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27 Citations
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Short-Term Traffic Flow Forecasting via Multi-Regime Modeling and Ensemble Learning

  • Zhenbo Lu,
  • Jingxin Xia,
  • Man Wang,
  • Qinghui Nie and
  • Jishun Ou

3 January 2020

Short-term traffic flow forecasting is crucial for proactive traffic management and control. One key issue associated with the task is how to properly define and capture the temporal patterns of traffic flow. A feasible solution is to design a multi-...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,644 Views
15 Pages

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

  • Agnieszka Nowy,
  • Kinga Łazuga,
  • Lucjan Gucma,
  • Andrej Androjna,
  • Marko Perkovič and
  • Jure Srše

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,645 Views
20 Pages

29 April 2025

As connected and autonomous vehicle (CAV) technologies are rapidly integrated into modern transportation systems, understanding the dynamics of mixed traffic flow involving both human-driven vehicles (HVs) and CAVs is becoming increasingly important,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
5,526 Views
18 Pages

12 May 2022

Mixed traffic composed of human-driven vehicles (HDVs) and CAVs will exist for an extended period before connected and autonomous vehicles (CAVs) are fully employed on the road. There is a consensus that dense fog can cause serious traffic accidents...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
9,631 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...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1 Citations
651 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,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
5,559 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
8 Citations
3,585 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
5 Citations
2,871 Views
25 Pages

A Density-Based and Lane-Free Microscopic Traffic Flow Model Applied to Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

  • Mirmojtaba Gharibi,
  • Zahra Gharibi,
  • Raouf Boutaba and
  • Steven L. Waslander

12 October 2021

In this work, we introduce a microscopic traffic flow model called Scalar Capacity Model (SCM) which can be used to study the formation of traffic on an airway link for autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) as well as for the ground vehicles on...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
8,474 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
27 Citations
5,388 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
1,728 Views
10 Pages

Modeling and Simulation of a Traffic Flow Model Considering the Influence of Traffic Interruption

  • Shu-Hong Yang,
  • Chui-Gui Li,
  • Dong-Xue Xia,
  • Meng Wang and
  • Xiao-Rong Wang

1 August 2013

In this paper, we present a new lattice model of traffic flow by considering the effects of traffic interruption probability. The stability condition of the proposed model is obtained by employing the linear stability theory. The results show that th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
5,115 Views
29 Pages

9 September 2021

The tremendous increase in vehicular navigation often witnessed daily has elicited constant and continuous traffic congestion at signalized road intersections. This study focuses on applying an artificial neural network trained by particle swarm opti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,827 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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,644 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
15 Citations
2,468 Views
17 Pages

SSA-ELM: A Hybrid Learning Model for Short-Term Traffic Flow Forecasting

  • Fei Wang,
  • Yinxi Liang,
  • Zhizhe Lin,
  • Jinglin Zhou and
  • Teng Zhou

19 June 2024

Nowadays, accurate and efficient short-term traffic flow forecasting plays a critical role in intelligent transportation systems (ITS). However, due to the fact that traffic flow is susceptible to factors such as weather and road conditions, traffic...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,491 Views
12 Pages

Modeling of the Relationship Between Speed Limit and Characteristic Speed of Expressway Traffic Flow

  • Jie Yang,
  • Jinliang Xu,
  • Chao Gao,
  • Guohua Bai,
  • Linfang Xie and
  • Menghui Li

26 August 2019

Understanding the relationship between speed limit and characteristic speed of expressway traffic flow is of great significance for formulating a reasonable speed limit scheme and improving highway safety and transportation efficiency. In this study,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,018 Views
21 Pages

15 October 2025

The introduction of Maritime Autonomous Surface Ships (MASS) and the accelerating digitalization of ports require precise and dynamic analysis of traffic conditions. However, conventional marine traffic analyses have been limited to low-resolution gr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,555 Views
14 Pages

GLSNN Network: A Multi-Scale Spatiotemporal Prediction Model for Urban Traffic Flow

  • Benhe Cai,
  • Yanhui Wang,
  • Chong Huang,
  • Jiahao Liu and
  • Wenxin Teng

17 November 2022

Traffic flow prediction is a key issue in intelligent transportation systems. The growing trend in data disclosure has created more potential sources for the input for predictive models, posing new challenges to the prediction of traffic flow in the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,176 Views
17 Pages

Cloud Model-Based Fuzzy Inference System for Short-Term Traffic Flow Prediction

  • He-Wei Liu,
  • Yi-Ting Wang,
  • Xiao-Kang Wang,
  • Ye Liu,
  • Yan Liu,
  • Xue-Yang Zhang and
  • Fei Xiao

30 May 2023

Since traffic congestion during peak hours has become the norm in daily life, research on short-term traffic flow forecasting has attracted widespread attention that can alleviate urban traffic congestion. However, the existing research ignores the u...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,189 Views
20 Pages

17 June 2025

The connected and automated vehicles (CAV) smoothing mixed traffic flow has gained attention, and a thorough assessment of these control algorithms is necessary. Our previous research proposed the time-varying model predictive control (TV-MPC) strate...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,631 Views
22 Pages

An Improved Hybrid Highway Traffic Flow Prediction Model Based on Machine Learning

  • Zhanzhong Wang,
  • Ruijuan Chu,
  • Minghang Zhang,
  • Xiaochao Wang and
  • Siliang Luan

9 October 2020

For intelligent transportation systems (ITSs), reliable and accurate real-time traffic flow prediction is an important step and a necessary prerequisite for alleviating traffic congestion and improving highway operation efficiency. In this paper, we...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
7,129 Views
22 Pages

Grey Coupled Prediction Model for Traffic Flow with Panel Data Characteristics

  • Jinwei Yang,
  • Xinping Xiao,
  • Shuhua Mao,
  • Congjun Rao and
  • Jianghui Wen

20 December 2016

This paper studies the grey coupled prediction problem of traffic data with panel data characteristics. Traffic flow data collected continuously at the same site typically has panel data characteristics. The longitudinal data (daily flow) is time-ser...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
2,597 Views
17 Pages

A Two-Stage Hybrid Extreme Learning Model for Short-Term Traffic Flow Forecasting

  • Zhihan Cui,
  • Boyu Huang,
  • Haowen Dou,
  • Yan Cheng,
  • Jitian Guan and
  • Teng Zhou

16 June 2022

Credible and accurate traffic flow forecasting is critical for deploying intelligent traffic management systems. Nevertheless, it remains challenging to develop a robust and efficient forecasting model due to the nonlinear characteristics and inheren...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
3,182 Views
19 Pages

Computational Analysis of Local Fractional LWR Model Occurring in a Fractal Vehicular Traffic Flow

  • Ved Prakash Dubey,
  • Devendra Kumar,
  • Hashim M. Alshehri,
  • Sarvesh Dubey and
  • Jagdev Singh

In this paper, we implement computational methods, namely the local fractional natural homotopy analysis method (LFNHAM) and local fractional natural decomposition method (LFNDM), to examine the solution for the local fractional Lighthill–Whith...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,103 Views
17 Pages

The Double Lanes Cell Transmission Model of Mixed Traffic Flow in Urban Intelligent Network

  • Wenjing Tian,
  • Jien Ma,
  • Lin Qiu,
  • Xiang Wang,
  • Zhenzhi Lin,
  • Chao Luo,
  • Yao Li and
  • Youtong Fang

29 March 2023

The connected and autonomous vehicle (CAV) is promised to ease congestion in the future with the rapid development of related technologies in recent years. To explore the characteristics of mixed-traffic flow and the dynamic transmission mechanism, t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,796 Views
42 Pages

28 January 2025

The information interaction characteristics of connected vehicles are distinct from those of non-connected vehicles, thereby exerting an influence on the conventional traffic flow model. The original lane-changing model for non-connected vehicles is...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,738 Views
12 Pages

10 June 2022

Based on a one-dimensional (1D) traffic flow cellular automaton (CA) FI model, a deterministic next-nearest-neighbor interaction FI model (NIFI model) is proposed. Using the mean-field analysis, the analytical solution of the NIFI model in one-dimens...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
5,670 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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,400 Views
26 Pages

31 October 2024

Traffic emissions pose a substantial challenge for contemporary societies, particularly at roundabouts, where high levels of vehicle interaction and the associated emission dynamics are prevalent. Building upon this, a cellular automata model was dev...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,265 Views
18 Pages

Given the rapid development of technologies such as new energy vehicles, autonomous driving, and vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communication, a mixed traffic flow comprising connected and autonomous vehicles (CAVs) and human-driven vehicles (HDVs) is a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
2,456 Views
19 Pages

9 August 2022

Accurate short-term traffic flow prediction is a prerequisite for achieving an intelligent transportation system to proactively alleviate traffic congestion. Considering the complex and variable traffic environment, so that the traffic flow contains...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,630 Views
22 Pages

This work proposed an integrated model combining bagging and stacking considering the weight coefficient for short-time traffic-flow prediction, which incorporates vacation and peak time features, as well as occupancy and speed information, in order...

  • Article
  • Open Access
44 Citations
5,028 Views
15 Pages

19 February 2023

In the previous research on traffic flow prediction models, most of the models mainly studied the time series of traffic flow, and the spatial correlation of traffic flow was not fully considered. To solve this problem, this paper proposes a method t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,124 Views
17 Pages

3 September 2022

Autonomous driving technology and vehicle-to-vehicle communication technology make the hybrid driving of connected and automated vehicles (CAVs) and regular vehicles (RVs) a long-existing phenomenon in the coming future. Among the existing studies, I...

  • Article
  • Open Access
772 Views
18 Pages

In the V2X environment, intelligent connected vehicles can obtain multi-dimensional traffic flow data in real time through the vehicle–road collaborative cyber–physical fusion system. Based on this, this study proposes a multi-lane traffi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
431 Views
22 Pages

5 January 2026

Traffic flow prediction is a fundamental component of intelligent transportation systems and plays a critical role in traffic management and autonomous driving. However, accurately modeling highway traffic remains challenging due to dynamic congestio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,007 Views
33 Pages

13 February 2025

Dar es Salaam Port, a crucial logistical hub in East Africa, faces significant challenges related to cargo handling efficiency, road congestion, and capacity constraints. The port’s performance is pivotal for regional trade, necessitating a com...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,438 Views
14 Pages

18 January 2023

Traffic flow characterizes vitality in commercial clusters, and the accurate prediction of traffic flow based on the street network has significant implications for street planning and vitality regulation in commercial clusters. However, existing stu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,803 Views
22 Pages

Urban multimodal travel trajectory prediction is a core challenge in Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSs). It requires modeling both spatiotemporal dependencies and dynamic interactions among different travel modes such as taxi, bike-sharing, an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,004 Views
16 Pages

7 December 2022

Short-term traffic flow prediction is the basis of and ensures intelligent traffic control. However, the conventional models cannot make accurate predictions due to the strong nonlinearity and randomness in short-term traffic flow data. To this end,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
249 Views
31 Pages

A Multi-Model Dynamic Selection Framework Using Deep Contextual Bandits for Urban Traffic Flow Prediction in Large-Scale Road Networks

  • Silai Chen,
  • Shengfeng Mao,
  • Zongcheng Zhang,
  • Xiaoyuan Zhang,
  • Yunxia Wu,
  • Yangsheng Jiang and
  • Zhihong Yao

4 February 2026

To address the challenge of model selection in large-scale traffic flow prediction tasks, this paper proposes a dynamic multi-model selection framework based on Deep Contextual Bandits (DCB). Centered on the optimal combination of sub-models, the fra...

  • Article
  • Open Access
744 Views
20 Pages

12 August 2025

The traffic flow difference factor is of great significance for traffic flow stability and congestion mitigation. However, its role has not been studied in existing curved-road traffic flow models. To fill this gap, this study proposes an improved la...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
968 Views
26 Pages

Dynamic Spatio-Temporal Modeling for Vessel Traffic Flow Prediction with FSTformer

  • Dong Zhang,
  • Haichao Xu,
  • Yongfeng Guo,
  • Shaoxi Li,
  • Yinyin Lu and
  • Mingyang Pan

20 September 2025

With the rapid growth of global shipping, accurate vessel traffic prediction is essential for waterway management and navigation safety. This study proposes the Fusion Spatio-Temporal Transformer (FSTformer) to address non-Gaussianity, non-stationari...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,822 Views
14 Pages

23 March 2023

This paper focuses on modeling mixed traffic flow that comprises human-driven vehicles (HV), adaptive cruise control (ACC) vehicles, and cooperative adaptive cruise control (CACC) vehicles in the off-ramp diverging area. The car-following behaviors o...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1,952 Views
4 Pages

Lag Variables in Air Pollution Modeling Based on Traffic Flow and Meteorological Factors

  • Joanna A. Kamińska,
  • Guido Sciavicco,
  • Estrella Lucena-Sánchez and
  • Fernando Jiménez

In order to refine the research on the impact of environmental factors on the concentration of pollutants in the air, in this paper, we present a mathematical model that allows the possibility of taking into account the past values of factors (expla...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,136 Views
16 Pages

Optimal Control Design for Traffic Flow Maximization Based on Data-Driven Modeling Method

  • Balázs Németh,
  • Dániel Fényes,
  • Zsuzsanna Bede and
  • Péter Gáspár

28 December 2021

This paper proposes enhanced prediction and control design methods for improving traffic flow with human-driven and automated vehicles. To achieve accurate prediction for the entire time horizon, data-driven and model-based prediction methods were in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,056 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
5 Citations
2,652 Views
21 Pages

6 February 2023

Based on analytical and simulation methods, this paper discusses the path choice behavior of mixed traffic flow with autonomous vehicles, advanced traveler information systems (ATIS) vehicles and ordinary vehicles, aiming to promote the development o...

  • Review
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,892 Views
20 Pages

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...

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