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Traffic control optimization is a challenging task for various traffic centers around the world and the majority of existing approaches focus only on developing adaptive methods under normal (recurrent) traffic conditions. Optimizing the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Tuo Mao , Adriana-Simona Mihaita , Fang Chen , Hai L. Vu

In this paper, we present a cyclically time-expanded network model for simultaneous optimization of traffic assignment and traffic signal parameters, in particular offsets, split times, and phase orders. Since travel times are of great…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2015-09-30 Ekkehard Köhler , Martin Strehler

Learning-based traffic signal control is typically optimized for average performance under a few nominal demand patterns, which can result in poor behavior under atypical traffic conditions. To address this, we develop a distributionally…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-23 Shuwei Pei , Joran Borger , Arda Kosay , Muhammed O. Sayin , Saeed Ahmed

We study efficient and exact shortest path algorithms for routing on road networks with realistic traffic data. For navigation applications, both current (i.e., live) traffic events and predictions of future traffic flows play an important…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-09-21 Nils Werner , Tim Zeitz

Setting traffic light signals is a classical topic in traffic engineering, and important in heavy-traffic conditions when green times become scarce and longer queues are inevitably formed. For the fixed-cycle traffic-light queue, an…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-08-12 Marko Boon , Guido Janssen , Johan van Leeuwaarden , Rik Timmerman

We study the impact of global traffic light control strategies in a recently proposed cellular automaton model for vehicular traffic in city networks. The model combines basic ideas of the Biham-Middleton-Levine model for city traffic and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Elmar Brockfeld , Robert Barlovic , Andreas Schadschneider , Michael Schreckenberg

A car driver knows how to react on the gestures of the traffic officers. Clearly, this is not the case for the autonomous vehicle, unless it has road traffic control gesture recognition functionalities. In this work, we address the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-03 Julian Wiederer , Arij Bouazizi , Ulrich Kressel , Vasileios Belagiannis

The rapid digitalization of urban infrastructure opens the path to smart cities, where IoT-enabled infrastructure enhances public safety and efficiency. This paper presents a 6G and AI-enabled framework for traffic safety enhancement,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Kurt Horvath , Dragi Kimovski , Stojan Kitanov , Radu Prodan

Transportation is a major contributor to CO2 emissions, making it essential to optimize traffic networks to reduce energy-related emissions. This paper presents a novel approach to traffic network control using Differentiable Predictive…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-18 Renukanandan Tumu , Wenceslao Shaw Cortez , Ján Drgoňa , Draguna L. Vrabie , Sonja Glavaski

Up-to-date information wirelessly communicated among vehicles can be used to select the optimal route between a given origin and destination. To elucidate how to make use of such information, simulations are performed for autonomous…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-04-05 L. C. Davis

In intelligent transportation systems (ITS), adaptive transit signal priority (TSP) and dynamic bus control systems have been independently developed to maintain efficient and reliable urban bus services. However, those two systems could…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-12 Shurui Guan , Keqiang Li , Haoyu Yang , Yihe Chen , Hanxiao Ren , Yugong Luo

Hybrid traffic which involves both autonomous and human-driven vehicles would be the norm of the autonomous vehicles practice for a while. On the one hand, unlike autonomous vehicles, human-driven vehicles could exhibit sudden abnormal…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-02 Jiangwei Wang , Lili Su , Songyang Han , Dongjin Song , Fei Miao

The ability to predict the future movements of other vehicles is a subconscious and effortless skill for humans and key to safe autonomous driving. Therefore, trajectory prediction for autonomous cars has gained a lot of attention in recent…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-09-16 Benedikt Mersch , Thomas Höllen , Kun Zhao , Cyrill Stachniss , Ribana Roscher

Partially Detected Intelligent Traffic Signal Control (PD-ITSC) systems that can optimize traffic signals based on limited detected information could be a cost-efficient solution for mitigating traffic congestion in the future. In this…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-25 Rusheng Zhang , Romain Leteurtre , Benjamin Striner , Ammar Alanazi , Abdullah Alghafis , Ozan K. Tonguz

Complex urban road networks with high vehicle occupancy frequently face severe traffic congestion. Designing an effective strategy for managing multiple traffic lights plays a crucial role in managing congestion. However, most current…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-15 Taeyoung Yun , Kanghoon Lee , Sujin Yun , Ilmyung Kim , Won-Woo Jung , Min-Cheol Kwon , Kyujin Choi , Yoohyeon Lee , Jinkyoo Park

Future trajectories of neighboring traffic agents have a significant influence on the path planning and decision-making of autonomous vehicles. While trajectory forecasting is a well-studied field, research mainly focuses on snapshot-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Alexander Prutsch , David Schinagl , Horst Possegger

Coordination in traffic signal control is crucial for managing congestion in urban networks. Existing pressure-based control methods focus only on immediate upstream links, leading to suboptimal green time allocation and increased network…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-20 Xiaocan Li , Xiaoyu Wang , Ilia Smirnov , Scott Sanner , Baher Abdulhai

Adaptive traffic signal control is one key avenue for mitigating the growing consequences of traffic congestion. Incumbent solutions such as SCOOT and SCATS require regular and time-consuming calibration, can't optimise well for multiple…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-05-03 Alvaro Cabrejas-Egea , Shaun Howell , Maksis Knutins , Colm Connaughton

As a result of significant advances in deep learning, computer vision technology has been widely adopted in the field of traffic surveillance. Nonetheless, it is difficult to find a universal model that can measure traffic parameters…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-25 Seungyun Jeong , Keemin Sohn

Traffic congestion is an increasing problem in most cities around the world. It impacts businesses as well as commuters, small cities and large ones in developing as well as developed economies. One approach to decrease urban traffic…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-03-12 Esteban Ricalde