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  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,580 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
115 Citations
6,868 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...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
9,283 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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,246 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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,543 Views
18 Pages

30 December 2024

Signal retiming is the most cost-efficient measure to reduce vehicle delay and alleviate congestion on urban roads. Previous studies have explored the potential of using connected vehicle data for signal retiming specifically under the current low-pe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
5,341 Views
25 Pages

23 February 2021

In smart cities, it is expected that transport, communication as well as the movement of people and goods will take place in the shortest possible time while maintaining a high level of safety. In recent years, due to the significant increase in the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,728 Views
13 Pages

13 December 2024

With the development of Internet of Vehicles (IoV) technology, the need for real-time data processing and communication in vehicles is increasing. Traditional request-based methods face challenges in terms of latency and bandwidth limitations. Mode 4...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,606 Views
14 Pages

27 March 2023

Automated vehicles are expected to greatly boost traffic efficiency. However, how to estimate traffic breakdown probability for the mixed flow of autonomous vehicles and human driven vehicles around ramping areas remains to be answered. In this paper...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
5,463 Views
17 Pages

13 March 2019

The Internet of Vehicles (IoV) is attracting many researchers with the emergence of autonomous or smart vehicles. Vehicles on the road are becoming smart objects equipped with lots of sensors and powerful computing and communication capabilities. In...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,430 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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
4,939 Views
18 Pages

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
9,400 Views
32 Pages

Traffic Signal Control System Based on Intelligent Transportation System and Reinforcement Learning

  • Julián Hurtado-Gómez,
  • Juan David Romo,
  • Ricardo Salazar-Cabrera,
  • Álvaro Pachón de la Cruz and
  • Juan Manuel Madrid Molina

28 September 2021

Traffic congestion has several causes, including insufficient road capacity, unrestricted demand and improper scheduling of traffic signal phases. A great variety of efforts have been made to properly program such phases. Some of them are based on tr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
3,651 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
6 Citations
3,267 Views
37 Pages

6 December 2019

Fatigue assessments of bridges depend on vehicle interactions, occurring when several vehicles travel simultaneously on the bridge or when two individual stress histories, caused by vehicles traveling in different times, generate a more damaging comb...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,583 Views
17 Pages

23 December 2022

A pick-up zone links a hub of inter-city transportation (e.g., airplane and rail, etc.) with a connected roadway belonging to the city road network. Passengers depart through the pick-up zone and the interactions between passengers and vehicles lead...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,954 Views
20 Pages

2 April 2020

Establishing electric vehicle supply equipment (EVSE) to keep up with the increasing number of electric vehicles (EVs) is the most realistic and direct means of promoting their spread. Using traffic data collected in one area; we estimated the EV cha...

  • Article
  • Open Access
50 Citations
6,475 Views
18 Pages

28 May 2021

Sufficient and convenient fast-charging facilities are crucial for the effective integration of electric vehicles. To construct enough fast electric vehicle-charging stations, station owners need to earn a reasonable profit. This paper proposed an op...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,114 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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,505 Views
16 Pages

With the government’s strong promotion of the transformation of new and old driving forces, the electrification of buses has developed rapidly. In order to improve resource utilization, many cities have decided to open bus charging stations (CS...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,492 Views
27 Pages

Integration of Visible Light Communication, Artificial Intelligence, and Rerouting Strategies for Enhanced Urban Traffic Management

  • Manuela Vieira,
  • Gonçalo Galvão,
  • Manuel A. Vieira,
  • Mário Véstias,
  • Pedro Vieira and
  • Paula Louro

11 December 2024

This study combines Visible Light Communication (VLC) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) to enhance traffic signal control, reduce congestion, and improve safety, through real-time monitoring and dynamic traffic management. Leveraging VLC technology, t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,464 Views
13 Pages

12 October 2019

Although electric vehicles (EVs) have been regarded as promising to reduce tailpipe emissions and energy consumption, a mixed traffic flow of EVs and internal combustion engine vehicles (ICEVs) makes the energy/emissions reduction objective more diff...

  • Article
  • Open Access
84 Citations
21,497 Views
21 Pages

Artificial Intelligence-Enabled Traffic Monitoring System

  • Vishal Mandal,
  • Abdul Rashid Mussah,
  • Peng Jin and
  • Yaw Adu-Gyamfi

4 November 2020

Manual traffic surveillance can be a daunting task as Traffic Management Centers operate a myriad of cameras installed over a network. Injecting some level of automation could help lighten the workload of human operators performing manual surveillanc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,244 Views
30 Pages

19 August 2023

This paper proposes a new approach to assessing the impact of changes in the traffic flow on pollutant emissions and the traffic capacity of signal-controlled intersections. We present an intelligent vision system tailored to monitor the traffic beha...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
7,181 Views
11 Pages

Today, smart cities are turning to electric transport, carpooling and zero emission zones. The growing number of electric vehicles on the roads makes it increasingly necessary to have a public charging infrastructure. On the other hand, the main limi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,346 Views
19 Pages

20 February 2025

Route planning for electric vehicles (EVs) is a critical challenge in sustainable transportation, as it directly addresses concerns about greenhouse gas emissions and energy efficiency. This study presents a novel approach that combines K-means clust...

  • Article
  • Open Access
197 Views
30 Pages

15 January 2026

The rapid increase in electric vehicle (EV) ownership necessitates the adaptation of fuel stations to charging infrastructure and the re-evaluation of capacity planning. In the literature, demand forecasting and installation costs are mostly examined...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,103 Views
24 Pages

19 August 2025

In complex urban wireless environments, unmanned aerial vehicle–mobile edge computing (UAV-MEC) systems face challenges like link blockage and single-antenna eavesdropping threats. The traditional single reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,024 Views
24 Pages

6 July 2022

We propose a thread-based modeling and analysis method for a vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communication device, according to the performance requirements of the V2X application. For a developer to develop a V2X device or application, its performance r...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,657 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,
  • Herman Yoseph Sutarto,
  • Yosi Agustina Hidayat and
  • Endra Joelianto

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,032 Views
21 Pages

14 August 2024

To quantify the travel time and cost characteristics of mixed traffic involving electric vehicles (EVs) and fuel-powered vehicles on roads, in this paper, we comprehensively consider three factors affecting road impedance: queue length, waiting time,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,948 Views
26 Pages

14 March 2025

In urban environments, the highly complex communication environment often leads to blockages in the link between ground users (GUs) and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), resulting in poor communication quality. Although traditional reconfigurable inte...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,451 Views
16 Pages

Assuming a full market penetration rate of connected and autonomous vehicles (CAVs) would provide an opportunity to remove costly and inefficient traffic lights from intersections, this paper presents a signal-free intersection control system relying...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,677 Views
16 Pages

22 October 2025

We present the ML-CALMO framework, which integrates machine learning with queueing theory for last-mile delivery optimization under dynamic conditions. The system combines Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) demand forecasting, Convolutional Neural Network...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
4,019 Views
22 Pages

Forecasting the Passage Time of the Queue of Highly Automated Vehicles Based on Neural Networks in the Services of Cooperative Intelligent Transport Systems

  • Vladimir Shepelev,
  • Sultan Zhankaziev,
  • Sergey Aliukov,
  • Vitalii Varkentin,
  • Aleksandr Marusin,
  • Alexey Marusin and
  • Aleksandr Gritsenko

17 January 2022

This study addresses the problem of non-stop passage by vehicles at intersections based on special processing of data from a road camera or video detector. The basic task in this article is formulated as a forecast for the release time of a controlle...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,515 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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,721 Views
19 Pages

14 January 2024

Automated guided vehicles (AGVs) stand out as a paradigmatic application of Industry 4.0, requiring the seamless integration of new concepts and technologies to enhance productivity while reducing labor costs, energy consumption, and emissions. In th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,344 Views
13 Pages

Vehicular Traffic Flow Analysis and Minimize the Vehicle Queue Waiting Time Using Signal Distribution Control Algorithm

  • Srinivasagam Solaiappan,
  • Bharathi Ramesh Kumar,
  • N. Anbazhagan,
  • Yooseung Song,
  • Gyanendra Prasad Joshi and
  • Woong Cho

31 July 2023

The real-time vehicular traffic system is an integral part of the urban vehicular traffic system, which provides effective traffic signal control for a large multifaceted traffic network and is a highly challenging distributed control problem. Coordi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,829 Views
21 Pages

23 August 2023

With the continuous advancements in electrification, connectivity, and intelligence in the automotive industry, the mixed traffic of vehicles with different levels of driving automation is changing the carbon emission characteristics in the impact ar...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,736 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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
6,416 Views
18 Pages

A Study on Price-Based Charging Strategy for Electric Vehicles on Expressways

  • Lixing Chen,
  • Zhong Chen,
  • Xueliang Huang and
  • Long Jin

19 May 2016

With the large-scale adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) on expressways, the exploration of a guiding-based charging method to effectively adjust interactions between EVs and the fast charging stations (CSs) is urgently needed. This paper proposes a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,918 Views
13 Pages

22 July 2022

How to sustainably conduct intersection operations is a key issue of the current research. For an actuated control intersection, queued vehicles, control parameters, and phase schemes all affect the operation effect. This paper discusses queued vehic...

  • Article
  • Open Access
373 Views
22 Pages

29 November 2025

The deployment of electric trucks is recognized as a crucial tool for reducing dependence on traditional fossil fuels and mitigating pollution from transportation systems. However, insufficient and unbalanced distribution of charging stations may hin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,262 Views
14 Pages

20 March 2023

The mathematical study known as queueing theory has recently become a major point of interest for many government agencies and private companies for increasing efficiency. One such application is vehicle queueing at an international port-of-entry (PO...

  • Article
  • Open Access
106 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,
  • Wenjuan E,
  • Xingxing Jiang,
  • Yang Xiao,
  • Yuxin Zhang and
  • Tieshan Li

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...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
8,487 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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,086 Views
17 Pages

29 March 2023

In Cooperative Vehicle Infrastructure System (CVIS), the roadside unit (RSU) obtains many kinds of monitoring data through observation equipment carried by the RSU. The monitoring data from RSUs are transmitted to an RSU that is connected to the back...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,233 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
2,514 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,
  • Adil Elhassan,
  • Abdullah Alshahri and
  • Caroline Mongina Matara

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
11 Citations
10,983 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
1 Citations
1,234 Views
38 Pages

24 August 2025

Coordinated adaptive signal control is a proven strategy for improving traffic efficiency and minimizing vehicular delays. First, we develop a Queue Evolution and Delay Model (QEDM) that establishes the relationship between detector-measured queue le...

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