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Predictive user-based relocation through incentives in one-way car-sharing systems

Nikolaos Geroliminis, Patrick Stefan Adriaan Stokkink

Car-sharing systems are an attractive alternative to private vehicles due to their benefits in terms of mobility and sustainability. However, the distribution of vehicles throughout the network in one-way systems is disturbed due to asymmetry and stochasti ...

2021

Experimental assessment of traffic density estimation at link and network level with sparse data

Nikolaos Geroliminis

This paper investigates the accuracy of mean density estimation from direct sensing at link and network levels. Different calculation methods are compared depending on sensor type, probe vehicles or loop detectors, and availability to quantify the magnitud ...

TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD2022

A Measure of Dynamical Efficiency for Multimodal Interconnected Urban Systems

Nikolaos Geroliminis, Leonardo Bellocchi

Complex network theory describes network performance mostly based on topological characteristics, like betweenness centrality. This work integrates concepts from complex networks and traffic engineering. We propose a new measure for spatial networks and, i ...

2020

Integrated departure and boundary control for low-altitude air city transport systems

Nikolaos Geroliminis

Connectivity and digitalization will enable new control measures in urban air mobility operations and open new ways for integrating these measures in real-time traffic management. Hence, new control strategies can be designed to regulate both demand and su ...

2024

Hierarchical Control for Vehicle Repositioning in Autonomous Mobility-on-Demand Systems

Nikolaos Geroliminis, Giancarlo Ferrari Trecate, Pengbo Zhu

Balancing passenger demand and vehicle availability is crucial for ensuring the sustainability and effectiveness of urban transportation systems. To address this challenge, we propose a novel hierarchical strategy for the efficient distribution of empty ve ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2024

An integrated optimization-simulation framework for vehicle and personnel relocations of electric carsharing systems with reservations

Nikolaos Geroliminis, Burak Boyaci

One-way electric vehicle carsharing systems are receiving increasing attention due to their mobility, environmental, and societal benefits. One of the major issues faced by the operators of these systems is the optimization of the relocation operations of ...

Elsevier2017

On the use of reservation-based autonomous vehicles for demand management

Nikolaos Geroliminis, Raphael Ali Francis Lamotte

Automated mobility on demand is foreseen as the future of urban passenger mobility. While mixed-traffic for autonomous and conventional vehicles could be considered, separation amplifies the benefits of automation. Combined with mobility as a service, sepa ...

2017

Modeling and integrated control of macroscopic heterogeneous traffic flow in large scale urban network using coloured Petri net

Nikolaos Geroliminis, Anastasios Kouvelas

The evaluation of perimeter control using Macroscopic Fundamental Diagram (MFD) concept is strongly related with the quality of the corresponding dynamic models. For capturing the real characteristics of traffic dynamics, an enhanced accumulation-based tra ...

2019

On decentralized computation of the leader's strategy in bi-level games

Nikolaos Geroliminis, Marko Maljkovic

Motivated by the omnipresence of hierarchical structures in many real-world applications, this study delves into the intricate realm of bi-level games, with a specific focus on exploring local Stackelberg equilibria as a solution concept. While existing li ...

2025

Linear-parameter-varying model predictive control for multi-region traffic systems

Nikolaos Geroliminis, Mohammadreza Saeedmanesh, Anastasios Kouvelas

An alternative approach for real-time network-wide traffic control in cities that has recently gained a lot of interest is perimeter flow control. The basic concept of such an approach is to partition heterogeneous cities into a small number of homogeneous ...

2019

A two-level resolution neural network with enhanced interpretability for freeway traffic forecasting

Nikolaos Geroliminis, Semin Kwak, Danya Li

© The Author(s) 2024.Deep learning models are widely used for traffic forecasting on freeways due to their ability to learn complex temporal and spatial relationships. In particular, graph neural networks, which integrate graph theory into deep learning, h ...

Nature Research2024

On the spatial partitioning of urban transportation networks

Nikolaos Geroliminis, Yuxuan Ji

It has been recently shown that a macroscopic fundamental diagram (MFD) linking space-mean network flow, density and speed exists in the urban transportation networks under some conditions. An MFD is further well defined if the network is homogeneous with ...

Elsevier2012

Advanced computer vision for extracting georeferenced vehicle trajectories from drone imagery

Nikolaos Geroliminis, Robert Fonod

This paper presents a comprehensive framework for extracting georeferenced vehicle trajectories from high-altitude drone imagery, addressing key challenges in urban traffic monitoring and the limitations of traditional ground-based systems. Our approach in ...

Elsevier BV2025

Optimal Perimeter Control for Two Urban Regions With Macroscopic Fundamental Diagrams: A Model Predictive Approach

Nikolaos Geroliminis, Mohsen Ramezani Ghalenoei, Jack Haddad

Recent analysis of empirical data from cities showed that a macroscopic fundamental diagram (MFD) of urban traffic provides for homogenous network regions a unimodal low-scatter relationship between network vehicle density and network space-mean flow. In t ...

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2013

Dynamic lane restrictions on congested arterials

Nikolaos Geroliminis

Buses operating in mixed traffic experience problems with delay and travel time variability in peak periods. Numerous transit priority measures are found in the literature but most rely on separating buses from other vehicles. Complete separation such as d ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2020

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

Modeling the morning commute for urban networks with cruising-for-parking: An MFD approach

Nikolaos Geroliminis, Wei Liu

This study focuses on the morning commute problem with explicit consideration of cruising-for-parking, and its adverse impacts on traffic congestion. The cruising-for-parking is modeled through a dynamic aggregated traffic model for networks: the Macroscop ...

Elsevier2016

The morning commute in urban areas with heterogeneous trip lengths

Nikolaos Geroliminis, Raphael Ali Francis Lamotte

This paper investigates the equilibrium properties of the morning commute problem at the network level with heterogeneous trip lengths. Congestion is modeled with a Macroscopic Fundamental Diagram relating the space-mean speed of a network to the vehicular ...

2017

TwoResNet: Two-level resolution neural network for traffic forecasting on freeway networks

Nikolaos Geroliminis, Semin Kwak

Traffic forecasting problems of freeway networks are heavily tackled by deep learning methods because it requires learning highly complex correlations between variables both in time and space. Adopting a graph convolutional network (GCN) becomes a standard ...

IEEE2022

Receding-Horizon Games with Tullock-Based Profit Functions for Electric Ride-Hailing Markets

Nikolaos Geroliminis, Nils Gustav Nilsson, Marko Maljkovic

This paper proposes a receding-horizon, game-theoretic charging planning mechanism for electric ride-hailing markets. As the demand for ride-hailing services continues to surge and governments advocate for stricter environmental regulations, integrating el ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.2024