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Throughput Optimal Distributed Traffic Signal Control

Systems and Control 2014-07-07 v1

Abstract

We propose a distributed algorithm for controlling traffic signals, allowing constraints such as periodic switching sequences of phases and minimum and maximum green time to be incorporated. Our algorithm is adapted from backpressure routing, which has been mainly applied to communication and power networks. We formally prove that our algorithm ensures global optimality as it leads to maximum network throughput even though the controller is constructed and implemented in a completely distributed manner.

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@article{arxiv.1407.1164,
  title  = {Throughput Optimal Distributed Traffic Signal Control},
  author = {Tichakorn Wongpiromsarn and Tawit Uthaicharoenpong and Emilio Frazzoli and Yu Wang and Danwei Wang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1407.1164},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1205.5938

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