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5 Citations
2,490 Views
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18 February 2024

With the increasing number of urban vehicles, as well as the current situation of non-intelligent traffic control systems, spatiotemporal non-uniform traffic resource occupation, and limited traffic planning and design, existing urban traffic plannin...

(This article belongs to the Section Vehicular Sensing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,587 Views
15 Pages

Traffic Planning as a Preliminary Tool in Project Documentation for BIM

  • Tibor Schlosser,
  • Peter Schlosser,
  • Andrea Zuzulová,
  • Silvia Cápayová and
  • Gabriel Bálint

The paper presents a view on the possibilities of using big data in traffic planning and traffic engineering, which are used in the urban and spatial planning of cities. The question is whether the method of this design activity—especially in f...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Application Research of GIS and BIM Integration in Urban Building Planning)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
6,377 Views
24 Pages

9 October 2015

Autonomous vehicles operate in real time traffic scenarios and aim to reach their destination from their source in the most efficient manner possible. Research in mobile robotics provides a variety of sophisticated means with which to plan the path o...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Intelligent and Cooperative Vehicles)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,895 Views
26 Pages

Combining Traffic Microsimulation Modeling and Multi-Criteria Analysis for Sustainable Spatial-Traffic Planning

  • Irena Ištoka Otković,
  • Barbara Karleuša,
  • Aleksandra Deluka-Tibljaš,
  • Sanja Šurdonja and
  • Mario Marušić

24 June 2021

Spatial and traffic planning is important in order to achieve a quality, safe, functional, and integrated urban environment. Different tools and expert models were developed that are aimed at a more objective view of the consequences of reconstructio...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Progress in Urbanisation Dynamics Research)
  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
5,875 Views
18 Pages

30 December 2020

Traffic congestion is becoming a critical problem in urban traffic planning. Intelligent transportation systems can help expand the capacity of urban roads to alleviate traffic congestion. As a key concept in intelligent transportation systems, urban...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Big Data in a Sustainable Smart City)
  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
8,905 Views
36 Pages

Bicycle Traffic Model for Sustainable Urban Mobility Planning

  • Jacek Oskarbski,
  • Krystian Birr and
  • Karol Żarski

20 September 2021

Modelling tools and transport models are required to assess the impact of measures for the effective planning of cycling routes in cities. This paper presents the methodology for developing a four-stage macroscopic model of bicycle traffic for the ci...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Perspectives and Challenges in Traffic and Transportation Engineering Supporting Energy Saving in Smart Cities)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
7,277 Views
22 Pages

9 September 2020

The integral indexes are used to measure trends and monitor progress in transportation complex development. The selection of the indicators, included in indexes, is related to the data availability (depends on existence of a specific data sources). T...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Transport Systems for Sustainability: Policy, Planning and Exploitation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2,631 Views
21 Pages

2 February 2024

Unconventional events exacerbate the imbalance between regional transportation demand and limited road network resources. Scientific and efficient path planning serves as the foundation for rapidly restoring equilibrium to the road network. In real l...

(This article belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,421 Views
16 Pages

9 August 2021

An environmentally and economically sustainable air traffic management system must rely on fast models to assess and compare various alternatives and decisions at the different flight planning levels. Due to the numerous interactions between flights,...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Future of Sustainable Mobility Air Transport Systems: Challenges and Approaches)
  • Review
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,003 Views
29 Pages

A Review of Dynamic Traffic Flow Prediction Methods for Global Energy-Efficient Route Planning

  • Pengyang Qi,
  • Chaofeng Pan,
  • Xing Xu,
  • Jian Wang,
  • Jun Liang and
  • Weiqi Zhou

5 September 2025

Urbanization and traffic congestion caused by the surge in car ownership have exacerbated energy consumption and carbon emissions, and dynamic traffic flow prediction and energy-saving route planning have become the key to solving this problem. Dynam...

(This article belongs to the Section Vehicular Sensing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
792 Views
23 Pages

8 November 2025

Detailed planning of vessel traffic on the fairway, carried out by Vessel Traffic Service (VTS) operators, is a complicated task, especially when there are restrictions for two-way ship traffic. Such restrictions take place on the dredged Świnou...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Risk and Safety of Maritime Transportation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,391 Views
26 Pages

22 November 2023

This paper explores the use of deep reinforcement learning in solving the multi-agent aircraft traffic planning (individual paths) and collision avoidance problem for a multiple UAS, such as that for a cargo drone network. Specifically, the Deep Q-Ne...

(This article belongs to the Collection Air Transportation—Operations and Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,719 Views
28 Pages

22 February 2025

Path planning for intelligent semi-trailers encounters numerous challenges in complex traffic conditions. Serious consequences, such as vehicle rollover, may occur when the traffic conditions change. Therefore, it is vital to consider both the surrou...

(This article belongs to the Section Transportation and Future Mobility)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,665 Views
28 Pages

Integrating autonomous vehicles (AVs) into urban traffic systems presents significant opportunities for optimizing traffic flow, reducing congestion, and enhancing transportation efficiency. This study proposes a comprehensive framework that combines...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advancements in Autonomous Vehicles: Security, Optimization and Future Challenges)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,156 Views
31 Pages

Effective and sustainable planning for future smart transportation systems is hindered by outdated traffic management models that fail to capture real-world dynamics, leading to congestion and significant environmental impact. To address this, advanc...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Machine Learning for Sustainable Planning and Modelling in Future Smart Transportation System)
  • Article
  • Open Access
42 Citations
6,314 Views
15 Pages

5 December 2018

Vehicle driving path planning is an important information service in intelligent transportation systems. As an important basis for path planning optimization, the travel time prediction method has attracted much attention. However, traffic flow has f...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances on Vehicular Networks: From Sensing to Autonomous Driving)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,934 Views
13 Pages

20 December 2022

Measuring the impact of bicycle infrastructure and other mobility improvements has been a challenge in the practice of transportation planning. Transportation planners are increasingly required to conduct complex analyses to provide supporting eviden...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Frontiers in Urban Mobility)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,508 Views
17 Pages

The accelerating pace of urbanization has significantly complicated traffic management systems, leading to mounting challenges, such as persistent congestion, increased travel delays, and heightened environmental impacts. In response to these challen...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,055 Views
23 Pages

Controllable Queuing System with Elastic Traffic and Signals for Resource Capacity Planning in 5G Network Slicing

  • Irina Kochetkova,
  • Kseniia Leonteva,
  • Ibram Ghebrial,
  • Anastasiya Vlaskina,
  • Sofia Burtseva,
  • Anna Kushchazli and
  • Konstantin Samouylov

31 December 2023

Fifth-generation (5G) networks provide network slicing capabilities, enabling the deployment of multiple logically isolated network slices on a single infrastructure platform to meet specific requirements of users. This paper focuses on modeling and...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Performance and QoS Issues of 5G Wireless Networks and Beyond)
  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
3,879 Views
18 Pages

7 September 2021

The issues addressed by the article concern the assessment of energy efficiency in rail transport, resulting from the proper organization of rail traffic. The problems related to energy consumption and, thus, the negative impact of rail transport on...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Design, Modeling and Analysis of Electrified and Sustainable Transport Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,138 Views
33 Pages

27 February 2025

Today’s airport passenger terminals are required to be planned and designed to ensure flexibility for future adjustments at minimal cost, but also to respond to changes in demand and/or needs of passengers, airlines, and aircraft. To achieve th...

(This article belongs to the Section Transportation and Future Mobility)
  • Article
  • Open Access
380 Views
48 Pages

Multi-UAV cooperative path planning is an important technical basis for improving offshore emergency response efficiency in complex maritime environments. However, in complex offshore environments, cooperative trajectory planning is affected not only...

(This article belongs to the Section Ocean Engineering)
  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,508 Views
11 Pages

Traffic incidents usually have negative effects on transportation systems such as delays and traffic jams. Therefore, a traffic incident response plan can guide management actors and operators to take action effectively and timely after traffic incid...

(This article belongs to the Proceedings of The 9th International Conference on Time Series and Forecasting)
  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
6,261 Views
20 Pages

2 October 2020

Negative impacts of motor vehicle traffic in cities are still increasing despite the objectives that sustainable mobility paradigm put forward almost three decades ago. Measures to reduce them still primarily focus on traffic safety improvements thro...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue SUMP for Cities’ Sustainable Development)
  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
9,769 Views
17 Pages

Intelligent Planning and Research on Urban Traffic Congestion

  • Qigang Zhu,
  • Yifan Liu,
  • Ming Liu,
  • Shuaishuai Zhang,
  • Guangyang Chen and
  • Hao Meng

8 November 2021

For large and medium-sized cities, the planning and development of urban road networks may not keep pace with the growth of urban vehicles, resulting in traffic congestion on urban roads during peak hours. Take Jinan, a mid-sized city in China’s Shan...

(This article belongs to the Section Smart System Infrastructure and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,539 Views
36 Pages

Ensuring safety and preventing accidents in waterway channels are critical challenges for networked marine surface vessel systems (NMSVs). This study introduces a regulation-aware decision-making system designed to minimize traffic conflicts and enha...

(This article belongs to the Section Ocean Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,310 Views
24 Pages

4 March 2026

The Vehicle Routing Problems with Time Windows (VRPTW) has remained a classic and continuously studied problem since its introduction. With the rapid growth of cold chain product distribution demands, VRP research has become increasingly important fo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
6,106 Views
14 Pages

This paper investigates the integration of traffic information (TI) into the routing in the presence of moving obstacles. When traffic accidents occur, the incidents could generate different kinds of hazards (e.g., toxic plumes), which make certain p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,287 Views
23 Pages

15 January 2026

In the situation of shifting urban residential needs in China, existing studies overlook both interior space redesign of ordinary apartments and the integration methodology of space syntax and artificial intelligence in this domain. This study aims t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Cutting-Edge Research on Smart, Sustainable, and Resilient Buildings and Cities)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
7,443 Views
12 Pages

Route Planning for Autonomous Driving Based on Traffic Information via Multi-Objective Optimization

  • Meng-Yue Zhang,
  • Shi-Chun Yang,
  • Xin-Jie Feng,
  • Yu-Yi Chen,
  • Jia-Yi Lu and
  • Yao-Guang Cao

21 November 2022

Route planning for autonomous driving is a global road planning method based on a given starting point and target point combined with current traffic flow information. The optimal global route can reduce traffic jams and improve the safety and econom...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Real-Time Systems and Industrial Internet of Things)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,512 Views
14 Pages

20 September 2019

Battery-powered electric vehicles (EVs) have a limited on-board energy storage and present the problem of driving mileage anxiety. Moreover, battery energy storage density cannot be effectively improved in a short time, which is a technical bottlenec...

(This article belongs to the Section E: Electric Vehicles)
  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
10,806 Views
22 Pages

A Motion Planning Method for Automated Vehicles in Dynamic Traffic Scenarios

  • Bo Peng,
  • Dexin Yu,
  • Huxing Zhou,
  • Xue Xiao and
  • Chen Xie

21 January 2022

We propose a motion planning method for automated vehicles (AVs) to complete driving tasks in dynamic traffic scenes. The proposed method aims to generate motion trajectories for an AV after obtaining the surrounding dynamic information and making a...

(This article belongs to the Section F: Engineering and Materials)
  • Article
  • Open Access
59 Citations
5,925 Views
19 Pages

The influence of the maritime environment such as water currents, water depth, and traffic separation rules should be considered when conducting ship path planning. Additionally, the maneuverability constraints of the ship play a crucial role in navi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Application of Artificial Intelligence in Maritime Transportation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
182 Citations
11,888 Views
17 Pages

13 March 2019

A traditional A-Star (A*) algorithm generates an optimal path by minimizing the path cost. For a vessel, factors of path length, obstacle collision risk, traffic separation rule and manoeuvrability restriction should be all taken into account for pat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,757 Views
23 Pages

Creating and Validating Hybrid Large-Scale, Multi-Modal Traffic Simulations for Efficient Transport Planning

  • Fabian Schuhmann,
  • Ngoc An Nguyen,
  • Jörg Schweizer,
  • Wei-Chieh Huang and
  • Markus Lienkamp

Mobility digital twins (MDTs), which utilize multi-modal microscopic (micro) traffic simulations and an activity-based demand generation, are envisioned as flexible and reliable planning tools for addressing today’s increasingly complex and div...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Cost-Effective Transportation Planning for Smart Cities)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,394 Views
23 Pages

10 July 2024

This study explores the integration of dynamic vehicle trajectories, vehicle safety factors, static traffic environments, and actuator constraints to improve cooperative intent modeling for autonomous vehicles (AVs) navigating uncertain traffic scena...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Actuator Fault Diagnosis, State Detection and Fault Tolerant Control for Ground and Rail Vehicles)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,308 Views
17 Pages

14 November 2022

For the last two decades, autonomous vehicles have been proposed and developed to extend the operational design domain from the motorway to urban environments. However, there have been few studies on autonomous driving for uncontrolled and blind inte...

(This article belongs to the Section Transportation and Future Mobility)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,000 Views
21 Pages

26 February 2026

The rapid growth of vehicle ownership has led to increasingly congested road networks, which significantly reduces the energy efficiency of electric vehicles (EVs) and intensifies user range anxiety. To address these challenges, a dynamic EV route pl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
5,010 Views
19 Pages

26 September 2022

Autonomous driving technology in urban environments is a very important avenue of research. Notably, the question of how to plan safe lane-changing trajectories is a challenge in multi-vehicle traffic environments. In our research, three kinds of pol...

(This article belongs to the Section Transportation and Future Mobility)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,534 Views
12 Pages

8 November 2021

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) are widely used in disaster relief and road exploration in recent years. This paper mainly studied the emergency response of UAVs after disasters. The UAV response system is mainly suitable for the distribution of neces...

(This article belongs to the Section Earth Sciences)
  • Article
  • Open Access
48 Citations
10,149 Views
14 Pages

3 October 2022

Adaptive traffic signal control (ATSC) is an effective method to reduce traffic congestion in modern urban areas. Many studies adopted various approaches to adjust traffic signal plans according to real-time traffic in response to demand fluctuations...

(This article belongs to the Section Internet of Things)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,617 Views
22 Pages

29 November 2024

To tackle the energy-saving optimization issue of plug-in hybrid electric trucks traversing multiple traffic light intersections continuously, this paper presents a double-layer energy management strategy that utilizes the dynamic programming–t...

(This article belongs to the Section F: Electrical Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
558 Views
20 Pages

19 March 2026

Sustainable urban development increasingly depends on understanding how digital activity is distributed across space and time, yet the spatiotemporal dynamics of the urban digital landscape remain poorly mapped by conventional data sources. This stud...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,487 Views
19 Pages

28 September 2022

In complex driving scenarios, automated vehicles should behave reasonably and respond adaptively with high computational efficiency. In this paper, a computational efficient motion planning method is proposed, which considers traffic interaction and...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Sensing and Safety Control for Connected and Automated Vehicles)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,761 Views
26 Pages

Towards Deriving Freight Traffic Measures from Truck Movement Data for State Road Planning: A Proposed System Framework

  • Ahmed Karam,
  • Thorbjørn M. Illemann,
  • Kristian Hegner Reinau,
  • Goran Vuk and
  • Christian O. Hansen

To make the right decisions on investments, operations, and policies in the public road sector, decision makers need knowledge about traffic measures of trucks, such as average travel time and the frequency of trips among geographical zones. Private...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Trends in Location Based Services and Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,052 Views
30 Pages

29 October 2024

Unmanned Surface Vehicles (USVs) operating in complex traffic conditions in island reef waters often require different types of algorithms. Therefore, selecting a dynamic path-planning algorithm with strong adaptability has become a new challenge. Th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
551 Views
37 Pages

10 March 2026

To address the challenges of facility–demand mismatch, aggravated congestion, and imbalanced benefit distribution caused by the interdependence between dynamic wireless charging systems (DWCS) and transportation networks, this study proposes an...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Grid-to-Vehicle (G2V) and Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) Technologies)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2,106 Views
14 Pages

Extraction of Geolocations from Site Maps in the Context of Traffic Counting

  • Johannes Schering,
  • Pascal Säfken and
  • Jorge Marx Gómez

29 May 2024

The further promotion of cycling is a key component for each city to reach its sustainability goals. To make decisions to improve comfort or safety for cyclists, the amount of motorized traffic should be taken into account. Therefore, traffic data pl...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Smart Cities: IoT and Sustainability as Drivers for Future Developments)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,586 Views
18 Pages

22 October 2022

Most existing path-planning algorithms are applied in either trafficable environments or non-trafficable environments. Off-road vehicles (ORVs) are often faced with a mix of trafficable and non-trafficable environments. Therefore, trafficability shou...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,913 Views
14 Pages

Understanding Complex Traffic Dynamics with the Nondimensionalisation Technique

  • Juan Francisco Sánchez-Pérez,
  • Santiago Oviedo-Casado,
  • Gonzalo García-Ros,
  • Manuel Conesa and
  • Enrique Castro

8 February 2024

Hydrodynamic traffic models are crucial to optimizing transportation efficiency and urban planning. They usually comprise a set of coupled partial differential equations featuring an arbitrary number of terms that aim to describe the different nuance...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Mathematical Modelling, Nonlinear Optimization, Nondimensionalization and Engineering Applications)

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