With the continuous increase in car ownership, alleviating traffic congestion and reducing carbon emissions have become key challenges in urban traffic management. This study constructs a multi-agent model to evaluate the impact of various traffic optimization interventions on citizens’ travel behavior and traffic carbon emission levels. Different from previous mathematical models, this model integrates computer technology and geographic information systems, abstracting travelers as agents with self-control capabilities who can make independent decisions based on their own circumstances, thus reflecting individual differences in travel behavior. Using the real geographical and social environment of the high-density travel area in Xiaodian District, Taiyuan City as a case study, this research explores the overall improvement in the urban transportation system through the implementation of multiple traffic optimization interventions, such as a parking reservation system, the promotion of the park-and-ride mode, and the optimization of public transportation services. Studies have demonstrated that, compared to reducing bus fares, travelers exhibit a greater sensitivity to waiting times. Reducing bus departure intervals can increase the proportion of park-and-ride trips to 25.79%, surpassing the 19.19% increase observed with fare adjustments. A moderate increase in the proportion of reserved parking spaces can elevate the public transport load to 49.85%. The synergistic effect of a combined strategy can further boost the public transport share to 50.62%, while increasing the park-and-ride trip proportion to 33.6%, thereby highlighting the comprehensive benefits of implementing multiple strategies in tandem. When the parking reservation system is effectively implemented, carbon dioxide emissions can be reduced from over 800 kg to below 200 kg, and the proportion of vehicle cruising can decrease from over 20% to under 15%. These results underscore the critical role of the parking reservation strategy in optimizing traffic flow and advancing environmental sustainability.
29 June 2024 in International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence
Real-time and accurate traffic forecasting aids in traffic planning and design and helps to alleviate congestion. Addressing the negative impacts of partial data loss in traffic forecasting, and the challenge of simultaneously capturing short-term fluctuations and long-term trends, this paper presents a traffic forecasting model, D-MGDCN-CLSTM, based on Multi-Graph Gated Dilated Convolution and Conv-LSTM. The model uses the DTWN algorithm to fill in missing data. To better capture the dual characteristics of short-term fluctuations and long-term trends in traffic, the model employs the DWT for multi-scale decomposition to obtain approximation and detail coefficients. The Conv-LSTM processes the approximation coefficients to capture the long-term characteristics of the time series, while the multiple layers of the MGDCN process the detail coefficients to capture short-term fluctuations. The outputs of the two branches are then merged to produce the forecast results. The model is tested against 10 algorithms using the PeMSD7(M) and PeMSD7(L) datasets, improving MAE, RMSE, and ACC by an average of 1.38% and 13.89%, 1% and 1.24%, and 5.92% and 1%, respectively. Ablation experiments, parameter impact analysis, and visual analysis all demonstrate the superiority of our decompositional approach in handling the dual characteristics of traffic data.
27 February 2025 in International Journal of Communication Systems
For the synthesis of ultra-large scene and ultra-high resolution videos, in order to obtain high-quality large-scene videos, high-quality video stitching and fusion are achieved through multi-scale unstructured array cameras. This paper proposes a network model image feature point extraction algorithm based on symmetric auto-encoding and scale feature fusion. By using the principle of symmetric auto-encoding, the hierarchical restoration of image feature location information is incorporated into the corresponding scale feature, along with deep separable convolution image feature extraction, which not only improves the performance of feature point detection but also significantly reduces the computational complexity of the network model. Based on the calculated high-precision feature point pairing information, a new image localization method is proposed based on area ratio and homography matrix scaling, which improves the speed and accuracy of the array camera image scale alignment and positioning, realizes high-definition perception of local details in large scenes, and obtains clearer synthesis effects of large scenes and high-quality stitched images. The experimental results show that the feature point extraction algorithm proposed in this paper has been experimentally compared with four typical algorithms using the HPatches dataset. The performance of feature point detection has been improved by an average of 4.9%, the performance of homography estimation has been improved by an average of 2.5%, the amount of computation has been reduced by 18%, the number of network model parameters has been reduced by 47%, and the synthesis of billion-pixel videos has been achieved, demonstrating practicality and robustness.