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Many existing traffic signal controllers are either simple adaptive controllers based on sensors placed around traffic intersections, or optimized by traffic engineers on a fixed schedule. Optimizing traffic controllers is time consuming…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-15 Kai Liang Tan , Subhadipto Poddar , Anuj Sharma , Soumik Sarkar

Detecting, predicting, and alleviating traffic congestion are targeted at improving the level of service of the transportation network. With increasing access to larger datasets of higher resolution, the relevance of deep learning for such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-03 Nishant Kumar , Martin Raubal

Traffic flow prediction is an important research issue to avoid traffic congestion in transportation systems. Traffic congestion avoiding can be achieved by knowing traffic flow and then conducting transportation planning. Achieving traffic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-10-05 Yuanfang Chen , Falin Chen , Yizhi Ren , Ting Wu , Ye Yao

This paper introduces a self-organizing traffic signal system for an urban road network. The key elements of this system are agents that control traffic signals at intersections. Each agent uses an interval microscopic traffic model to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-06-05 Bartlomiej Placzek

Robots that navigate among pedestrians use collision avoidance algorithms to enable safe and efficient operation. Recent works present deep reinforcement learning as a framework to model the complex interactions and cooperation. However,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-05-08 Michael Everett , Yu Fan Chen , Jonathan P. How

Solving complex problems requires continuous effort in developing theory and practice to cope with larger, more difficult scenarios. Working with surrogates is normal for creating a proxy that realistically models the problem into the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Tomohiro Harada , Enrique Alba , Gabriel Luque

Today's fixed-cycle traffic signaling is highly suboptimal and aggravates traffic congestion and waste of energy in urban areas. In addition, it offers no quality-of-service guarantee and makes travel time prediction extremely hard. While…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-05-17 Lei Miao , Lijian Xu

Distributed optimization enables networked agents to cooperatively solve a global optimization problem even with each participating agent only having access to a local partial view of the objective function. Despite making significant…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-04 Yongqiang Wang , Tamer Başar

Computer vision applications in intelligent transportation systems (ITS) and autonomous driving (AD) have gravitated towards deep neural network architectures in recent years. While performance seems to be improving on benchmark datasets,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-11 Talha Azfar , Jinlong Li , Hongkai Yu , Ruey Long Cheu , Yisheng Lv , Ruimin Ke

Generative Diffusion Models (GDMs), have made significant strides in modeling complex data distributions across diverse domains. Meanwhile, Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) has demonstrated substantial improvements in optimizing Wi-Fi…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-01-08 Tie Liu , Xuming Fang , Rong He

Traffic signal control has long been considered as a critical topic in intelligent transportation systems. Most existing learning methods mainly focus on isolated intersections and suffer from inefficient training. This paper aims at the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-01 Yusen Huo , Qinghua Tao , Jianming Hu

This paper will contribute to a practical problem, Urban Traffic. We will investigate those features, try to simplify the complexity and formulize this dynamic system. These contents mainly contain how to analyze a decision problem with…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-09-17 Yong Tan

Reinforcement learning (RL) has achieved remarkable success in a wide range of control and decision-making tasks. However, RL agents often exhibit unstable or degraded performance when deployed in environments subject to unexpected external…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Taeho Lee , Donghwan Lee

The development of autonomous vehicles has shown great potential to enhance the efficiency and safety of transportation systems. However, the decision-making issue in complex human-machine mixed traffic scenarios, such as unsignalized…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Jiaqi Liu , Peng Hang , Xiaoxiang Na , Chao Huang , Jian Sun

Distributed optimization finds applications in large-scale machine learning, data processing and classification over multi-agent networks. In real-world scenarios, the communication network of agents may encounter latency that may affect…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-06 Mohammadreza Doostmohammadian , Narahari Kasagatta Ramesh , Alireza Aghasi

Due to the sparse rewards and high degree of environment variation, reinforcement learning approaches such as Deep Deterministic Policy Gradient (DDPG) are plagued by issues of high variance when applied in complex real world environments.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-11-28 Linhai Xie , Yishu Miao , Sen Wang , Phil Blunsom , Zhihua Wang , Changhao Chen , Andrew Markham , Niki Trigoni

Intersections are quite challenging among various driving scenes wherein the interaction of signal lights and distinct traffic actors poses great difficulty to learn a wise and robust driving policy. Current research rarely considers the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Yangang Ren , Guojian Zhan , Liye Tang , Shengbo Eben Li , Jianhua Jiang , Jingliang Duan

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

Traffic congestion at intersections is a significant issue in urban areas, leading to increased commute times, safety hazards, and operational inefficiencies. This study aims to develop a predictive model for congestion at intersections in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-28 Tara Kelly , Jessica Gupta

Traffic simulators are important tools in autonomous driving development. While continuous progress has been made to provide developers more options for modeling various traffic participants, tuning these models to increase their behavioral…