Michel Ferreira

2.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
50 papers, 1.9k citations indexed

About

Michel Ferreira is a scholar working on Automotive Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Control and Systems Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Michel Ferreira has authored 50 papers receiving a total of 1.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 21 papers in Automotive Engineering, 20 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 17 papers in Control and Systems Engineering. Recurrent topics in Michel Ferreira's work include Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANETs) (19 papers), Traffic control and management (17 papers) and Transportation Planning and Optimization (12 papers). Michel Ferreira is often cited by papers focused on Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANETs) (19 papers), Traffic control and management (17 papers) and Transportation Planning and Optimization (12 papers). Michel Ferreira collaborates with scholars based in Portugal, United States and Netherlands. Michel Ferreira's co-authors include Pedro M. d’Orey, Luı́s Damas, Luís Moreira-Matias, João Gama, João Mendes‐Moreira, Ricardo Fernandes, O.K. Tonguz, João Barros, Hugo Conceição and Mate Boban and has published in prestigious journals such as Physics Letters B, Expert Systems with Applications and IEEE Access.

In The Last Decade

Michel Ferreira

49 papers receiving 1.8k citations

Hit Papers

Predicting Taxi–Passenger Demand Using Streaming Data 2013 2026 2017 2021 2013 100 200 300 400 500
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Predicting Taxi–Passenger Demand Using Streaming Data
    2013 524 citations Luís Moreira-Matias, João Gama et al. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Michel Ferreira Portugal 18 788 740 681 650 435 50 1.9k
Marco Fiore Spain 35 792 1.0× 353 0.5× 2.5k 3.7× 394 0.6× 334 0.8× 155 4.1k
Guojiang Shen China 19 474 0.6× 131 0.2× 205 0.3× 616 0.9× 307 0.7× 116 1.6k
Xiaomei Zhao China 24 1.0k 1.3× 508 0.7× 240 0.4× 706 1.1× 1.1k 2.6× 95 1.8k
David Eckhoff Germany 18 224 0.3× 376 0.5× 919 1.3× 137 0.2× 366 0.8× 69 1.6k
Jun Luo China 20 402 0.5× 206 0.3× 123 0.2× 259 0.4× 121 0.3× 70 1.1k
Hamsa Balakrishnan United States 27 402 0.5× 345 0.5× 151 0.2× 179 0.3× 611 1.4× 142 2.7k
Xiaoying Gan China 24 260 0.3× 150 0.2× 812 1.2× 193 0.3× 82 0.2× 152 2.0k
Kunqing Xie China 16 781 1.0× 69 0.1× 131 0.2× 891 1.4× 518 1.2× 68 2.1k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Michel Ferreira

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Michel Ferreira

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Michel Ferreira. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Michel Ferreira based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Michel Ferreira. Michel Ferreira is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Miguéis, Vera, et al.. (2025). Efficiency assessment of taxi operations using data envelopment analysis. European Transport Research Review. 17(1).
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Loureiro, A.L.D., Vera Miguéis, Álvaro Costa, & Michel Ferreira. (2025). Improving customer retention in taxi industry using travel data analytics: A churn prediction study. Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services. 85. 104288–104288. 2 indexed citations
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Azevedo, José, Pedro M. d’Orey, & Michel Ferreira. (2020). High-Density Parking for Automated Vehicles: A Complete Evaluation of Coordination Mechanisms. IEEE Access. 8. 43944–43955. 9 indexed citations
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d’Orey, Pedro M., José Azevedo, & Michel Ferreira. (2017). Automated Planning and Control for High-Density Parking Lots. Proceedings of the International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling. 27. 367–372. 7 indexed citations
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Azevedo, José, Pedro M. d’Orey, & Michel Ferreira. (2016). On the mobile intelligence of autonomous vehicles. 6. 1169–1174. 3 indexed citations
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Moreira-Matias, Luís, João Mendes‐Moreira, Michel Ferreira, João Gama, & Luı́s Damas. (2014). An online learning framework for predicting the taxi stand's profitability. Portuguese National Funding Agency for Science, Research and Technology (RCAAP Project by FCT). 6. 2009–2014. 4 indexed citations
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Nunes, Rafael A. O., Luís Moreira-Matias, & Michel Ferreira. (2014). Using exit time predictions to optimize self automated parking lots. Open Repository of the University of Porto (University of Porto). 302–307. 11 indexed citations
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Ferreira, Michel, et al.. (2014). Consistency tests of the stability of fundamental couplings and unification scenarios. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology. 89(8). 20 indexed citations
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Fernandes, Ricardo, Fausto Vieira, & Michel Ferreira. (2013). Parallel microscopic simulation of metropolitan-scale traffic. Annual Simulation Symposium. 10. 2 indexed citations
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Vieira, Fausto, et al.. (2013). Sustainable highways with shadow tolls based on VANET advertising. 71–76. 1 indexed citations
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Ferreira, Michel, et al.. (2013). Augmented Reality driving supported by Vehicular Ad Hoc Networking. 253–254. 5 indexed citations
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Fernandes, Ricardo & Michel Ferreira. (2012). Scalable VANET Simulations with NS-3. 1–5. 15 indexed citations
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Moreira-Matias, Luís, Ricardo Fernandes, João Gama, et al.. (2012). An online recommendation system for the taxi stand choice problem (Poster). 6. 173–180. 11 indexed citations
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Vieira, Fausto, et al.. (2012). VNS: An integrated framework for vehicular networks simulation. 195–202. 19 indexed citations
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Ferreira, Michel, et al.. (2012). Probing unification scenarios with atomic clocks. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology. 86(12). 16 indexed citations
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Ferreira, Michel & Pedro M. d’Orey. (2011). On the Impact of Virtual Traffic Lights on Carbon Emissions Mitigation. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems. 13(1). 284–295. 109 indexed citations
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Ferreira, Michel, Ricardo Fernandes, Hugo Conceição, Wantanee Viriyasitavat, & O.K. Tonguz. (2010). Self-organized traffic control. 85–90. 153 indexed citations
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Ferreira, Michel, Hugo Conceição, Ricardo Fernandes, & O.K. Tonguz. (2009). Urban Connectivity Analysis of VANETs through Stereoscopic Aerial Photography. 1–3. 4 indexed citations
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Conceição, Hugo, Luı́s Damas, Michel Ferreira, & João Barros. (2008). Large-scale simulation of V2V environments. 28–33. 37 indexed citations

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