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This paper presents the results of a new deep learning model for traffic signal control. In this model, a novel state space approach is proposed to capture the main attributes of the control environment and the underlying temporal traffic…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-20 Matthew Muresan , Liping Fu , Guangyuan Pan

Recent advances in combining deep neural network architectures with reinforcement learning techniques have shown promising potential results in solving complex control problems with high dimensional state and action spaces. Inspired by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-05-30 Seyed Sajad Mousavi , Michael Schukat , Enda Howley

Adaptive traffic signal control, which adjusts traffic signal timing according to real-time traffic, has been shown to be an effective method to reduce traffic congestion. Available works on adaptive traffic signal control make responsive…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-05-09 Juntao Gao , Yulong Shen , Jia Liu , Minoru Ito , Norio Shiratori

Recently, Intelligent Transportation Systems are leveraging the power of increased sensory coverage and computing power to deliver data-intensive solutions achieving higher levels of performance than traditional systems. Within Traffic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-03 Alvaro Cabrejas-Egea , Raymond Zhang , Neil Walton

Traffic signal control is an emerging application scenario for reinforcement learning. Besides being as an important problem that affects people's daily life in commuting, traffic signal control poses its unique challenges for reinforcement…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2019-05-15 Huichu Zhang , Siyuan Feng , Chang Liu , Yaoyao Ding , Yichen Zhu , Zihan Zhou , Weinan Zhang , Yong Yu , Haiming Jin , Zhenhui Li

Ineffective and inflexible traffic signal control at urban intersections can often lead to bottlenecks in traffic flows and cause congestion, delay, and environmental problems. How to manage traffic smartly by intelligent signal control is…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-05-21 Mengyu Guo , Pin Wang , Ching-Yao Chan , Sid Askary

In this paper, methods have been explored to effectively optimise traffic signal control to minimise waiting times and queue lengths, thereby increasing traffic flow. The traffic intersection was first defined as a Markov Decision Process,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-29 Hrishit Chaudhuri , Vibha Masti , Vishruth Veerendranath , S Natarajan

Existing inefficient traffic light control causes numerous problems, such as long delay and waste of energy. To improve efficiency, taking real-time traffic information as an input and dynamically adjusting the traffic light duration…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-19 Xiaoyuan Liang , Xunsheng Du , Guiling Wang , Zhu Han

Efficient traffic signal control (TSC) is crucial for reducing congestion, travel delays, pollution, and for ensuring road safety. Traditional approaches, such as fixed signal control and actuated control, often struggle to handle dynamic…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-29 Anirud Nandakumar , Chayan Banerjee , Lelitha Devi Vanajakshi

The growing demand for road use in urban areas has led to significant traffic congestion, posing challenges that are costly to mitigate through infrastructure expansion alone. As an alternative, optimizing existing traffic management…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Muhammad Tahir Rafique , Ahmed Mustafa , Hasan Sajid

The transition from today's mostly human-driven traffic to a purely automated one will be a gradual evolution, with the effect that we will likely experience mixed traffic in the near future. Connected and automated vehicles can benefit…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-14 Shengchao Yan , Tim Welschehold , Daniel Büscher , Wolfram Burgard

As travel demand increases and urban traffic condition becomes more complicated, applying multi-agent deep reinforcement learning (MARL) to traffic signal control becomes one of the hot topics. The rise of Reinforcement Learning (RL) has…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Shijie Wang , Shangbo Wang

This study proposes a novel adaptive traffic signal control method leveraging a Deep Q-Network (DQN) and Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO) to optimize signal timing by integrating variable cell length and multi-channel state…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-16 Maojiang Deng , Shoufeng Lu , Jiazhao Shi , Wen Zhang

Traffic light control is important for reducing congestion in urban mobility systems. This paper proposes a real-time traffic light control method using deep Q learning. Our approach incorporates a reward function considering queue lengths,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Taoyu Pan

Model free reinforcement learning (RL) provides a potential alternative to earlier formulations of adaptive transit signal priority (TSP) algorithms based on mathematical programming that require complex and nonlinear objective functions.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-02 Dickness Kwesiga , Angshuman Guin , Michael Hunter

In this paper we design and evaluate a Deep-Reinforcement Learning agent that optimizes routing. Our agent adapts automatically to current traffic conditions and proposes tailored configurations that attempt to minimize the network delay.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-09-22 Giorgio Stampa , Marta Arias , David Sanchez-Charles , Victor Muntes-Mulero , Albert Cabellos

Navigating through intersections is one of the main challenging tasks for an autonomous vehicle. However, for the majority of intersections regulated by traffic lights, the problem could be solved by a simple rule-based method in which the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-05-04 Alessandro Paolo Capasso , Paolo Maramotti , Anthony Dell'Eva , Alberto Broggi

Traffic signal control has the potential to reduce congestion in dynamic networks. Recent studies show that traffic signal control with reinforcement learning (RL) methods can significantly reduce the average waiting time. However, a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-13 Maonan Wang , Yutong Xu , Xi Xiong , Yuheng Kan , Chengcheng Xu , Man-On Pun

Urban traffic congestion presents a significant challenge for modern cities, which impacts mobility and sustainability. Traditional traffic light control systems often fail to adapt to dynamic conditions, leading to inefficiencies. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Matteo Cederle , Giacomo Scatto , Gian Antonio Susto

Intelligent traffic signal controllers, applying DQN algorithms to traffic light policy optimization, efficiently reduce traffic congestion by adjusting traffic signals to real-time traffic. Most propositions in the literature however…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-30 Romain Ducrocq , Nadir Farhi
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