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Traffic Flow Theory for Waterway Traffic: Current Challenges and Countermeasures

  • Siqing Zhuang,
  • Yihua Liu,
  • Weihao Wang,
  • Shaojie Guo and
  • Daiheng Ni

8 December 2024

Researchers are increasingly turning to roadway traffic flow theory to propose effective solutions for challenges such as traffic congestion and low efficiency in waterway transportation. However, since roadway traffic flow theory was originally deve...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1 Citations
729 Views
6 Pages

Traffic Flow Model for Coordinated Traffic Light Systems

  • Iliyan Andreev,
  • Durhan Saliev and
  • Iliyan Damyanov

Traffic in large cities is increasing due to continuous urbanization, the construction of new housing complexes and the accompanying new street network. The growth of cities creates prerequisites for increasing the intensity of transport, pedestrian,...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
9,759 Views
19 Pages

23 October 2021

The fundamental relationship of traffic flow and bivariate relations between speed and flow, speed and density, and flow and density are of great importance in transportation engineering. Fundamental relationship models may be applied to assess and f...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,843 Views
21 Pages

26 July 2021

Present experience shows that it is impossible to solve the problem of traffic congestion without intelligent transport systems. Traffic management in many cities uses the data of detectors installed at controlled intersections. Further, to assess th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
73 Citations
10,407 Views
15 Pages

24 December 2019

As traffic congestion in cities becomes serious, intelligent traffic signal control has been actively studied. Deep Q-Network (DQN), a representative deep reinforcement learning algorithm, is applied to various domains from fully-observable game envi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
5,622 Views
19 Pages

Macroscopic Traffic-Flow Modelling Based on Gap-Filling Behavior of Heterogeneous Traffic

  • Muhammad Umair Khan,
  • Salman Saeed,
  • Moncef L. Nehdi and
  • Rashid Rehan

9 May 2021

Traffic-flow modelling has been of prime interest to traffic engineers and planners since the mid-20th century. Most traffic-flow models were developed for the purpose of characterizing homogeneous traffic flow. Some of these models are extended to c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
11,374 Views
13 Pages

The paper takes an analysis of traffic conditions in a developing country, namely, India. India is a country with a rapidly growing economy and a large market, and it has the second largest population in the world, which was 1.3 billion in 2018. Indi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
7,656 Views
15 Pages

11 January 2024

Autonomous vehicles have the potential to significantly improve modes of transportation, and many businesses and research facilities are developing such systems. Although there are studies on the social implementation of autonomous vehicles, these st...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
8,072 Views
23 Pages

Sustainable traffic management relies on accurate traffic flow prediction to reduce congestion, fuel consumption, and emissions and minimise the external environmental impacts of traffic operations. This study contributes to this objective by develop...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,469 Views
15 Pages

25 September 2021

Traffic speed prediction plays an important role in intelligent transportation systems, and many approaches have been proposed over recent decades. In recent years, methods using graph convolutional networks (GCNs) have been more promising, which can...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,226 Views
14 Pages

Adaptation Scheduling for Urban Traffic Lights via FNT-Based Prediction of Traffic Flow

  • Shi-Yuan Han,
  • Qi-Wei Sun,
  • Xiao-Hui Yang,
  • Rui-Zhi Han,
  • Jin Zhou and
  • Yue-Hui Chen

20 February 2022

By linking computational intelligence technology directly to urban transportation systems, a framework for scheduling traffic lights is proposed to enhance their flexibility in adaptation to traffic fluctuation. First, based on the flexible neural tr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
863 Views
14 Pages

Main roads are usually equipped with traffic flow monitoring devices in the road network to record the traffic flow data of the main roads in real time. Three complex scenarios, i.e., Y-junctions, multi-lane merging, and signalized intersections, are...

  • Article
  • Open Access
108 Citations
27,878 Views
11 Pages

Traffic Flow Prediction for Smart Traffic Lights Using Machine Learning Algorithms

  • Alfonso Navarro-Espinoza,
  • Oscar Roberto López-Bonilla,
  • Enrique Efrén García-Guerrero,
  • Esteban Tlelo-Cuautle,
  • Didier López-Mancilla,
  • Carlos Hernández-Mejía and
  • Everardo Inzunza-González

Nowadays, many cities have problems with traffic congestion at certain peak hours, which produces more pollution, noise and stress for citizens. Neural networks (NN) and machine-learning (ML) approaches are increasingly used to solve real-world probl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,363 Views
22 Pages

A Survey on Mixed Traffic Flow Characteristics in Connected Vehicle Environments

  • Xin Chang,
  • Xingjian Zhang,
  • Haichao Li,
  • Chang Wang and
  • Zhe Liu

22 June 2022

Intelligent transportation has become a hot research field in recent years The development direction of road traffic construction in the future, the relevant technologies and methods in the process of gradual promotion and application of intelligent...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,675 Views
16 Pages

17 July 2024

The advent of high-resolution minute-level traffic flow data from video surveillance on roads has opened up new opportunities for enhancing the estimation of traffic noise levels. In this study, we propose an innovative method that utilizes time seri...

  • Article
  • Open Access
658 Views
20 Pages

27 May 2025

Bicycle riding requires a high standard width and continuity of lanes, as an appropriate width directly improves the service level of the lanes. Therefore, the width of bicycle lanes should be designed considering the characteristics of the bicycle t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,625 Views
21 Pages

A Microscopic Traffic Flow Model Characterization for Weather Conditions

  • Faryal Ali,
  • Zawar Hussain Khan,
  • Khurram Shehzad Khattak and
  • Thomas Aaron Gulliver

17 December 2022

Road surfaces are affected by rain, snow, and ice, which influence traffic flow. In this paper, a microscopic traffic flow model based on weather conditions is proposed. This model characterizes traffic based on the weather severity index. The Intell...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
2,509 Views
20 Pages

To fully leverage the spatiotemporal dynamic correlations in air traffic flow and enhance the accuracy of traffic flow prediction models, thereby providing a more precise basis for perceiving congestion situations in the air route network, a study wa...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,546 Views
14 Pages

Forecasting Traffic Flow Using Machine Learning Algorithms

  • Makhamadaziz Rasulmukhamedov,
  • Timur Tashmetov and
  • Komoliddin Tashmetov

This article is dedicated to the study of traffic flow forecasting at the intersection of Bogishamol Street in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. In the context of the rapid growth of vehicular traffic and frequent congestion, developing effective forecasting mod...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,715 Views
19 Pages

20 June 2022

As the main road type in an urban traffic system, the increasingly severe congestion of the expressway restricts social and economic development. It is essential to explore the evolution law of congestion and dissipation to ensure the efficient opera...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
4,311 Views
13 Pages

Short-Term Intersection Traffic Flow Forecasting

  • Wenrui Qu,
  • Jinhong Li,
  • Lu Yang,
  • Delin Li,
  • Shasha Liu,
  • Qun Zhao and
  • Yi Qi

2 October 2020

The intersection is a bottleneck in an urban roadway network. As traffic demand increases, there is a growing congestion problem at urban intersections. Short-term traffic flow forecasting is crucial for advanced trip planning and traffic management....

  • Article
  • Open Access
47 Citations
4,983 Views
28 Pages

27 September 2021

The accurate and effective prediction of the traffic flow of vehicles plays a significant role in the construction and planning of signalized road intersections. The application of artificially intelligent predictive models in the prediction of the p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
6,785 Views
23 Pages

Traffic Inequality and Relations in Maritime Silk Road: A Network Flow Analysis

  • Naixia Mou,
  • Haonan Ren,
  • Yunhao Zheng,
  • Jinhai Chen,
  • Jiqiang Niu,
  • Tengfei Yang,
  • Lingxian Zhang and
  • Feng Liu

Maritime traffic can reflect the diverse and complex relations between countries and regions, such as economic trade and geopolitics. Based on the AIS (Automatic Identification System) trajectory data of ships, this study constructs the Maritime Silk...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
14 Citations
5,699 Views
11 Pages

For smart cities, the issue of how to solve traffic chaos has always attracted public attention. Many studies have proposed various solutions for traffic flow prediction, such as ARIMA, ANN, and SVM. With the breakthrough of deep learning technology,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,162 Views
17 Pages

21 January 2020

Short-term traffic flow forecasting is the technical basis of the intelligent transportation system (ITS). Higher precision, short-term traffic flow forecasting plays an important role in alleviating road congestion and improving traffic management e...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,434 Views
24 Pages

12 March 2024

Addressing urban traffic congestion is a pressing issue requiring efficient solutions that need to be analyzed regarding travel time and pollutant emissions. The traffic weighted multi-maps (TWM) method has been proposed as an efficient mechanism for...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
11,254 Views
15 Pages

A Queueing Model for Traffic Flow Control in the Road Intersection

  • Yona Elbaum,
  • Alexander Novoselsky and
  • Evgeny Kagan

27 October 2022

In this paper, we consider a simple road intersection with traffic light control and suggest a queueing model for the traffic flow in the intersection. The suggested model implements the well-known queue with state-dependent departure rates. Using th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,350 Views
15 Pages

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
4,765 Views
12 Pages

Carbon Emissions and Expressway Traffic Flow Patterns in China

  • Yaping Dong,
  • Jinliang Xu,
  • Xingliang Liu,
  • Chao Gao,
  • Han Ru and
  • Zhihao Duan

17 May 2019

Traffic flow patterns severely impact vehicle carbon emissions. A field test was conducted in this study to obtain fuel consumption and traffic volume data under various traffic flow patterns and to explore the relationship between traffic flow patte...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,726 Views
14 Pages

Vehicular Traffic Flow Detection and Monitoring for Implementation of Smart Traffic Light: A Case Study for Road Intersection in Limeira, Brazil

  • Talía Simões dos Santos Ximenes,
  • Antonio Carlos de Oliveira Silva,
  • Guilherme Pieretti de Martino,
  • William Machado Emiliano,
  • Mauro Menzori,
  • Yuri Alexandre Meyer and
  • Vitor Eduardo Molina Júnior

8 November 2024

This paper proposes the development of a smart traffic light prototype based on vehicular traffic flow measurement in the stretch between two avenues in the city of Limeira, SP, Brazil, focusing on the stretch towards UNICAMP’s School of Techno...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
907 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,
  • Jie Liu,
  • Jinxiang Cheng,
  • Haiyuan Yao and
  • Qing Zhao

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,261 Views
17 Pages

Modelling the Coupling Relationship between Urban Road Spatial Structure and Traffic Flow

  • Shaobo Zhou,
  • Xiaodong Zang,
  • Junheng Yang,
  • Wanying Chen,
  • Jiahao Li and
  • Shuyi Chen

17 July 2023

In order to promote the sustainable development of urban traffic systems, improve the accuracy of traffic system analysis in the urban planning stage and reduce the possibility of traffic congestion in the operation stage of road networks, the coupli...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,631 Views
12 Pages

Traffic Flow Prediction with Attention Mechanism Based on TS-NAS

  • Cai Zhao,
  • Ruijing Liu,
  • Bei Su,
  • Lei Zhao,
  • Zhiyong Han and
  • Wen Zheng

27 September 2022

The prediction of traffic flow is of great significance in the traffic field. However, because of the high uncertainty and complexity of traffic data, it is challenging that doing traffic flow prediction. Most of the existing methods have achieved go...

  • Article
  • Open Access
80 Citations
5,077 Views
9 Pages

An Efficient Computational Technique for Fractal Vehicular Traffic Flow

  • Devendra Kumar,
  • Fairouz Tchier,
  • Jagdev Singh and
  • Dumitru Baleanu

9 April 2018

In this work, we examine a fractal vehicular traffic flow problem. The partial differential equations describing a fractal vehicular traffic flow are solved with the aid of the local fractional homotopy perturbation Sumudu transform scheme and the lo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,690 Views
22 Pages

10 December 2018

Overloaded heavy vehicles (HVs) have significant negative impacts on traffic conditions due to their inferior driving performance. Highway authorities need to understand the impact of overloaded HVs to assess traffic conditions and set management str...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,136 Views
18 Pages

22 November 2023

Recently, traffic flow prediction has gained popularity in the implementation of intelligent transportation systems. Most of the existing models for traffic flow prediction focus on increasing the prediction performance and providing fast predictions...

  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
5,195 Views
13 Pages

TrafficWave: Generative Deep Learning Architecture for Vehicular Traffic Flow Prediction

  • Donato Impedovo,
  • Vincenzo Dentamaro,
  • Giuseppe Pirlo and
  • Lucia Sarcinella

14 December 2019

Vehicular traffic flow prediction for a specific day of the week in a specific time span is valuable information. Local police can use this information to preventively control the traffic in more critical areas and improve the viability by decreasing...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,572 Views
12 Pages

20 October 2022

With the development of intelligent connected vehicles (ICVs) and communication technology, collaborative operation among vehicles will become the trend of the future. Thus, traffic flow will be mixed with manual driving vehicles and ICVs. A mixed tr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,233 Views
13 Pages

Research on Traffic Flow Prediction at Intersections Based on DT-TCN-Attention

  • Yulin Zhang,
  • Ke Shang,
  • Zhiwei Cui,
  • Zihan Zhang and
  • Feizhou Zhang

26 July 2023

Traditional nonintelligent signal control systems are typically used in road traffic signal systems, which cannot provide optimal guidance and have low traffic efficiency during rush hour. This study proposes a traffic signal phase dynamic timing opt...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
1,981 Views
25 Pages

Investigating Traffic Characteristics at Freeway Merging Areas in Heterogeneous Mixed-Flow Environments

  • Shubo Wu,
  • Yajie Zou,
  • Danyang Liu,
  • Xinqiang Chen,
  • Yinsong Wang and
  • Amin Moeinaddini

5 March 2025

The rapid development of Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CAVs) presents challenges in managing mixed traffic flows. Previous studies have primarily focused on mixed traffic flow involving CAVs and Human-Driven Vehicles (HDVs), or on the combinatio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
6,006 Views
15 Pages

29 June 2019

Speed dispersion is an important indicator to portray the quality of traffic flow and is closely related to the road safety operation level. In order to clarify the influence of posted speed limits on the dispersion of traffic flow speed, three secti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
5,460 Views
19 Pages

4 January 2023

An improved cellular automata model (CA model) considering driving styles is proposed to analyze traffic flow characteristics and study traffic congestion’s dissipation mechanism. The data were taken from a particular case in the Next Generatio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
175 Citations
11,561 Views
16 Pages

4 July 2019

Smart cities can effectively improve the quality of urban life. Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) is an important part of smart cities. The accurate and real-time prediction of traffic flow plays an important role in ITSs. To improve the predic...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
8,561 Views
20 Pages

Urban Traffic Flow Congestion Prediction Based on a Data-Driven Model

  • Kai Zhang,
  • Zixuan Chu,
  • Jiping Xing,
  • Honggang Zhang and
  • Qixiu Cheng

26 September 2023

Intelligent transportation systems need to realize accurate traffic congestion prediction. The spatio-temporal features of traffic flow are essential to analyze and predict congestion. Our study proposes a data-driven model to predict the traffic con...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,357 Views
27 Pages

Traffic congestion has increased significantly in today’s rapidly urbanizing world, influencing people’s daily lives. Traffic signal control systems (TSCSs) play an important role in alleviating congestion by optimizing traffic light timi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
5,018 Views
20 Pages

28 April 2022

CO2 emissions from burning fossil fuels make a relevant contribution to atmospheric changes and climate disruptions. In cities, the contribution by traffic of CO2 is very relevant, and the general CO2 estimation can be computed (i) on the basis of th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,909 Views
22 Pages

4 August 2023

Analysis of traffic flow signals plays an important role in traffic prediction and management. As an intrinsic property, the singular point of a traffic flow signal labels a new nonsteady status. Therefore, detecting the singular point is an effectiv...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,153 Views
25 Pages

8 January 2024

Since the inception of the traffic flow theory, numerous traffic flow models have been formulated by scholars in an effort to more accurately delineate the relationships between various traffic flow parameters. However, only a limited number of studi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
5,208 Views
17 Pages

Temporal-Spatial Traffic Flow Prediction Model Based on Prompt Learning

  • Siteng Cai,
  • Gang Liu,
  • Jing He,
  • Yulun Du,
  • Zhichao Si and
  • Yunhao Jiang

Traffic flow prediction is one of the most important and attractive topics in geographical information science (GIS), traffic management, and logistics. Traffic flows exhibit significant complexity and dynamics, requiring a thorough understanding of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,874 Views
25 Pages

Short-Term Traffic Flow Forecasting Based on a Novel Combined Model

  • Lu Liu,
  • Caihong Li,
  • Yi Yang and
  • Jianzhou Wang

22 November 2024

To improve the forecasting accuracy of traffic flow, this paper proposes a traffic flow forecasting algorithm based on Principal Component Analysis (PCA) and Complete Ensemble Empirical Mode Decomposition with Adaptive Noise (CEEMDAN) for data proces...

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