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2 Citations
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Prediction of Apron Queue Length Based on a Single-Server Queueing Network Model

  • Nan Li,
  • Jun An,
  • Jiayi Peng,
  • Xavier Olive and ,
  • Xiao Liu and
  • Zheng Gao
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

6 February 2026

Airport aprons are complex, multi-node operational hubs frequently affected by queue congestion resulting from control handovers, taxi conflicts, and external factors. To enable proactive congestion management, we propose a new and accurate method fo...

(This article belongs to the Section Air Traffic and Transportation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3,234 Views
8 Pages

7 August 2019

Time-dependent solutions to queuing models are beneficial for evaluating the performance of real-world systems such as communication, transportation, and service systems. However, restricted results have been reported due to mathematical complexity....

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Stochastic Processes: Theory and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
6,124 Views
15 Pages

Real-Time Queue Length Detection with Roadside LiDAR Data

  • Jianqing Wu,
  • Hao Xu,
  • Yongsheng Zhang,
  • Yuan Tian and
  • Xiuguang Song

20 April 2020

Real-time queue length information is an important input for many traffic applications. This paper presents a novel method for real-time queue length detection with roadside LiDAR data. Vehicles on the road were continuously tracked with the LiDAR da...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Smart Sensors and Devices in Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,203 Views
21 Pages

Evaluating Real Time Ramp Meter Queue Length and Wait Time Estimation

  • Tanner J. Daines,
  • Grant G. Schultz and
  • Gregory S. Macfarlane

Models to predict ramp meter queue length from traffic detector data are potentially useful tools in improving traffic operations and safety. Existing research, however, has been based on microscopic simulation or relied on extensive calibration of K...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,253 Views
8 Pages

23 August 2024

In this paper, we present research results that extend and supplement our article recently published by MDPI. We derive the closed-form relations among the queue-length probabilities observed in the pre-arrival, random, and post-departure epochs for...

(This article belongs to the Section D1: Probability and Statistics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
122 Citations
7,445 Views
22 Pages

Connected Vehicle as a Mobile Sensor for Real Time Queue Length at Signalized Intersections

  • Kai Gao,
  • Farong Han,
  • Pingping Dong,
  • Naixue Xiong and
  • Ronghua Du

2 May 2019

With the development of intelligent transportation system (ITS) and vehicle to X (V2X), the connected vehicle is capable of sensing a great deal of useful traffic information, such as queue length at intersections. Aiming to solve the problem of exis...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Algorithm and Distributed Computing for the Internet of Things)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,434 Views
22 Pages

Study on Queue Length in the Whole Process of a Traffic Accident in an Extra-Long Tunnel

  • Ruru Xing,
  • Xiaoyu Cai,
  • Yuan Liu,
  • Zepeng Yang and ,
  • Yuting Wang and
  • Bo Peng
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

7 April 2023

To investigate traffic accident patterns in undersea tunnels and quantify the relationship among various factors and traffic accidents in undersea tunnels, we analyzed the rules of evolution during the entire process of vehicle congestion queuing. Ad...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,009 Views
17 Pages

10 November 2020

For uninterrupted traffic flow, it is well-known that the fundamental diagram (FD) describes the relationship between traffic flow and density under steady state. To study the characteristics of interrupted traffic flow on a signalized link, a link f...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
5,445 Views
18 Pages

An Integrated Algorithm for Intersection Queue Length Estimation Based on IoT in a Mixed Traffic Scenario

  • Kai Gao,
  • Shuo Huang,
  • Farong Han,
  • Shuo Li and ,
  • Wenguang Wu and
  • Ronghua Du
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

19 March 2020

Nowadays, traffic infrastructures and vehicles are connected through the network benefiting from the development of Internet of Things (IoT). Connected automated cars can provide some useful traffic information. An architecture and algorithm of mobil...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Intelligent Transportation Systems: Beyond Intelligent Vehicles)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,145 Views
15 Pages

Innovative Dynamic Queue-Length Estimation Using Google Maps Color-Code Data

  • Promporn Sornsoongnern,
  • Suthatip Pueboobpaphan and
  • Rattaphol Pueboobpaphan

14 February 2023

Queue length is an important parameter for traffic-signal priority systems for emergency vehicles. Instead of using conventional detector data, this paper investigates the feasibility of queue-length estimation using Google Maps color-code data via r...

(This article belongs to the Topic Intelligent Transportation Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
894 Views
19 Pages

Automatic Real-Time Queue Length Detection Method of Multiple Lanes at Intersections Based on Roadside LiDAR

  • Qian Chen,
  • Jianying Zheng,
  • Ennian Du,
  • Xiang Wang and ,
  • Wenjuan E,
  • Xingxing Jiang,
  • Yang Xiao,
  • Yuxin Zhang and
  • Tieshan Li
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

Signal intersections are key nodes in urban road traffic networks, and real-time queue length information serves as a core performance indicator for formulating effective signal management schemes in modern adaptive traffic signal control systems, th...

(This article belongs to the Section Computer Science & Engineering)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
39 Citations
10,898 Views
19 Pages

Efficient Video-based Vehicle Queue Length Estimation using Computer Vision and Deep Learning for an Urban Traffic Scenario

  • Muhammad Umair,
  • Muhammad Umar Farooq,
  • Rana Hammad Raza,
  • Qian Chen and
  • Baher Abdulhai

8 October 2021

In the Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) realm, queue length estimation is one of an essential yet a challenging task. Queue lengths are important for determining traffic density in traffic lanes so that possible congestion in any lane can be m...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advance in Machine Learning)
  • Article
  • Open Access
367 Views
23 Pages

25 August 2026

Frame aggregation is central to modern IEEE 802.11 networks, yet the existing performance models fail to capture how it behaves under usual unsaturated traffic. Some rely on a predefined service-time distribution; others cover only narrow unsaturated...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
6,788 Views
17 Pages

Queue Length Forecasting in Complex Manufacturing Job Shops

  • Marvin Carl May,
  • Alexander Albers,
  • Marc David Fischer,
  • Florian Mayerhofer and ,
  • Louis Schäfer and
  • Gisela Lanza
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

11 May 2021

Currently, manufacturing is characterized by increasing complexity both on the technical and organizational levels. Thus, more complex and intelligent production control methods are developed in order to remain competitive and achieve operational exc...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Forecasting with Machine Learning Techniques)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,805 Views
19 Pages

6 November 2025

This paper analyzes a finite-capacity Markovian queueing system with two customer types, each assigned to a separate buffer, and a single alternating server whose service priority is dynamically controlled by a queue-length-based threshold policy. Th...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Queueing Theory and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,233 Views
18 Pages

8 March 2021

As international trade and freight volumes increase, there is a growing port congestion problem, leading to the long truck queues at US marine terminal gates. To address this problem, some countermeasures have been proposed and implemented for reduci...

(This article belongs to the Collection Sustainable Maritime Policy and Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,556 Views
19 Pages

2 January 2023

We performed a non-stationary analysis of a class of buffer management schemes for TCP/IP networks, in which the arriving packets were rejected randomly, with probability depending on the queue length. In particular, we derived formulas for the packe...

(This article belongs to the Section Communications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,580 Views
16 Pages

Transient GI/MSP/1/N Queue

  • Andrzej Chydzinski

22 September 2024

A non-zero correlation between service times can be encountered in many real queueing systems. An attractive model for correlated service times is the Markovian service process, because it offers powerful fitting capabilities combined with analytical...

(This article belongs to the Section Information Theory, Probability and Statistics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,017 Views
15 Pages

13 November 2022

In the manuscript, a probability distribution of the queue length is studied in a model with group Markov arrivals, arbitrarily distributed service times and finite waiting room. After the period of suspension of service due to lack of packets, each...

(This article belongs to the Section F: Electrical Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,841 Views
23 Pages

27 August 2024

Ensuring high reliability and low latency poses challenges for numerous applications that require rigid performance guarantees, such as industrial automation and autonomous vehicles. Our research primarily concentrates on addressing the real-time req...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,311 Views
19 Pages

23 July 2024

This study assessed the impacts of a toll information sign with different toll lane configurations on queue length and collision risk at a toll plaza with an estimated high percentage of heavy vehicles (HVs). The toll information sign displays inform...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Emerging Transportation Safety and Operations: Practical Perspectives)
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  • Open Access
26 Views
18 Pages

5 November 2026

Lane selection and lane-change decisions by connected and autonomous vehicles (CAVs) require queue-length information at lane resolution, which corridor-level estimation methods do not provide. This paper presents the Lane-by-lane Queue Information P...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Smart Traffic Control Based on Sensor Technology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,897 Views
16 Pages

5 March 2024

This paper presents our research on a traffic signal control system (TSCS) at V2X intersections. The overall objective of the study is to create an implementable TSCS. The specific objective of this paper is to investigate a distributed system toward...

(This article belongs to the Section E1: Mathematics and Computer Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,737 Views
18 Pages

20 April 2022

A bi-level model for traffic signal optimization is developed. The model predictive framework is applied for traffic control in an urban traffic network. The potential of the bi-level formalization is used to increase the space of control influences...

(This article belongs to the Section Transportation and Future Mobility)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,862 Views
16 Pages

6 June 2022

Median U-turn intersection treatment (MUIT) has been considered as an alternative measure to reduce congestion and traffic conflict at intersection areas, but the required spacing between the U-turn opening and the intersection limits its applicabili...

(This article belongs to the Topic Sustainable Transportation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,047 Views
16 Pages

Connected and automated vehicles (CAV) are growing in popularity and could have potential implications on the transportation system. The effects of CAVs have yet to be fully realized because of the newness of the technology. Anticipated effects inclu...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Autonomous Vehicles and Urban Evolution: Technological, Social and Environmental Perspectives)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,485 Views
58 Pages

Adaptive Traffic Signal Control Using Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning: A Comparison of Control Strategies

  • Mahmoud Owais,
  • Badr O. Mohammed,
  • Abdulrahman A. Kamal,
  • Abdulrahman Shaban and ,
  • Ahmed H. Mostafa,
  • Kareem Hatem,
  • John Emad,
  • Salah T. Younis,
  • Samia A. Ali and
  • Islam M. Alkabbany
  • + 6 authors+ 1 author

4 June 2026

Urban traffic congestion remains a persistent challenge for conventional fixed-time signal control, particularly under fluctuating and asymmetric demand. Although multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) has shown promise for adaptive traffic signal...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable and Smart Transportation Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
6,933 Views
27 Pages

Efficient toll processing is critical for mitigating traffic congestion and enhancing transportation network efficiency at toll stations. This study explores the Neelamangala Toll Plaza on India’s National Highway 48, employing artificial intelligenc...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Machine Learning for Sustainable Planning and Modelling in Future Smart Transportation System)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,930 Views
27 Pages

A Stochastic Methodology for EV Fast-Charging Load Curve Estimation Considering the Highway Traffic and User Behavior

  • Leonardo Nogueira Fontoura da Silva,
  • Marcelo Bruno Capeletti,
  • Alzenira da Rosa Abaide and
  • Luciano Lopes Pfitscher

8 April 2024

The theoretical impact of the electric vehicle (EV) market share growth has been widely discussed with regards to technical and socioeconomic aspects in recent years. However, the prospection of EV scenarios is a challenge, and the difficulty increas...

(This article belongs to the Collection Electric and Hybrid Vehicles Collection)
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
5,481 Views
20 Pages

Adaptive Deep Q-Network Algorithm with Exponential Reward Mechanism for Traffic Control in Urban Intersection Networks

  • Muhammad Riza Tanwirul Fuad,
  • Eric Okto Fernandez,
  • Faqihza Mukhlish,
  • Adiyana Putri and ,
  • Herman Yoseph Sutarto,
  • Yosi Agustina Hidayat and
  • Endra Joelianto
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

6 November 2022

The demand for transportation has increased significantly in recent decades in line with the increasing demand for passenger and freight mobility, especially in urban areas. One of the most negative impacts is the increasing level of traffic congesti...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Transportation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,807 Views
17 Pages

20 July 2021

In this paper, we consider a discrete-time multiserver queueing system with correlation in the arrival process and in the server availability. Specifically, we are interested in the delay characteristics. The system is assumed to be in one of two dif...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applications of Mathematical Analysis in Telecommunications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,187 Views
27 Pages

30 January 2025

This paper introduces a two-stage adaptive Kalman filter algorithm to estimate and predict traffic states required for real-time traffic signal control. Leveraging probe vehicle trajectory and upstream detector data, turning movement (TM) counts in t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue AI and Smart Sensors for Intelligent Transportation Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,204 Views
13 Pages

29 March 2021

The frame construction of an apartment complex that consists of multiple buildings encounters various uncertainties, owing to the complex relationships between units of work. Currently, the period of such a construction is calculated based on the num...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainability and Industry 4.0 in Civil and Infrastructure Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,977 Views
15 Pages

Queue Spillover Management in a Connected Vehicle Environment

  • Chuanxiang Ren,
  • Wenbo Zhang,
  • Lingqiao Qin and
  • Bo Sun

10 August 2018

To alleviate the queue spillovers at intersections of urban roads during rush hours, a solution to the cross-spill problem based on vehicle networking technologies is proposed. This involves using connected vehicle technology, to realize the interact...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,754 Views
28 Pages

15 August 2020

In the lane-based signal optimization model, permitted turn directions in the form of lane markings that guide road users to turn at an intersection are optimized with traffic signal settings. The spatial queue requirements of approach lanes should b...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
4,780 Views
27 Pages

Enhancing Urban Intersection Efficiency: Utilizing Visible Light Communication and Learning-Driven Control for Improved Traffic Signal Performance

  • Manuela Vieira,
  • Manuel Augusto Vieira,
  • Gonçalo Galvão,
  • Paula Louro and ,
  • Mário Véstias and
  • Pedro Vieira
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

4 April 2024

This paper introduces an approach to enhance the efficiency of urban intersections by integrating Visible Light Communication (VLC) into a multi-intersection traffic control system. The main objectives include the reduction in waiting times for vehic...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Emerging Transportation Safety and Operations: Practical Perspectives)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,787 Views
13 Pages

An Adaptive Signal Control Method with Optimal Detector Locations

  • Senlai Zhu,
  • Ke Guo,
  • Yuntao Guo,
  • Huairen Tao and
  • Quan Shi

30 January 2019

The adaptive traffic signal control system is a key component of intelligent transportation systems and has a primary role in effectively reducing traffic congestion. The high costs of implementation and maintenance limit the applicability of the ada...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable and Intelligent Transportation Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,811 Views
16 Pages

8 May 2019

Today’s data centers host a variety of different applications that impose specific requirements for their flows. Applications that generate short flows are usually latency sensitive; they require their flows to be completed as fast as possible....

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,221 Views
22 Pages

11 January 2025

It is known that a correlation in either the service or interarrival times causes a deterioration in the performance of a queuing system. This study aimed to determine which of the two correlations—in the service times or in the interarrival ti...

(This article belongs to the Section A: Computer Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,994 Views
26 Pages

24 February 2023

In this paper, we discuss the waiting-time distribution for a finite-space, single-server queueing system, in which customers arrive singly following a Poisson process and the server operates under (a,b)-bulk service rule. The queueing system has a f...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Probability and Stochastic Processes with Applications to Communications, Systems and Networks, 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
4,199 Views
15 Pages

17 March 2020

This study analyzes the performance of a queue length-dependent overload control policy using a leaky bucket (LB) scheme. This queueing model is applied to the operation of a battery swapping and charging station for electric vehicles (EVs). In addit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,367 Views
11 Pages

30 July 2019

Consideration is given to the nonstationary analogue of M / M / 1 queueing model in which the service happens only in batches of size 2, with the arrival rate λ ( t ) and the service rate μ ( t ) . One proposes a new...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Stochastic Processes: Theory and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
234 Views
34 Pages

25 September 2026

This paper studies an N-policy M(λ1,λ2)/G/1 repairable queue in which arrival rates depend on the server state and multiple vacations may be interrupted by a Bernoulli decision. When the queue first reaches N during a vacation, the serv...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Mathematical Methods in Optimal Control and Applications, 2nd Edition)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
9,158 Views
14 Pages

7 December 2021

Due to the increasing use of private cars for urbanization and urban transport, the travel time of urban transportation is increasing. People spend a lot of time in the streets, and the queue length of waiting increases accordingly; this has direct e...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Lightweight AI for Internet of Things Devices for Smart Cities)
  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
5,556 Views
16 Pages

14 December 2020

The current problem of packets generation and transformation around the world is router congestion, which then leads to a decline in the network performance in term of queuing delay (D) and packet loss (PL). The existing active queue management (AQM)...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Information Technologies and Electronics Ⅱ)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,866 Views
33 Pages

Modeling of Queue Detector Location at Signalized Roundabouts via VISSIM Micro-Simulation Software in Amman City, Jordan

  • Amani Abdallah Assolie,
  • Nur Sabahiah Abdul Sukor,
  • Ibrahim Khliefat and
  • Teh Sabariah Binti Abd Manan

23 May 2023

The growing number of vehicles in Jordan has contributed to traffic congestion, particularly at roundabouts. Roundabouts deflect high volumes of traffic flow. To improve the performance of roundabouts, it is necessary to consider the impact of all co...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Transportation System Management and Optimization)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,868 Views
22 Pages

22 September 2022

Bulk-service queueing systems have been widely applied in many areas in real life. While single-server queueing systems work in some cases, multi-servers can efficiently handle most complex applications. Bulk-service, multi-server queueing systems (c...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Probability and Stochastic Processes with Applications to Communications, Systems and Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,922 Views
14 Pages

Two-Level Full Factorial Design Approach for the Analysis of Multi-Lane Highway Section under Saturated and Unsaturated Traffic Flow Conditions

  • Hamad Almujibah,
  • Afaq Khattak,
  • Saleh Alotaibi,
  • Raed Alahmadi and ,
  • Adil Elhassan,
  • Abdullah Alshahri and
  • Caroline Mongina Matara
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

7 June 2023

Oversaturation of highways occurs due to their inadequate assessment and design. In this paper, we propose both a mathematical queuing model and a Discrete-Event Simulation (DES) framework based on Newell’s triangular flow-density relationship...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,461 Views
13 Pages

This paper deals with queueing models, in which the number of customers is described by a (inhomogeneous, in general) birth–death process. Depending on the choice of the type of intensities for the arrival and service of customers, the system c...

(This article belongs to the Section Computational Engineering)

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