Traffic monitoring systems usually make assumptions about the movement of vehicles, such as that they drive in dedicated lanes, and that those lanes rarely include non-vehicle clutter. Urban settings within developing countries often present extremely chaotic traffic scenarios which make these assumptions unrealistic. We show how a standard approach to traffic monitoring can be made more robust...

Simulation models are mathematical/logical representations of real-world systems. Microscopic traffic simulation models have been playing an important role in traffic engineering and particularly in cases, in which field studies, involving extensive data collection, over a wide range, is difficult or expensive to conduct. As the available simulation models can only replicate homogeneous traffic...

The recent economic growth in developing countries like India has resulted in an intense increase of vehicle ownership and use, as witnessed by severe traffic congestion and bottlenecks during peak hours in most of the metropolitan cities. Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) aim to reduce traffic congestion by adopting various strategies such as providing pre-trip and en-route traffic info...

In this paper, the stability analysis and control design of heterogeneous traffic flow is considered. It is assumed that the traffic flow consists of infinite number of cooperative non-identical vehicular platoons. Two different networks are investigated in stability analysis of heterogeneous traffic flow: 1) inter-platoon network which deals with the communication topology of lead vehicles and...

The Robust and reliable traffic information detection from images acquired by traffic surveillance system is an important problem with numerous applications including adaptive traffic signal control system and traffic analysis system. This paper describes an application of computer vision techniques to traffic surveillance. The objective in this paper is to improve the efficiency of traffic flo...

Although advanced traffic management systems can deal with the heterogeneous traffic flows approaching of intersections, their performances are compromised, when the traffic volume is not distributed uniformly. To evenly distribute the traffic flow, an advanced driver information system should be aware of the traffic control operations. However, such requirement can not ultimately be satisfied ...

Traffic signals and traffic flow models have been studied extensively in the past and have provided valuable insights on the design of signalling systems, congestion control, and punitive policies. This paper takes a slightly different tack and describes what happens at an intersection where the traffic signals are malfunctioning and stuck in some configuration. By modelling individual vehicles...