Failure of classical traffic flow theories: Stochastic highway capacity and automatic driving

BS Kerner - Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2016 - Elsevier
In a mini-review Kerner (2013) it has been shown that classical traffic flow theories and
models failed to explain empirical traffic breakdown—a phase transition from metastable …

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 …

Air traffic flow management under uncertainty using chance-constrained optimization

J Chen, L Chen, D Sun - Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, 2017 - Elsevier
In order to efficiently balance traffic demand and capacity, optimization of Air Traffic Flow
Management (ATFM) relies on accurate predictions of future capacity states. However, these …

A visualization and optimization of the impact of a severe weather disruption to an air transportation network

C Glass, L Davis, K Watkins-Lewis - Computers & Industrial Engineering, 2022 - Elsevier
The task of visualizing data becomes more challenging as the size and complexity of the
data increases. Specifically, for Air transportation networks, large data sets or Big Data …

A network based dynamic air traffic flow model for en route airspace system traffic flow optimization

D Chen, M Hu, H Zhang, J Yin, K Han - Transportation Research Part E …, 2017 - Elsevier
This study proposes a mesoscopic dynamic air traffic model based on a dynamic network for
en route airspaces by characterizing the dynamics and distribution of traffic speed. Based on …

Total unimodularity and decomposition method for large-scale air traffic cell transmission model

P Wei, Y Cao, D Sun - Transportation research part B: Methodological, 2013 - Elsevier
In an earlier work, Sun and Bayen built a Large-Capacity Cell Transmission Model for air
traffic flow management. They formulated an integer programming problem of minimizing the …

Reviewing the DATAS of aviation research data: Diversity, availability, tractability, applicability, and sources

MZ Li, MS Ryerson - Journal of Air Transport Management, 2019 - Elsevier
The field of aviation research is entering the era of big data. While data-driven
advancements in aviation have clearly brought about applicable models and results with …

Hybridized encoding for evolutionary multi-objective optimization of air traffic network flow: A case study on China

M **ao, K Cai, HA Abbass - Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and …, 2018 - Elsevier
This paper presents a novel hybridized indirect and direct encoding (HybrID) genetic
algorithm for solving air traffic network flow optimization problems. A heuristic, which uses …

Nash game-based distributed control design for balancing traffic density over freeway networks

D Pisarski, C Canudas-de-Wit - IEEE Transactions on Control …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we study the problem of optimal balancing of vehicle density in freeway traffic.
The optimization is performed in a distributed manner by utilizing the controllability …

[PDF][PDF] Optimal large-scale air traffic flow management

H Balakrishnan, BG Chandran - Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Tech …, 2014 - mit.edu
This paper presents an integer programming approach for solving large-scale air traffic flow
management problems. Given flight-specific operating and delay costs, the proposed …