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preprint2026arXiv

From Lagging to Leading: Validating Hard Braking Events as High-Density Indicators of Segment Crash Risk

Identifying high crash risk road segments and accurately predicting crash incidence is fundamental to implementing effective safety countermeasures. While collision data inherently reflects risk, the infrequency and inconsistent reporting of crashes present a major challenge to robust risk prediction models. The proliferation of connected vehicle technology offers a promising avenue to leverage high-density safety metrics for enhanced crash forecasting. A Hard-Braking Event (HBE), interpreted as an evasive maneuver, functions as a potent proxy for elevated driving risk due to its demonstrable correlation with underlying crash causal factors. Crucially, HBE data is significantly more readily available across the entire road network than conventional collision records. This study systematically evaluated the correlation at individual road segment level between police-reported collisions and aggregated and anonymized HBEs identified via the Google Android Auto platform, utilizing datasets from California and Virginia. Empirical evidence revealed that HBEs occur at a rate magnitudes higher than traffic crashes. Employing the state-of-the-practice Negative-Binomial regression models, the analysis established a statistically significant positive correlation between the HBE rate and the crash rate: road segments exhibiting a higher frequency of HBEs were consistently associated with a greater incidence of crashes. This sophisticated model incorporated and controlled for various confounding factors, including road type, speed profile, proximity to ramps, and road segment slope. The HBEs derived from connected vehicle technology thus provide a scalable, high-density safety surrogate metric for network-wide traffic safety assessment, with the potential to optimize safer routing recommendations and inform the strategic deployment of active safety countermeasures.

preprint2026arXiv

S2Vec: Self-Supervised Geospatial Embeddings for the Built Environment

Scalable general-purpose representations of the built environment are crucial for geospatial artificial intelligence applications. This paper introduces S2Vec, a novel self-supervised framework for learning such geospatial embeddings. S2Vec uses the S2 Geometry library to partition large areas into discrete S2 cells, rasterizes built environment feature vectors within cells as images, and applies masked autoencoding on these rasterized images to encode the feature vectors. This approach yields task-agnostic embeddings that capture local feature characteristics and broader spatial relationships. We evaluate S2Vec on several large-scale geospatial prediction tasks, both random train/test splits (interpolation) and zero-shot geographic adaptation (extrapolation). Our experiments show S2Vec's competitive performance against several baselines on socioeconomic tasks, especially the geographic adaptation variant, with room for improvement on environmental tasks. We also explore combining S2Vec embeddings with image-based embeddings downstream, showing that such multimodal fusion can often improve performance. Our findings highlight how S2Vec can learn effective general-purpose geospatial representations of the built environment features it is provided, and how it can complement other data modalities in geospatial artificial intelligence.

preprint2026arXiv

TRAJGANR: Trajectory-Centric Urban Multimodal Learning via Geospatially Aligned Neural Representations

Multimodal self-supervised learning (MSSL) has emerged as a key paradigm for pretraining geospatial foundation models. However, existing geospatial MSSL methods are mainly designed for static pairs of modalities, such as satellite imagery, street-view imagery, and text, where learning is driven by aligning observations from the same or nearby locations. This assumption breaks down for human mobility trajectories, which represent continuous movement along paths rather than discrete observations at individual locations. Although trajectories are important for urban understanding through their ability to capture human activity across roads, neighborhoods, and places over time, they remain largely underexplored in current geospatial MSSL frameworks. We present TrajGANR, a novel trajectory-centric geospatial MSSL framework that aligns continuous movement patterns with static, location-based observations. TrajGANR learns a continuous neural representation of trajectories at arbitrary points along each path, which enables fine-grained alignment with nearby street-view images, even when they are not co-located with any trajectory waypoints. We leverage this capability to introduce an MSSL objective that jointly aligns three modalities: trajectories, street-view images, and their geographic locations. We evaluate TrajGANR on four urban mobility and road understanding tasks. Across these tasks, TrajGANR consistently outperforms existing geospatial MSSL frameworks and a trajectory-specific foundation model. Ablation studies further demonstrate that our proposed MSSL objective and the multimodal learning framework are the primary drivers of these improvements, highlighting the importance of fine-grained geospatial alignment over coarser aggregation, as well as geospatial multimodal learning.

preprint2022arXiv

Multisecret-sharing scheme with two-level security and its applications in Blockchain

A $(t,m)$-threshold secret sharing and multisecret-sharing scheme based on Shamir's SSS are introduced with two-level security using a one-way function. Besides we give its application in smart contract-enabled consortium blockchain network. The proposed scheme is thoroughly examined in terms of security and efficiency. Privacy, security, integrity, and scalability are also analyzed while applying it to the blockchain network.

preprint2010arXiv

An Ant Based Framework for Preventing DDoS Attack in Wireless Sensor Networks

Security and Privacy are two important parameters that need to be considered when dealing with wireless sensor networks as WSN operate in an unattended environment and carry sensitive information critical to the application. However, applying security techniques that consume minimum resources is still a challenge and this paper makes an attempt to address the same. One of the major attacks in sensor network is denial of service attack that not only diminishes the network capacity but also affects the reliability of information being transmitted. This work is an extension of our previous work which could successfully detect DDoS using ants. However, no emphasis was made towards the prevention mechanism. In this paper an ant-based framework that exploits the significance of stateless and stateful signatures and hence preserving the legtimate packets only, thereby discarding the contaminated packets has been proposed.