cars, driver assistance systems, and in-vehicle entertainment, many vehicles have plentiful computational and communication…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Kanika Sharma , Bernard Butler , Brendan Jennings

The escalation in urban private car ownership has worsened the urban parking predicament, necessitating effective parking availability prediction for urban planning and management. However, the existing prediction methods suffer from low…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Yin Huang , Yongqi Dong , Youhua Tang , Li Li

Tracking congestion throughout the network road is a critical component of Intelligent transportation network management systems. Understanding how the traffic flows and short-term prediction of congestion occurrence due to rush-hour or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-07-27 Mohammadhani Fouladgar , Mostafa Parchami , Ramez Elmasri , Amir Ghaderi

Effective urban traffic monitoring is essential for improving mobility, enhancing safety, and supporting sustainable cities. Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) enables large-scale traffic observation by transforming existing fiber-optic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Izhan Fakhruzi , Manuel Titos , Carmen Benítez , Luz García

This paper concerns the data-driven sensor deployment problem in large spatiotemporal fields. Traditionally, sensor deployment strategies have been heavily dependent on model-based planning approaches. However, model-based approaches do not…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-04 Jiahong Chen

The volume and types of traffic data in mobile cellular networks have been increasing continuously. Meanwhile, traffic data change dynamically in several dimensions such as time and space. Thus, traffic modeling is essential for theoretical…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-04-03 Shuo Wang , Xing Zhang , Jiaxin Zhang , Jian Feng , Wenbo Wang , Ke Xin

Traffic prediction is a crucial topic because of its broad scope of applications in the transportation domain. Recently, various studies have achieved promising results. However, most studies assume the prediction locations have complete or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Hao Mei , Junxian Li , Zhiming Liang , Guanjie Zheng , Bin Shi , Hua Wei

This paper considers the dispatching of large-scale real-time ride-sharing systems to address congestion issues faced by many cities. The goal is to serve all customers (service guarantees) with a small number of vehicles while minimizing…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-03-25 Connor Riley , Pascal Van Hentenryck , Enpeng Yuan

Transportation planning plays a critical role in shaping urban development, economic mobility, and infrastructure sustainability. However, traditional planning methods often struggle to accurately predict long-term urban growth and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Eugene Denteh , Andrews Danyo , Joshua Kofi Asamoah , Blessing Agyei Kyem , Twitchell Addai , Armstrong Aboah

Understanding the spatial dynamics of cars within urban systems is essential for optimizing infrastructure management and resource allocation. Recent empirical approaches for analyzing traffic patterns have gained traction due to their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Kangan Qian , Jinyu Miao , Xinyu Jiao , Ziang Luo , Zheng Fu , Yining Shi , Yunlong Wang , Kun Jiang , Diange Yang

Traffic flow forecasting is a crucial task in urban computing. The challenge arises as traffic flows often exhibit intrinsic and latent spatio-temporal correlations that cannot be identified by extracting the spatial and temporal patterns…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-02 Song Yang , Jiamou Liu , Kaiqi Zhao

We present an advanced interpolation method for estimating smooth spatiotemporal profiles for local highway traffic variables such as flow, speed and density. The method is based on stationary detector data as typically collected by traffic…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2011-08-25 Martin Treiber , Arne Kesting , R. Eddie Wilson

As the demand for vehicles continues to outpace construction of new roads, it becomes imperative we implement strategies that improve utilization of existing transport infrastructure. Traffic sensors form a crucial part of many such…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-25 Forough Yaghoubi , Armin Catovic , Arthur Gusmao , Jan Pieczkowski , Peter Boros

Spatiotemporal (ST) data collected by sensors can be represented as multi-variate time series, which is a sequence of data points listed in an order of time. Despite the vast amount of useful information, the ST data usually suffer from the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-20 Li Jiang , Ting Zhang , Qiruyi Zuo , Chenyu Tian , George P. Chan , Wai Kin , Chan