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 survey of urban drive-by sensing: An optimization perspective

W Ji, K Han, T Liu - Sustainable Cities and Society, 2023 - Elsevier
Pervasive and mobile sensing is an integral part of smart transport and smart city
applications. Vehicle-based mobile sensing, or drive-by sensing (DS), is gaining popularity …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Residual neural networks for origin–destination trip matrix estimation from traffic sensor information

A Alshehri, M Owais, J Gyani, MH Aljarbou, S Alsulamy - Sustainability, 2023 - mdpi.com
Traffic management and control applications require comprehensive knowledge of traffic
flow data. Typically, such information is gathered using traffic sensors, which have two basic …

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 …

Robust bus bridging service design under rail transit system disruptions

J Liang, J Wu, Y Qu, H Yin, X Qu, Z Gao - Transportation Research Part E …, 2019 - Elsevier
This paper focuses on designing robust bus bridging service in response to the rail transit
system disruptions. We firstly develop a path-based multi-commodity flow formulation to bus …

[HTML][HTML] Modeling the effect of sensor failure on the location of counting sensors for origin-destination (OD) estimation

M Salari, L Kattan, WHK Lam, MA Esfeh, H Fu - … Research Part C …, 2021 - Elsevier
The network sensor location problem (NSLP) for origin–destination (OD) estimation
identifies the optimal locations for sensors to estimate the vehicular flow of OD pairs in a …

[HTML][HTML] Optimization of traffic sensor location for complete link flow observability in traffic network considering sensor failure

M Salari, L Kattan, WHK Lam, HP Lo… - … Research Part B …, 2019 - Elsevier
The full link flow observability problem is to identify the minimum set of traffic sensors to be
installed in links in a road traffic network. The sensors are used to both monitor the flow of …

[HTML][HTML] Optimal roadside units location for path flow reconstruction in a connected vehicle environment

M Salari, L Kattan, M Gentili - Transportation Research Part C: Emerging …, 2022 - Elsevier
The path flow reconstruction problem is used to determine the minimum set of links that must
be equipped with traffic monitoring devices to identify vehicle paths in a road network. This …

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 …