One of the key reasons why the road capacity of urban roads in China often fails to meet the designed capacity is the mixture of heavy vehicles (slow-moving) and light vehicles (fast-moving). This paper presents a two-lane cellular automaton model suitable for simulating urban road traffic that includes intersections, based on the NaSch model. The model comprehensively takes into account multiple key factors, such as vehicle safety distance, speed differences between adjacent vehicles, the acceleration and deceleration performance of different types of vehicles, and driver reaction time, enabling it to more realistically reproduce the complex characteristics of mixed traffic flows on urban roads. The paper investigates and analyzes the influence of traffic flow density and the proportion of heavy vehicles on the moving bottleneck effect in urban roads from several aspects, including space–time evolution diagrams, traffic flow, average speed, and lane-changing rates. The results indicate that the model established in this paper successfully simulates the characteristics of mixed traffic flows on urban roads, and the simulation results align with actual traffic conditions, achieving the expected simulation effects. Before the traffic volume reaches saturation, the higher the proportion of heavy vehicles on urban roads, the stronger the moving bottleneck effect. This confirms the necessity of conducting research on the phenomenon of moving bottlenecks and the mechanisms of traffic impacts in urban roads, providing a scientific basis for formulating effective traffic dispersion measures and alleviating traffic congestion in the future. This research possesses significant practical meaning and value.
Accurate multivariate traffic flow forecasting is critical for intelligent transportation systems yet remains challenging due to the complex interplay of temporal dynamics and spatial interactions. While Transformer-based models have shown promise in capturing long-range temporal dependencies, most existing approaches compress multidimensional observations into flattened sequences—thereby neglecting explicit modeling of cross-dimensional (i.e., spatial or inter-variable) relationships, which are essential for capturing traffic propagation, network-wide congestion, and node-specific behaviors. To address this limitation, we propose TSAformer, a novel Transformer architecture that explicitly preserves and jointly models time and dimension as dual structural axes. TSAformer begins with a multimodal input embedding layer that encodes raw traffic values alongside temporal context (time-of-day and day-of-week) and node-specific positional features, ensuring rich semantic representation. The core of TSAformer is the Two-Stage Attention (TSA) module, which first models intra-dimensional temporal evolution via time-axis self-attention then captures inter-dimensional spatial interactions through a lightweight routing mechanism—avoiding quadratic complexity while enabling all-to-all cross-node communication. Built upon TSA, a hierarchical encoder–decoder (HED) structure further enhances forecasting by modeling traffic patterns across multiple temporal scales, from fine-grained fluctuations to macroscopic trends, and fusing predictions via cross-scale attention. Extensive experiments on three real-world traffic datasets—including urban road networks and highway systems—demonstrate that TSAformer consistently outperforms state-of-the-art baselines across short-term and long-term forecasting horizons. Notably, it achieves top-ranked performance in 36 out of 58 critical evaluation scenarios, including peak-hour and event-driven congestion prediction. By explicitly modeling both temporal and dimensional dependencies without structural compromise, TSAformer provides a scalable, interpretable, and high-performance solution for spatiotemporal traffic forecasting.
With the rapid development of intelligent transportation systems and information technology, the security of road traffic signal systems has increasingly attracted the attention of managers and researchers. This paper proposes a new method for detecting attacks on traffic signal systems based on game theory and Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN). First, a game theory model was used to analyze the strategic game between the attacker and the defender, revealing the diversity and complexity of potential attacks. A Bayesian game model was employed to calculate and analyze the attacker’s choice of position. Then, leveraging the advantages of GAN, an adversarial training framework was designed. This framework can effectively generate attack samples and enhance the robustness of the detection model. Using empirical research, we simulated the mapping of real traffic data, road network data, and network attack data into a simulation environment to validate the effectiveness of this method. In a comparative experiment, we contrasted the method proposed in this paper with the traditional Support Vector Machine (SVM) algorithm, demonstrating that the model presented here can achieve efficient detection and recognition across various attack scenarios, with significantly better recall and F1 scores compared to traditional methods. Finally, this paper also discusses the application prospects of this method and its potential value in future intelligent transportation systems.
Traffic flow prediction plays an important role in intelligent transportation systems. However, accurately modeling traffic dynamics remains challenging due to complex temporal correlations and spatial interactions across road networks. In this work, we propose a Mamba-based macro–micro spatio-temporal model for traffic flow prediction. Unlike graph-based approaches that rely on predefined adjacency matrices to model spatial relationships, our method treats sensor nodes as sequence elements and applies Mamba blocks along the spatial dimension. Through the global receptive field of the structured state space model, spatial dependencies are implicitly learned without requiring explicit graph structures. The proposed architecture consists of stacked spatio-temporal blocks, each composed of two Macro Feature Blocks and one Micro Feature Block. The Macro Feature Blocks are designed to capture global temporal dependencies and spatial interactions across all nodes, while the Micro Feature Block focuses on modeling localized spatio-temporal patterns at a finer granularity. By applying structured state space modeling along both temporal and spatial dimensions, the model is able to capture long-range temporal dependencies and global spatial correlations without relying on explicit graph structures. Experiments conducted on four real-world datasets demonstrate that the proposed model achieves competitive or improved performance compared with existing baseline methods under standard evaluation metrics.
This research aims to address the limited consideration given to non-motorized transport facilities in current studies on shared bike travel demand forecasting. This study is the first to propose a method that applies complete citywide non-motorized facility data to predict bike-sharing demand. This study employs a multiscale geographically weighted regression (MGWR) model to examine the effects of non-motorized transport facility conditions, quantity of intersections, and land use per unit area on riding demand at various spatial scales. The results of comparison experiments reveal that riding demand is substantially affected by non-motorized transport facilities and the quantity of intersections.
This paper presents a scheme for the feedforward–feedback longitudinal trajectory tracking control of buses. The scheme is specifically designed to address the periodic and repetitive nature of bus operations. First, the vehicle’s longitudinal dynamics are linearized along the iterative axis via full-form dynamic linearization (FFDL), and parameters such as the pseudo-gradient are estimated with data and a projection algorithm to grasp the dynamic characteristics of the system. To better handle complex real-world traffic conditions, we then propose the forward and backward structure. At the same time, the iterative axis design performance index is verified, and the forward partial control law, namely, model-free adaptive iterative learning control (MFAILC), is derived. In order to further enhance the robustness to disturbance and other factors, the control law of the feedback part is designed with active disturbance rejection control (ADRC). A key advantage of this control approach is its sole reliance on the data generated during vehicle operation, without the need for specific information about the controlled vehicle. This feature enables the method to be adaptable to different vehicle types and resilient to various disturbances. Finally, MATLAB simulations are used to verify the practicality of the proposed method.