Fitting empirical fundamental diagrams of road traffic: A comprehensive review and comparison of models using an extensive data set

DM Bramich, M Menéndez… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Understanding the inter-relationships between traffic flow, density, and speed through the
study of the fundamental diagram of road traffic is critical for traffic modelling and …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Two-layer adaptive signal control framework for large-scale dynamically-congested networks: Combining efficient Max Pressure with Perimeter Control

D Tsitsokas, A Kouvelas, N Geroliminis - Transportation Research Part C …, 2023 - Elsevier
Traffic-responsive signal control is a cost-effective, easy-to-implement, network management
strategy, bearing high potential to improve performance in heavily congested networks with …

Estimating MFDs, trip lengths and path flow distributions in a multi-region setting using mobile phone data

M Paipuri, Y Xu, MC González, L Leclercq - Transportation Research Part …, 2020 - Elsevier
The present work proposes a global framework to estimate all MFD model parameters using
mobile phone data. The three major components that are estimated in the present context …

[HTML][HTML] Disentangling the city traffic rhythms: A longitudinal analysis of MFD patterns over a year

L Ambühl, A Loder, L Leclercq, M Menendez - Transportation Research Part …, 2021 - Elsevier
Urban road transportation performance is the result of a complex interplay between the
network supply and the travel demand. Fortunately, the framework around the macroscopic …

[HTML][HTML] Optimal pricing and investment in a multi-modal city—Introducing a macroscopic network design problem based on the MFD

A Loder, MCJ Bliemer, KW Axhausen - Transportation Research Part A …, 2022 - Elsevier
Improving the performance of an existing transportation system is a challenge for engineers
and policy makers as many dimensions and system design variables are interacting. In this …

[HTML][HTML] On the design of an optimal flexible bus dispatching system with modular bus units: Using the three-dimensional macroscopic fundamental diagram

I Dakic, K Yang, M Menendez, JYJ Chow - Transportation Research Part B …, 2021 - Elsevier
This study proposes a novel flexible bus dispatching system in which a fleet of fully
automated modular bus units, together with conventional buses, serves the passenger …

Data fusion for estimating Macroscopic Fundamental Diagram in large-scale urban networks

E Saffari, M Yildirimoglu, M Hickman - Transportation Research Part C …, 2022 - Elsevier
Since the concept of the Macroscopic Fundamental Diagram (MFD) has been introduced,
many studies have investigated the existence and characteristics of the MFD using empirical …

Network-scale traffic prediction via knowledge transfer and regional MFD analysis

J Li, N **e, K Zhang, F Guo, S Hu, XM Chen - Transportation research part …, 2022 - Elsevier
Network traffic flow prediction on a fine-grained spatio-temporal scale is essential for
intelligent transportation systems, and extensive studies have been carried out in this area …

[HTML][HTML] FitFun: A modelling framework for successfully capturing the functional form and noise of observed traffic flow–density–speed relationships

DM Bramich, M Menendez, L Ambühl - Transportation research part C …, 2023 - Elsevier
Measurements of the average properties of vehicular traffic are inherently noisy. The
distributions of flow and speed measurements at any particular density are non-Gaussian …