Traffic sensor location problem: Three decades of research

M Owais - Expert Systems with Applications, 2022 - Elsevier
Traffic flow data is a decisive element in transportation planning and traffic management.
Over time, traffic sensors have been recognized as sources of such data. Despite their …

Deep learning for integrated origin–destination estimation and traffic sensor location problems

M Owais - IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Traffic control and management applications require the full realization of traffic flow data.
Frequently, such data are acquired by traffic sensors with two issues: it is not practicable or …

Exact and heuristics algorithms for screen line problem in large size networks: shortest path-based column generation approach

M Owais, AI Shahin - IEEE Transactions on Intelligent …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this study, we present exact and heuristics algorithms for a traffic sensors location problem
called the screen line problem. It is a problem of how to locate traffic sensors on a …

Optimization of multi-type traffic sensor locations for estimation of multi-period origin-destination demands with covariance effects

H Fu, WHK Lam, H Shao, L Kattan, M Salari - Transportation Research Part …, 2022 - Elsevier
The hourly traffic flows between various origin–destination (OD) pairs fluctuate by time of
day and day of the year. These multi-period OD demands are statistically correlated with one …

[HTML][HTML] Sensor location model for O/D estimation: Multi-criteria meta-heuristics approach

M Owais, GS Moussa, KF Hussain - Operations Research Perspectives, 2019 - Elsevier
With the progress in intelligent transportation systems, a great interest has been directed
towards traffic sensors information for flow estimation problems. Nevertheless, there is a …

Robust deep learning architecture for traffic flow estimation from a subset of link sensors

M Owais, GS Moussa, KF Hussain - Journal of Transportation …, 2020 - ascelibrary.org
Traffic flow data are needed for traffic management and control applications as well as for
transportation planning issues. Such data are usually collected from traffic sensors; …

[HTML][HTML] Optimization of multi-type sensor locations for simultaneous estimation of origin-destination demands and link travel times with covariance effects

H Fu, WHK Lam, H Shao, W Ma, BY Chen… - … Research Part B …, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper investigates the multi-type traffic sensor location problem for simultaneous
estimation of origin-destination (OD) demands and link travel times while also considering …

A factorization scheme for observability analysis in transportation networks

M Owais, AE Matouk - Expert Systems with Applications, 2021 - Elsevier
Traffic flow data are a significant component of most intelligent transportation systems (ITS).
Complete traffic flow data are required for most ITS applications, but providing traffic sensors …

Optimization of multi-type traffic sensor locations for network-wide link travel time estimation with consideration of their covariance

H Fu, WHK Lam, HW Ho, W Ma - Transportmetrica B: Transport …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Due to the propagation of traffic congestion from upstream to downstream links and the
uncertainty of path choice behaviours, travel times between different links, particularly …

City-wide traffic flow estimation from a limited number of low-quality cameras

T Idé, T Katsuki, T Morimura… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present a new approach to lightweight intelligent transportation systems. Our approach
does not rely on traditional expensive infrastructures, but rather on advanced machine …