Macroscopic network-level traffic models: Bridging fifty years of development toward the next era

M Johari, M Keyvan-Ekbatani, L Leclercq… - … Research Part C …, 2021‏ - Elsevier
Network macroscopic fundamental diagrams (NMFD) and related network-level traffic
dynamics models have received both theoretical support and empirical validation with the …

Criticism of generally accepted fundamentals and methodologies of traffic and transportation theory: A brief review

BS Kerner - Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2013‏ - Elsevier
It is explained why the set of the fundamental empirical features of traffic breakdown (a
transition from free flow to congested traffic) should be the empirical basis for any traffic and …

Deep irregular convolutional residual LSTM for urban traffic passenger flows prediction

B Du, H Peng, S Wang, MZA Bhuiyan… - IEEE Transactions …, 2019‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Urban traffic passenger flows prediction is practically important to facilitate many real
applications including transportation management and public safety. Recently, deep …

Constructing a fundamental diagram for traffic flow with automated vehicles: Methodology and demonstration

X Shi, X Li - Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, 2021‏ - Elsevier
Increasingly, commercial vehicles are equipped with automated vehicle (AV) features such
as adaptive cruise control systems. The AV feature can automatically control the headway …

Understanding traffic capacity of urban networks

A Loder, L Ambühl, M Menendez, KW Axhausen - Scientific reports, 2019‏ - nature.com
Traffic in an urban network becomes congested once there is a critical number of vehicles in
the network. To improve traffic operations, develop new congestion mitigation strategies …

Macroscopic modeling and dynamic control of on-street cruising-for-parking of autonomous vehicles in a multi-region urban road network

C Zhao, F Liao, X Li, Y Du - Transportation Research Part C: Emerging …, 2021‏ - Elsevier
The spatio-temporal imbalance of parking demand and supply results in unwanted on-street
cruising-for-parking traffic of conventional vehicles. Autonomous vehicles (AVs) can self …

Dynamics of heterogeneity in urban networks: aggregated traffic modeling and hierarchical control

M Ramezani, J Haddad, N Geroliminis - Transportation Research Part B …, 2015‏ - Elsevier
Real traffic data and simulation analysis reveal that for some urban networks a well-defined
Macroscopic Fundamental Diagram (MFD) exists, which provides a unimodal and low …

Exploiting the fundamental diagram of urban networks for feedback-based gating

M Keyvan-Ekbatani, A Kouvelas, I Papamichail… - … Research Part B …, 2012‏ - Elsevier
Traffic signal control for urban road networks has been an area of intensive research efforts
for several decades, and various algorithms and tools have been developed and …

An s-shaped three-parameter (S3) traffic stream model with consistent car following relationship

Q Cheng, Z Liu, Y Lin, XS Zhou - Transportation Research Part B …, 2021‏ - Elsevier
In this study, a new s-shaped three-parameter (S3) traffic flow model is proposed to
represent the relationships between three fundamental variables (ie, flow, speed, and …

Perimeter and boundary flow control in multi-reservoir heterogeneous networks

K Aboudolas, N Geroliminis - Transportation Research Part B …, 2013‏ - Elsevier
In this paper, we macroscopically describe the traffic dynamics in heterogeneous
transportation urban networks by utilizing the Macroscopic Fundamental Diagram (MFD), a …