arXiv:2607. 20505v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Surrogate safety measures (SSMs) enable proactive traffic safety assessment, but many existing methods evaluate pairwise interactions independently or flatten multi-agent scenes into fixed feature vectors, limiting their ability to represent heterogeneous interaction structure and evolving scene-level risk.
arXiv:2606. 27577v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This paper formulates frame-level freeway risk assessment as a multi-agent scene graph-level binary classification problem, where each video or trajectory frame is labeled risky if any TTC- or PET-based conflict violates a specified severity threshold.
arXiv:2607. 09740v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Safe motion planning in advanced driver-assistance systems and autonomous vehicles requires an accurate understanding of how the surrounding traffic scene is likely to evolve.
arXiv:2607. 16156v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Urban intersections are among the most hazardous locations in road networks, posing significant risks to vehicles and vulnerable road users (VRUs) such as pedestrians and cyclists.
TrajFusionNet+ is a transformer-based model that predicts pedestrian crossing intention by fusing sequential trajectory data, visual trajectory overlays, and graph-based scene context. It extends the earlier TrajFusionNet with three attention modules—Sequence, Visual, and Graph—to capture temporal, visual, and relational cues. The model outperforms state‑of‑the‑art methods on the PIE and JAAD datasets and shows better generalization under a joint‑training, separate‑evaluation protocol.
PRISM (Proactive Risk Intelligence and Safety Management) is an agentic multi-model architecture designed to shift autonomous transportation safety from reactive crash avoidance to proactive, continuous risk management. It uses inverse crash‑probability modeling to transform binary crash classifiers into dynamic safety scores, and runs three specialized models—trajectory kinematics, environmental risk, and VRU interaction—coordinated by a reinforcement‑learning reasoning layer. Across 1,296 naturalistic driving scenarios, PRISM achieved a mean safety score of 68/100, classified 77.6% of situations as advisory, and flagged 3.8% as near‑misses, with 11% requiring intervention or emergency response, highlighting trajectory risk and VRU proximity as key safety factors.
arXiv:2512. 15503v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Vehicular platooning promises transformative improvements in transportation efficiency and safety through the coordination of multi-vehicle formations enabled by Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) communication.
The paper introduces a safety‑oriented pedestrian trajectory prediction framework for urban intersections that fuses pedestrian motion history with Time‑to‑Collision (TTC) data and crossing‑zone context. Using the inD dataset, a pooled LSTM architecture encodes TTC and context separately before integrating them with pedestrian positions, and a weighted loss emphasizes large errors. The approach reduces average displacement error (ADE) and final displacement error (FDE) and significantly lowers the frequency of errors exceeding a 1 m tolerance compared to a position‑only model.
arXiv:2606. 15749v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Traffic scene understanding requires models to reason beyond object recognition, including lane topology, multi-view geometry, temporal evolution, and signal-phase semantics.
The paper presents an end‑to‑end system that converts driving footage into dynamic vision sensor (DVS) event streams, augments training with simulated DVS data, and trains a convolutional spiking neural network (Conv‑SNN) to classify pedestrian crossing intent as crossing or non‑crossing. The Conv‑SNN, trained with a class‑balanced loss and surrogate‑gradient learning, achieves high accuracy and F1 scores on JAAD and CARLA DVS datasets, outperforming or matching prior frame‑based methods while operating on sparse temporal representations. The study details architectural choices, neuron dynamics, and training protocols, and provides a convergence analysis and domain‑transfer evaluation.
arXiv:2609.36934v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Traffic signal control (TSC) is essential for improving urban mobility and reducing congestion. Although roadside cameras are widely deployed at signal...
arXiv:2607. 03703v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement Learning (RL) has emerged as a powerful paradigm for adaptive traffic signal control.
The paper introduces a new criticality metric specifically designed for vulnerable road users (VRUs) and a scenario‑independent prediction framework that applies to all traffic participants. The VRU‑centric metric improves pedestrian criticality classification by up to 50 %, while the prediction framework surpasses state‑of‑the‑art metrics by 275 %, achieving an F1‑score of 0.96 on the DeepAccident dataset. These advances enable more accurate, scenario‑agnostic safety assessments for autonomous driving systems.