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Modeling lane changing and lane choice using naturalistic data from a swarm of drones

The pNEUMA dataset is the result of a unique field experiment using a swarm of ten drones flying over the central district of Athens, Greece. Using this newly available dataset, this paper focuses on two directly related topics: i) lane changing and ii) la ...

2022

Dynamic control strategies for managing pedestrian flows

Nicholas Alan Molyneaux

Pedestrians, like drivers, generally dislike congestion. This is true for most pedestrian environments: trains stations, airports, or shopping malls. Furthermore, pedestrian congestion also influences the attractiveness of public transportation networks. T ...

EPFL2021

Toward Sustainable Ridesourcing Services: A Simulation Study on the Effects of Congestion, Fleet Size, and Willingness to Share

Nikolaos Geroliminis, Caio Vitor Beojone

Human mobility in large cities is a complex dynamical system with high density of population, many transport modes to compete for limited available space and many operators that try to efficiently manage different parts of this system. New emerging modes o ...

2020

Lane Detection and Lane-Changing Identification with High-Resolution Data from a Swarm of Drones

Nikolaos Geroliminis, Emmanouil Barmpounakis

In the era of big data, new transportation-related concepts and methodologies need to be proposed to understand how congestion propagates. pNEUMA, a unique dataset that was acquired during a first-of-its-kind experiment using a swarm of drones over a dense ...

National Academy of Sciences2020

An optimization framework for exclusive bus lane allocation in large networks with dynamic congestion

Nikolaos Geroliminis, Anastasios Kouvelas, Dimitrios Tsitsokas

Road space distribution among multiple modes of transport in urban networks has attracted the interest of several researchers and policy planners. Traditionally, these problems are solved by ignoring operational and dynamic characteristics of multi-modal c ...

2019

Two-layer hierarchical control for large-scale urban traffic networks

Nikolaos Geroliminis, Anastasios Kouvelas

Many efforts have been carried out to optimize the traffic signal settings in cities. Nevertheless, state-of-the-art and -practice strategies cannot deal efficiently with oversaturated conditions (i.e. queue spillbacks and partial gridlocks), as they are e ...

IEEE2018

A link partitioning approach for real-time control of queue spillbacks on congested arterials

Nikolaos Geroliminis, Mohsen Ramezani Ghalenoei

In oversaturated urban traffic conditions when traffic demand exceeds capacity at signalised intersections, queues fail to clear during the allocated green times. Once a queue reaches the upstream intersection in an arterial, a queue spillback occurs that ...

Taylor & Francis Ltd2016

Analysis of Traffic Performance of a Merging Assistant Strategy Using Cooperative Vehicles

Riccardo Scarinci

Emerging in-car communication technologies continually offer new communication capabilities between vehicles and infrastructure that, together with more accurate positioning systems, can be used to improve the use of current infrastructure. The aim of this ...

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2015

A Multi-Dimensional Analysis of Hard Shoulder Running Systems

André-Gilles Dumont, Dimitrios Efthymiou, Sofia Samoili

The use of Hard Shoulder Running (HSR) systems is a relatively recent control policy aiming to ameliorate traffic conditions in recurrent congested networks. This ITS strategy attracts researchers and practitioners interest, in an attempt to assess its imp ...

2014

Traffic modeling, estimation and control for large-scale congested urban networks

Mohsen Ramezani Ghalenoei

Part I of the thesis investigates novel urban traffic state estimation methods utilizing probe vehicle data. Chapter 2 proposes a method to integrate the collective effect of dispersed probe data with traffic kinematic wave theory and data mining technique ...

EPFL2014

On the consistency of freeway macroscopic merging models

Nikolaos Geroliminis

Many first-order macroscopic models for freeway traffic have been developed since the seminal work on the well-known Lighthill-Whitham-Richards, or LWR, continuous model. The asymmetric cell transmission model (ACTM) is a widely accepted macroscopic model ...

Natl Acad Sciences2014

Empirical observations of capacity drop in freeway merges with ramp control and integration in a first-order model

Nikolaos Geroliminis

An accurate density monitoring along a stretch of a freeway, especially under congested time-variant conditions is necessary to evaluate congestion levels, understand complex traffic phenomena and develop efficient control strategies. In the first part of ...

Elsevier2013

Cooperative traffic control of a mixed network with two urban regions and a freeway

Nikolaos Geroliminis, Mohsen Ramezani Ghalenoei, Jack Haddad

Currently most optimization methods for urban transport networks (i) are suited for networks with simplified dynamics that are far from real-sized networks or (ii) apply decentralized control, which is not appropriate for heterogeneously loaded networks or ...

Elsevier2013

Dynamics of Lane Distribution Flows in Freeways

Nikolaos Geroliminis, André-Gilles Dumont, Sofia Samoili

Lane density and lane flow distribution are utilised in the current study as characteristics of traffic dynamics for control and planning purposes in freeways with ITS systems. As part of an on-going research, the Lane Flow Distribution Ratio (LFDR) and th ...

2013

Perimeter and boundary flow control in multi-reservoir heterogeneous networks

Nikolaos Geroliminis

In this paper, we macroscopically describe the traffic dynamics in heterogeneous transportation urban networks by utilizing the Macroscopic Fundamental Diagram (MFD), a widely observed relation between network-wide space-mean flow and density of vehicles. ...

Elsevier2013

A Dynamic-Zone-Based Coordinated Ramp-Metering Algorithm With Queue Constraints for Minnesota's Freeways

Nikolaos Geroliminis

Following about 40 years of successful deployment of coordinated traffic-responsive ramp control, a new generation is being developed for Minnesota's freeways based on density measurements, rather than flow rates. This was motivated from recent research in ...

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2011

Fatigue load estimation for road bridges using long term WIM monitoring

Eugen Brühwiler, Mark Anthony Treacy

As bridges form the keystone of transport networks, their safe operation with minimal maintenance closures is paramount for efficient operation. Yearly increases in the volume of heavy traffic mean a higher number of fatigue damaging load cycles. The study ...

Bérenguer, Christophe; Grall Antoine & Guedes Soares, Carlos2011

An Empirical Analysis on the Arterial Fundamental Diagram

Nikolaos Geroliminis

For uninterrupted traffic flow, it is well-known that the fundamental diagram (FD) describes the relationship between traffic flow and density under steady state. For interrupted traffic flow on a signalized road, it has been recognized that the arterial f ...

Elsevier2011