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 …

A state‐of‐the‐art review of the sensor location, flow observability, estimation, and prediction problems in traffic networks

E Castillo, Z Grande, A Calviño, WY Szeto… - Journal of …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
A state‐of‐the‐art review of flow observability, estimation, and prediction problems in traffic
networks is performed. Since mathematical optimization provides a general framework for all …

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 …

Assessing partial observability in network sensor location problems

F Viti, M Rinaldi, F Corman, CMJ Tampère - Transportation research part B …, 2014 - Elsevier
The quality of information on a network is crucial for different transportation planning and
management applications. Problems focusing on where to strategically extract this …

Roadside LiDAR placement for cooperative traffic detection by a novel chance constrained stochastic simulation optimization approach

Y Chen, L Zheng, Z Tan - Transportation Research Part C: Emerging …, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) plays a pivotal role in localization, thereby
meeting the imperative to accurately discern vehicle positions and road states for enhanced …

[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 …

Heterogeneous sensor location model for path reconstruction

C Fu, N Zhu, S Ling, S Ma, Y Huang - Transportation Research Part B …, 2016 - Elsevier
A new traffic sensor location problem is developed and solved by strategically placing both
passive and active sensors in a transportation network for path reconstruction. Passive …

Data-driven distributionally robust optimization approach for reliable travel-time-information-gain-oriented traffic sensor location model

N Zhu, C Fu, S Ma - Transportation research part B: methodological, 2018 - Elsevier
Travel time is one of the most intuitive pieces of traffic information to help decision makers to
control real-time traffic conditions and to guide travelers to choose a reasonable route. An …

Vehicle identification sensor models for origin–destination estimation

M Hadavi, Y Shafahi - Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, 2016 - Elsevier
The traditional approach to origin–destination (OD) estimation based on data surveys is
highly expensive. Therefore, researchers have attempted to develop reasonable low-cost …