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  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,883 Views
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Tensor Decomposition for Spatial—Temporal Traffic Flow Prediction with Sparse Data

  • Funing Yang,
  • Guoliang Liu,
  • Liping Huang and
  • Cheng Siong Chin

24 October 2020

Urban transport traffic surveillance is of great importance for public traffic control and personal travel path planning. Effective and efficient traffic flow prediction is helpful to optimize these real applications. The main challenge of traffic fl...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue State-of-the-Art Sensors Technology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,960 Views
13 Pages

19 February 2019

Based on comparative studies on correlation coefficient theory and utility theory, a series of rules that utility functions on dual hesitant fuzzy rough sets (DHFRSs) should satisfy, and a kind of novel utility function on DHFRSs are proposed. The ch...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,833 Views
18 Pages

Analysis and Prediction of the IPv6 Traffic over Campus Networks in Shanghai

  • Zhiyang Sun,
  • Hui Ruan,
  • Yixin Cao,
  • Yang Chen and
  • Xin Wang

27 November 2022

With the exhaustion of IPv4 addresses, research on the adoption, deployment, and prediction of IPv6 networks becomes more and more significant. This paper analyzes the IPv6 traffic of two campus networks in Shanghai, China. We first conduct a series...

(This article belongs to the Topic Big Data and Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,756 Views
15 Pages

30 December 2020

With the rapid development of positioning techniques, a large amount of human travel trajectory data is collected. These datasets have become an effective data resource for obtaining urban traffic patterns. However, many traffic analyses are only bas...

(This article belongs to the Section Intelligent Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
4,488 Views
12 Pages

Improved Spatio-Temporal Residual Networks for Bus Traffic Flow Prediction

  • Panbiao Liu,
  • Yong Zhang,
  • Dehui Kong and
  • Baocai Yin

13 February 2019

Buses, as the most commonly used public transport, play a significant role in cities. Predicting bus traffic flow cannot only build an efficient and safe transportation network but also improve the current situation of road traffic congestion, which...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Artificial Intelligence Applications to Smart City and Smart Enterprise)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,415 Views
22 Pages

Characterizing the Evolution of Multi-Scale Communities in Urban Road Networks

  • Yifan Wang,
  • Yi Li,
  • Xingwa Song,
  • Shilong Wang and
  • Ning Wang

21 October 2025

The growing abundance of traffic data offers new opportunities to uncover dynamic traffic patterns in urban road networks, providing valuable insights for promoting sustainable mobility. By leveraging these data, road segments can be grouped into com...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Data-Driven Transportation Systems: Emerging Trends, Challenges, and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,291 Views
23 Pages

Modeling and Classification of Random Traffic Patterns for Fatigue Analysis of Highway Bridges

  • Xianglong Zheng,
  • Bin Chen,
  • Zhicheng Zhang,
  • He Zhang and ,
  • Jing Liu and
  • Jingyao Zhang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

With the increasing severity of traffic congestion, the impact of random traffic patterns has emerged as an indispensable factor in the fatigue design and assessment of highway bridges. In this study, an analytical approach has been proposed for mode...

(This article belongs to the Section Infrastructures and Structural Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,525 Views
19 Pages

Nonlinear Influence of Urban Environment on Dockless Shared Bicycle Travel Patterns

  • Yonggang Shen,
  • Long Zhang,
  • Yancun Song,
  • Chengquan Wang and
  • Zhenwei Yu

16 May 2025

In response to the lack of ability to handle multidimensional data in current research methods for shared bicycle travel patterns, and the fact that correlation analysis is only conducted on a single feature, this study investigates the travel patter...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Urban and Rural Development)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
6,206 Views
14 Pages

Traffic anomaly detection is crucial for urban management, yet current research is often confined to small-scale endeavors. This study collected 9 months of real-time Wuhan traffic-monitoring data from Amap. We propose Traffic-ConvLSTM, a multi-scale...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in AI-Driven Geospatial Analysis and Data Generation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,884 Views
14 Pages

19 December 2017

Landscape patterns are closely related to ecological processes. Different spatial scales and research methods may lead to different results. Therefore, it is crucial to choose suitable research methods when studying different landscape patterns and e...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,109 Views
22 Pages

18 August 2025

In the realm of urban vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs), cross-domain data has constituted a multifaceted amalgamation of information sources, which significantly enhances the accuracy and response speed of traffic prediction. However, the interplay...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensor Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
6,127 Views
19 Pages

MD-GCN: A Multi-Scale Temporal Dual Graph Convolution Network for Traffic Flow Prediction

  • Xiaohui Huang,
  • Junyang Wang,
  • Yuanchun Lan,
  • Chaojie Jiang and
  • Xinhua Yuan

11 January 2023

The spatial–temporal prediction of traffic flow is very important for traffic management and planning. The most difficult challenges of traffic flow prediction are the temporal feature extraction and the spatial correlation extraction of nodes....

(This article belongs to the Topic Intelligent Transportation Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
5,074 Views
21 Pages

Short-term traffic forecasting plays an important part in intelligent transportation systems. Spatiotemporal k-nearest neighbor models (ST-KNNs) have been widely adopted for short-term traffic forecasting in which spatiotemporal matrices are construc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,845 Views
23 Pages

15 April 2025

Traffic volume estimation is a fundamental task in Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS). The highly unbalanced and asymmetric spatiotemporal distribution of traffic flow combined with the sparse and uneven deployment of sensors pose significant c...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Machine Learning with Symmetry/Asymmetry in Transportation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,121 Views
25 Pages

A Dynamic Trajectory Temporal Density Model for Analyzing Maritime Traffic Patterns

  • Dapeng Jiang,
  • Guoyou Shi,
  • Lin Ma,
  • Weifeng Li and ,
  • Xinjian Wang and
  • Guibing Zhu
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

19 February 2025

This study investigates the spatiotemporal density aggregation and pattern distribution of vessel traffic amidst bustling maritime logistics scenarios. Firstly, a relatively new spatiotemporal segmentation and reconstruction method is proposed for sh...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advancements in Maritime Safety and Risk Assessment)
  • Article
  • Open Access
62 Citations
6,476 Views
12 Pages

Dietary Patterns and Association with Obesity of Children Aged 6–17 Years in Medium and Small Cities in China: Findings from the CNHS 2010–2012

  • Dan Liu,
  • Li-Yun Zhao,
  • Dong-Mei Yu,
  • La-Hong Ju and ,
  • Jian Zhang,
  • Jing-Zhong Wang and
  • Wen-Hua Zhao
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

20 December 2018

Childhood obesity is associated with both near- and longer-term health implications. Few studies have been conducted to explore the associations between dietary patterns and obesity among Chinese children and adolescents. The present study was design...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,484 Views
22 Pages

23 January 2023

Telecommuting and telelearning have gradually become mainstream lifestyles in the post-epidemic era. The extensive interconnection of massive terminals gives attackers more opportunities, which brings more significant challenges to network traffic se...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Network Traffic Security Analysis)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,128 Views
30 Pages

7 August 2025

Path flow always plays a critical role in extracting vehicle travel patterns and reflecting network-scale traffic features. However, the comprehensive topological structure of urban road networks induces massive route choices, so frequent travel rout...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Application of Mathematical Methods to Transportation: Modeling and Analysis)
  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
3,950 Views
15 Pages

13 December 2023

Accurate traffic prediction is vital for traffic management, control, and urbanization construction. Extensive research efforts have diligently focused on capturing the intricate spatio-temporal relationships that are inherent in traffic data. Howeve...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Intelligent Big Data Analysis for High-Dimensional Internet of Things)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,741 Views
21 Pages

A CNN-LSTM-GRU Hybrid Model for Spatiotemporal Highway Traffic Flow Prediction

  • Jinsong Zhang,
  • Junyi Sha,
  • Chunyu Zhang and
  • Yijin Zhang

1 September 2025

The rapid growth in the number of motor vehicles has exacerbated traffic congestion. The occurrence of congestion not only poses significant challenges for traffic management authorities but also severely impacts residents’ travel and daily rou...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Modelling and Simulation of Transportation Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,100 Views
18 Pages

GATR: A Road Network Traffic Violation Prediction Method Based on Graph Attention Network

  • Yuquan Zhou,
  • Yingzhi Wang,
  • Feng Zhang,
  • Hongye Zhou and ,
  • Keran Sun and
  • Yuhan Yu
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

Prediction of traffic violations plays a key role in transportation safety. Combining with deep learning to predict traffic violations has become a new development trend. However, existing methods are based on regular spatial grids which leads to a f...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,979 Views
23 Pages

20 May 2024

In the realm of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSs), traffic flow prediction is crucial for multiple applications. The primary challenge in traffic flow prediction lies in the handling and modeling of the intricate spatial–temporal correl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
5,985 Views
17 Pages

21 September 2017

Issues of missing data have become increasingly serious with the rapid increase in usage of traffic sensors. Analyses of the Beijing ring expressway have showed that up to 50% of microwave sensors pose missing values. The imputation of missing traffi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sensor Networks for Smart Roads)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,698 Views
16 Pages

SASTGCN: A Self-Adaptive Spatio-Temporal Graph Convolutional Network for Traffic Prediction

  • Wei Li,
  • Xi Zhan,
  • Xin Liu,
  • Lei Zhang and ,
  • Yu Pan and
  • Zhisong Pan
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

Traffic prediction plays a significant part in creating intelligent cities such as traffic management, urban computing, and public safety. Nevertheless, the complex spatio-temporal linkages and dynamically shifting patterns make it somewhat challengi...

(This article belongs to the Topic Artificial Intelligence in Navigation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,350 Views
19 Pages

4 October 2025

With the escalating global cyber threats, Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks have become one of the most disruptive and prevalent network attacks. Traditional DDoS detection systems face significant challenges due to the unpredictable natur...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Artificial Intelligence in Modern Cybersecurity: Changes, Applications and Challenges)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,284 Views
13 Pages

A Recognition Method of Truck Drivers’ Braking Patterns Based on FCM-LDA2vec

  • Jianfeng Xi,
  • Yunhe Zhao,
  • Zhiqiang Li,
  • Yizhou Jiang and ,
  • Wenwen Feng and
  • Tongqiang Ding
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

Taking truck drivers’ braking patterns as the research objects, this study used a large amount of truck running data. A recognition method of truck drivers’ braking patterns was proposed to determine the distribution of braking patterns d...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The 2nd Edition: Promotion of Big Data and Intelligent Transportation to Traffic Safety and the Environment)
  • Article
  • Open Access
214 Views
21 Pages

Mapping Information Flows in Urban Traffic Networks: A Transfer Entropy Approach

  • Vera Pecorino,
  • Giovanni Calabrò,
  • Alessandro Pluchino,
  • Giuseppe Inturri and
  • Salvatore Cavalieri

14 October 2026

This study applies Transfer Entropy (TE) to floating car data from the urban road network of Catania (Italy) to investigate directional dependencies in traffic flows and identify relevant patterns of information transfer. Unlike traditional correlati...

(This article belongs to the Section Multidisciplinary Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,067 Views
30 Pages

10 February 2025

Short-time traffic flow prediction is essential for intelligent traffic management. By accurately predicting traffic conditions in the near future, it helps to alleviate congestion, improve road efficiency, reduce accidents, and support timely traffi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,069 Views
15 Pages

Modeling of Vessel Traffic Flow for Waterway Design–Port of Świnoujście Case Study

  • Agnieszka Nowy,
  • Kinga Łazuga,
  • Lucjan Gucma,
  • Andrej Androjna and ,
  • Marko Perkovič and
  • Jure Srše
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

1 September 2021

The paper presents an analysis of ship traffic using the port of Świnoujście and the problems associated with modelling vessel traffic flows. Navigation patterns were studied using the Automatic Identification System (AIS); an analysis of vessel traf...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Application of Surveying and Navigation Systems to Increase the Safety and Robustness of Maritime Operations)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,088 Views
21 Pages

19 April 2024

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a substantial impact on the lives of city residents and has reshaped working patterns, with a concomitant impact on traffic accidents. We correlated data from multiple sources to explore the impact of residents’ mo...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Road Transport System Planning and Optimization)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,048 Views
14 Pages

A Data-Driven Approach to Analyze Mobility Patterns and the Built Environment: Evidence from Brescia, Catania, and Salerno (Italy)

  • Rosita De Vincentis,
  • Federico Karagulian,
  • Carlo Liberto,
  • Marialisa Nigro and ,
  • Vincenza Rosati and
  • Gaetano Valenti
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

3 November 2022

Investigating the correlation between urban mobility patterns and the built environment is crucial to support an integrated approach to transportation and land-use planning in modern cities. In this study, we aim to conduct a data-driven analysis of...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Development Trends of Sustainable Mobility)
  • Article
  • Open Access
129 Citations
13,978 Views
17 Pages

Influence of Traffic Activity on Heavy Metal Concentrations of Roadside Farmland Soil in Mountainous Areas

  • Fan Zhang,
  • Xuedong Yan,
  • Chen Zeng,
  • Man Zhang and ,
  • Suraj Shrestha,
  • Lochan Prasad Devkota and
  • Tandong Yao
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

Emission of heavy metals from traffic activities is an important pollution source to roadside farmland ecosystems. However, little previous research has been conducted to investigate heavy metal concentrations of roadside farmland soil in mountainous...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,437 Views
13 Pages

7 December 2022

The transport of information packets in complex networks is a prototype system for the study of traffic jamming, a nonlinear dynamic phenomenon that arises with increased traffic load and limited network capacity. The underlying mathematical framewor...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,921 Views
20 Pages

The Spatial Pattern and Influencing Factors of Traffic Dominance in Xi’an Metropolitan Area

  • Julin Li,
  • Tongsheng Li,
  • Bingchen Zhu,
  • Yilin Wang and ,
  • Xieyang Chen and
  • Ruikuan Liu
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

30 May 2023

Metropolitan areas shoulder the crucial task of regional and even national economic development. Analyzing the spatial patterns and influencing factors of metropolitan traffic dominance can provide a scientific basis for the optimization of its trans...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Urban Infrastructure Development, Land-Related Policy and Socio-Economic Impacts in Emerging Economies)
  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
6,910 Views
22 Pages

Transport planning strategies regard cycling promotion as a suitable means for tackling problems connected with motorized traffic such as limited space, congestion, and pollution. However, the evidence base for optimizing cycling promotion is weak in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,318 Views
18 Pages

24 November 2023

With the rapid development of the global economy and trade, the number of ships serving ports in China is increasing continuously. Port traffic is becoming busier, and ship behavior is more complex and changeable. The analysis of ship behavior patter...

(This article belongs to the Topic Recent Advances in Green Maritime Transport and Resilient Maritime Supply Chain)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,897 Views
17 Pages

22 December 2021

In this 21st century, there has been an increase in the usage of renewable products for the economic drifting of vehicle transportations systems. Furthermore, due to recent trends in climate change, researchers have started focusing on statistical op...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Transportation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
73 Citations
8,824 Views
15 Pages

11 January 2020

City-wide traffic flow forecasting is a significant function of the Intelligent Transport System (ITS), which plays an important role in city traffic management and public travel safety. However, this remains a very challenging task that is affected...

(This article belongs to the Collection Positioning and Navigation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,811 Views
24 Pages

14 May 2025

Regional comprehensive transportation infrastructures constitute the fundamental basis for the development of inland urban agglomerations. To elucidate the role of comprehensive transportation in shaping the spatial organization and expansion of urba...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Territorial Space and Transportation Coordinated Development)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,985 Views
18 Pages

Mining Topological Dependencies of Recurrent Congestion in Road Networks

  • Nicolas Tempelmeier,
  • Udo Feuerhake,
  • Oskar Wage and
  • Elena Demidova

The discovery of spatio-temporal dependencies within urban road networks that cause Recurrent Congestion (RC) patterns is crucial for numerous real-world applications, including urban planning and the scheduling of public transportation services. Whi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Spatio-Temporal Models and Geo-Technologies)
  • Essay
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,005 Views
16 Pages

22 October 2022

The interaction among social economy, geography, and environment leads to the occurrence of traffic accidents, which shows the relationship between time and space. Therefore, it is necessary to study the temporal and spatial correlation and provide a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,339 Views
25 Pages

Hierarchical Dynamic Spatio-Temporal Graph Convolutional Networks with Self-Supervised Learning for Traffic Flow Forecasting

  • Siwei Wei,
  • Yanan Song,
  • Donghua Liu,
  • Sichen Shen and ,
  • Rong Gao and
  • Chunzhi Wang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

20 September 2024

It is crucial for both traffic management organisations and individual commuters to be able to forecast traffic flows accurately. Graph neural networks made great strides in this field owing to their exceptional capacity to capture spatial correlatio...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Technologies and Artificial Intelligence for Sustainable and Intelligent Transportation Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
375 Views
21 Pages

12 August 2026

Urban air pollution remains a major public health concern, with road traffic representing one of the dominant sources of particulate matter and volatile organic compounds in growing cities. This study evaluates the level of chemical air pollution in...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Urban Air Quality Monitoring: From High-Resolution Sensors to Source Apportionment)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,426 Views
16 Pages

Traffic–Tourism Spatial Interaction of Lai-Qu Expressway Based on the Traffic Flow Data

  • Yujian Gao,
  • Long Bai,
  • Shengqiang Liu,
  • Hongjuan Zheng and ,
  • Jie Liu,
  • Jinxiang Cheng,
  • Haiyuan Yao and
  • Qing Zhao
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

3 June 2025

In the Taihang Mountain Tourism Development Plan (2020–2035), the Taihang Mountain Expressway is included in the construction of the National Tourism Scenic Road around Taihang Mountain to promote the integrated development of regional transpor...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Territorial Space and Transportation Coordinated Development)
  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
5,250 Views
16 Pages

17 February 2020

Individual mobility patterns are an important factor in urban traffic planning and traffic flow forecasting. How to understand the spatio-temporal distribution of passengers deeply and accurately, so as to provide theoretical support for the planning...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Transportation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
799 Views
21 Pages

13 March 2026

Nitrogen dioxide (NO2) is a short-lived atmospheric pollutant primarily emitted by road traffic, maritime shipping, and industrial combustion. It is a key indicator of anthropogenic air pollution due to its harmful health effects, its role in the for...

(This article belongs to the Section Air, Climate Change and Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,765 Views
14 Pages

A Proxy Model for Traffic Related Air Pollution Indicators Based on Traffic Count

  • Nikolina Račić,
  • Valentino Petrić,
  • Francesco Mureddu,
  • Harri Portin and ,
  • Jarkko V. Niemi,
  • Tareq Hussein and
  • Mario Lovrić
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

Understanding how traffic contributes to air pollution, especially in urban areas, is essential for designing effective strategies to reduce air pollution emissions. This study examines the hourly association between traffic volume and concentrations...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Feature Papers in Atmospheric Techniques, Instruments, and Modeling)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,858 Views
13 Pages

Traffic speed prediction is an essential part of urban transportation systems that contributes to minimizing the environmental pollution caused by vehicle emissions. The existing traffic speed prediction studies have achieved good results, but some c...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Emerging Transportation Solutions for Safer and Greener Future Mobility)
  • Article
  • Open Access
58 Citations
7,431 Views
16 Pages

Multitask Learning and GCN-Based Taxi Demand Prediction for a Traffic Road Network

  • Zhe Chen,
  • Bin Zhao,
  • Yuehan Wang,
  • Zongtao Duan and
  • Xin Zhao

5 July 2020

The accurate forecasting of urban taxi demands, which is a hot topic in intelligent transportation research, is challenging due to the complicated spatial-temporal dependencies, the dynamic nature, and the uncertainty of traffic. To make full use of...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Intelligent Sensors for Smart City)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,091 Views
15 Pages

9 June 2023

Traffic congestion is a critical problem in urban areas, and understanding the relationship between land use and congestion source is crucial for traffic management and urban planning. This study investigates the relationship between land-use charact...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Transportation)

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