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    • Figure 1. 

      Video grayscale processing.

    • Figure 2. 

      Vehicle dynamics identification process.

    • Figure 3. 

      Diagram of perspective transformation.

    • Figure 4. 

      Traffic flow and vehicle speed outlier detection.

    • Figure 5. 

      Traffic flow, average vehicle speed, and density time series chart.

    • Figure 6. 

      Traffic volume and average Vehicle speed forecast results.

    • Figure 7. 

      Comparison of the time-varying characteristics of predicted and actual traffic flow.

    • Figure 8. 

      Observed vs predicted scatter plots for traffic flow and average speed.

    • Figure 9. 

      Traffic density trend prediction chart.

    • Figure 10. 

      Flow-density relationship diagram for each observation point. (a) Observation Point 1. (b) Observation Point 2. (c) Observation Point 3. (d) Observation Point 4.

    • Figure 11. 

      Comparison of the traffic congestion index before and after the activation of emergency lanes at each observation point. (a) Observation Point 1. (b) Observation Point 2. (c) Observation Point 3. (d) Observation Point 4.

    • ModuleParameterValueModuleParameterValue
      YOLOv8Input image size640 × 640DeepSORTMinimum detection confidence0.3
      YOLOv8Confidence threshold0.3DeepSORTMaximum cosine distance0.2
      YOLOv8IoU threshold0.5DeepSORTMaximum IoU matching distance0.7
      YOLOv8Maximum number of detections100DeepSORTMaximum age30
      YOLOv8Detection classesCar, bus, truckDeepSORTFeature gallery size100

      Table 1. 

      The YOLOv8 and DeepSORT parameter settings.

    • Predicted data MAE MSE MAPE R2
      Traffic flow 0.4214 0.4638 2.11% 0.968
      Average speed 1.2341 1.6332 1.37% 0.973

      Table 2. 

      Traffic flow prediction model evaluation metric results.

    • Observation point Average congestion index reduction
      Observation Point 1 10.44%
      Observation Point 2 11.23%
      Observation Point 3 9.56%
      Observation Point 4 8.22%

      Table 3. 

      Average congestion index reduction at observation points after proactive HSR activation.