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Applications of artificial intelligence in transport: An overview

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Abduljabbar, Rusul, Dia, Hussein, Liyanage, Sohani, Bagloee, Saeed Asadi·2019·Sustainability

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The rapid pace of developments in Artificial Intelligence (AI) is providing unprecedented opportunities to enhance the performance of different industries and businesses, including the transport sector. The innovations introduced by AI include highly advanced computational methods that mimic the way the human brain works. The application of AI in the transport field is aimed at overcoming the challenges of an increasing travel demand, CO2 emissions, safety concerns, and environmental degradation. In light of the availability of a huge amount of quantitative and qualitative data and AI in this digital age, addressing these concerns in a more efficient and effective fashion has become more plausible. Examples of AI methods that are finding their way to the transport field include Artificial Neural Networks (ANN), Genetic algorithms (GA), Simulated Annealing (SA), Artificial Immune system (AIS), Ant Colony Optimiser (ACO) and Bee Colony Optimization (BCO) and Fuzzy Logic Model (FLM) The successful application of AI requires a good understanding of the relationships between AI and data on one hand, and transportation system characteristics and variables on the other hand. Moreover, it is promising for transport authorities to determine the way to use these technologies to create a rapid improvement in relieving congestion, making travel time more reliable to their customers and improve the economics and productivity of their vital assets. This paper provides an overview of the AI techniques applied worldwide to address transportation problems mainly in traffic management, traffic safety, public transportation, and urban mobility. The overview concludes by addressing the challenges and limitations of AI applications in transport.

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Authors
Abduljabbar, R., Dia, H., Liyanage, S., & Bagloee, S. A.
Affiliations
Swinburne University of Technology (AU)
Corresponding author
  • Abduljabbar, Rusul
  • Dia, Hussein
Venue
Sustainability
Publisher
MDPI AG
Published
2019-01-02
Volume
11
Issue
1
Pages
189
ISSN
2071-1050 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2908162093
Cited by
769
References
138
Citations by year
2026: 72 · 2025: 164 · 2024: 165 · 2023: 150 · 2022: 97 · 2021: 67 · 2020: 41 · 2019: 13
FWCI
36.51
Type
journal article
Language
en
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  • Sustainability (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
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Funders
Swinburne University of Technology
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Engineering › Building and Construction › Traffic Prediction and Management Techniques
  • Physical Sciences › Engineering › Control and Systems Engineering › Traffic control and management
  • Physical Sciences › Engineering › Civil and Structural Engineering › Transportation Systems and Logistics
Keywords
artificial intelligence in transport, traffic management, road safety, public transport, urban mobility, traffic congestion, CO2 emissions, artificial neural networks, genetic algorithm, simulated annealing, artificial immune systems, ant colony optimization, bee colony optimization, fuzzy logic, travel time reliability

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