Publications
Publications on AI for Urban Traffic Management and Control
2024
R. Guo, M. Vallati, Y. Wang, H. Zhang, Y. Chen, FY. Wang, Sustainability Opportunities and Ethical Challenges of AI-Enabled Connected Autonomous Vehicles Routing in Urban Areas, In IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles, 2024.
A. El Kouaiti, F. Percassi, A. Saetti, T.L. McCluskey, M. Vallati, PDDL+ Models for Deployable yet Effective Traffic Signal Optimisation, In Proceedings of the 34th International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS-24), 2024.
A. El Kouaiti, F. Percassi, A. Saetti, M. Vallati, The Impact of PDDL+ Language Features on Planning Performance: An Empirical Analysis On a Real-World Case Study, In Proceedings of the 37th International Conference of the Florida AI Research Society (FLAIRS-24), 2024.
A. El Kouaiti, F. Percassi, A. Saetti, T.L. McCluskey, M. Vallati, Deployable yet Effective Traffic Signal Optimisation via Automated Planning, In Proceedings of the 17th Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Search (SoCS-24), 2024.
2023
R. Guo, G. Wei, M. Vallati, W. Zhang, Modular Autonomous Electric Vehicle Scheduling for Customized On-demand Bus Services, In IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 2023.
R. Guo, S. Bhatnagar, G. Wei, S.S. Azadeh, M. Vallati, Operationalizing Modular Autonomous Customized Buses based on Different Demand Prediction Scenarios, In Transportmetrica A: Transport Science, 2023.
X. Dai, M. Vallati, R. Guo, Y. Wang, S. Han, Y. Lin, The Road Ahead: DAO-Secured V2X Infrastructures for Safe and Smart Vehicular Management, In IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles, 2023.
M. Svadlenka, L. Chrpa, Vallati, Improving the Scalability of Automated Planning- based Vehicle Routing via Smart Routes Identification, In Proceedings of 8th Inter- national IEEE Conference on Models and Technologies for Intelligent Transportation Systems (MT-ITS-23), 2023.
M. Vallati, L. Chrpa, In Defence of Good-Old Fashioned Artificial Intelligence Approaches in Intelligent Transportation Systems, In Proceedings of the 26th IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC-23), 2023.
R. Guo, X. Liu, S. Bhatnagar, M. Vallati, Real-time Routing and Scheduling of On-demand Autonomous Customized Bus Systems, In Proceedings of the 26th IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC-23), 2023.
R. Guo, A. Nikitas, S. Parkinson, M. Vallati, One Bus is All it Takes: The Impact of Cyber Attacks in Customised Bus Services, In Proceedings of the 26th IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC-23), 2023.
M. Cardellini, C. Dodaro, M. Maratea, M. Vallati, A Framework for Risk-Aware Routing of Connected Vehicles via Artificial Intelligence, In Proceedings of the 26th IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC-23), 2023.
S. Bhatnagar, R. Guo, K. McCabe, T.L. McCluskey, F.Percassi, M. Vallati, Automated Planning for Generating and Simulating Traffic Signal Strategies, In Proceedings of the 32nd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-23), 2023.
L. Chrpa, M. Vallati, Centralised Vehicle Routing for Optimising Urban Traffic: A Scalability Perspective, In Proceedings of IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV-23), 2023.
F. Percassi, S. Bhatnagar, R. Guo, K. McCabe, T.L. McCluskey, M. Vallati, An Efficient Heuristic for AI-based Urban Traffic Control, In Proceedings of 8th International IEEE Conference on Models and Technologies for Intelligent Transportation Systems (MT- ITS-23), 2023.
S. Bhatnagar, R. Guo, J. Ma, M. Vallati, Prediction of Passengers Demand for Customized Bus Systems (Abstract), In 11th Symposium of the European Association for Research in Transportation (hEART-23), 2023.
M. Vallati, The Power of Good Old-Fashioned AI for Urban Traffic Control, In Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on ICT in Education, Research, and Industrial Applications (ICTERI-23), 2023.
2022
A. Nikitas, S. Parkinson, M. Vallati, The Deceitful Connected and Autonomous Vehicle: Defining the Concept, Contextualising its Dimensions and Proposing Mitigation Policies, In Transport Policy, 2022.
R. Guo, W. Guan, S. Bhatnagar, M. Vallati, A Two-phase Optimization Model for Autonomous Electric Customized Bus Service Design, In Proceedings of The 25th IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC-22), 2022.
S. Bhatnagar, R. Guo, K. McCabe, T.L. McCluskey, E. Scala, M. Vallati, Leveraging Artificial Intelligence for Simulating Traffic Signal Strategies, In Proceedings of The 25h IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC-22), 2022.
S. Bhatnagar, S. Mund, E. Scala, K. McCabe, T.L. McCluskey, M. Vallati, On-the-fly Knowledge Acquisition for Automated Planning Applications: Challenges and Lessons Learnt, In Proceedings of 14th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence (ICAART-22), 2022.
2021
M. Vallati, E. Scala, L. Chrpa, A Hybrid Automated Planning Approach for Urban Real-time Routing of Connected Vehicles, In Proceedings of The 24th IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC-21), 2021.
M. Vallati, L. Chrpa, Effective Real-Time Urban Traffic Routing: An Automated Planning Approach, In Proceedings of the 7th International IEEE Conference on Models and Technologies for Intelligent Transportation Systems (MT-ITS), 2021.
2020
M. Vallati, Centralised versus Decentralised Traffic Optimisation of Urban Road Networks: A Simulation Study, In Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Engineering (ICITE-20), 2020.
M. Vallati, L. Chrpa, Reducing Traffic Congestion in Urban Areas via Real-Time Re-Routing: A Simulation Study, In Proceedings of 33rd Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AJCAI-20), 2020.
M. Vallati, L. Chrpa, A Mixed-Integer Programming Approach for Scheduling Roadworks in Urban Regions, In Proceedings of 33rd Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AJCAI-20), 2020.
2019
G. Antoniou, S. Batsakis, J. Davies, A. Duke, T.L. McCluskey, E. Peytchev, I. Tachmazidis, M. Vallati, Enabling the Use of a Planning Agent for Urban Traffic Management via Enriched and Integrated Urban Data, Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies, 98, 284-297, 2019.
M. Vallati, L. Chrpa, D. Kitchin, How to Plan Roadworks in Urban Regions? A Principled Approach Based on AI Planning, In Proceedings of The International Conference on Computational Science (ICCS-19), 2019.
L. Chrpa, M. Vallati, S. Parkinson, Exploiting Automated Planning for Efficient Centralized Vehicle Routing and Mitigating Congestion in Urban Road Networks, In Proceedings of The 34th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC-19), 2019.
2018
S. Franco, A. Lindsay, M. Vallati, T.L. McCluskey, An Innovative Heuristic for Planning-based Urban Traffic Control, In Proceedings of The International Conference on Computational Science (ICCS-18), 2018.
M. Vallati, L. Chrpa, A Principled Analysis of the Interrelation Between Vehicular Communication and Reasoning Capabilities of Autonomous Vehicles, In Proceedings of The 21st IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC-18), 2018.
2017
T.L. McCluskey, M. Vallati, Embedding Automated Planning within Urban Traffic Management Operations, In Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS-17), 2017.
2016
L. Chrpa, D. Magazzeni, K. McCabe, T.L. McCluskey, M. Vallati, Automated Planning for Urban Traffic Control: Strategic Vehicle Routing to Respect Air Quality Limitations, Intelligenza Artificiale, 10(2), 113-128, 2016.
M. Vallati, D. Magazzeni, B. De Schutter, L. Chrpa, T.L. McCluskey, Efficient Macroscopic Urban Traffic Models for Reducing Congestion: a PDDL+ Planning Approach, In Proceedings of the Thirtieth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-16 ), 2016.
L.Chrpa, M. Vallati, On the Exploitation of Automated Planning for Efficient Decision Making in Road Traffic Accident Management, In Proceedings of the 55th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC-16), 2016.