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Connected vehicles will change the modes of future transportation management and organization, especially at an intersection without traffic light. Centralized coordination methods globally coordinate vehicles approaching the intersection…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-12 Yang Guan , Yangang Ren , Shengbo Eben Li , Qi Sun , Laiquan Luo , Keqiang Li

The core of the freeway merging control problem lies in dynamic queue propagation and dissipation linked to merging vehicle behavior. Traditionally, queuing is modeled through demand-supply interactions with time varying demand and fixed…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Qing Tang , Xianbiao Hu

Traffic interactions between merging and highway vehicles are a major topic of research, yielding many empirical studies and models of driver behaviour. Most of these studies on merging use naturalistic data. Although this provides insight…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-08-10 Olger Siebinga , Arkady Zgonnikov , David A. Abbink

Ramp merging is one of the bottlenecks in traffic systems, which commonly cause traffic congestion, accidents, and severe carbon emissions. In order to address this essential issue and enhance the safety and efficiency of connected and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Senkang Hu , Zhengru Fang , Zihan Fang , Yiqin Deng , Xianhao Chen , Yuguang Fang , Sam Kwong

On-ramp merging areas are deemed to be typical bottlenecks for freeway networks due to the intensive disturbances induced by the frequent merging, weaving, and lane-changing behaviors. The Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CAVs), benefited…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-22 Jie Zhu , Ivana Tasic , Xiaobo Qu

In this letter, we present an approach for learning human driving behavior, without relying on specific model structures or prior distributions, in a mixed-traffic environment where connected and automated vehicles (CAVs) coexist with…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-12 Heeseung Bang , Aditya Dave , Andreas A. Malikopoulos

Merging into the highway from the on-ramp is an essential scenario for automated driving. The decision-making under the scenario needs to balance the safety and efficiency performance to optimize a long-term objective, which is challenging…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Yiting Kong , Yang Guan , Jingliang Duan , Shengbo Eben Li , Qi Sun , Bingbing Nie

Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) has a great potential for solving complex decision-making problems in autonomous driving, especially in mixed-traffic scenarios where autonomous vehicles and human-driven vehicles (HDVs) drive together.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Qianqian Liu , Fengying Dang , Xiaofan Wang , Xiaoqiang Ren

Applying reinforcement learning to autonomous driving has garnered widespread attention. However, classical reinforcement learning methods optimize policies by maximizing expected rewards but lack sufficient safety considerations, often…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Bo Leng , Ran Yu , Wei Han , Lu Xiong , Zhuoren Li , Hailong Huang

Autonomous agents that drive on roads shared with human drivers must reason about the nuanced interactions among traffic participants. This poses a highly challenging decision making problem since human behavior is influenced by a multitude…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-30 Salar Arbabi , Davide Tavernini , Saber Fallah , Richard Bowden

Connected automated driving has the potential to significantly improve urban traffic efficiency, e.g., by alleviating issues due to occlusion. Cooperative behavior planning can be employed to jointly optimize the motion of multiple…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-07-31 Marvin Klimke , Benjamin Völz , Michael Buchholz

Given the aging infrastructure and the anticipated growing number of highway work zones in the United States, it is important to investigate work zone merge control, which is critical for improving work zone safety and capacity. This paper…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-24 Tianzhu Ren , Yuanchang Xie , Liming Jiang

Mixed traffic flow consisting of vehicles equipped with adaptive cruise control (ACC) and manually driven vehicles is analyzed using car-following simulations. Unlike simulations that show suppression of jams due to increased string…

Computational Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 L. C. Davis

Ramp merging is considered as one of the major causes of traffic congestion and accidents because of its chaotic nature. With the development of connected and automated vehicle (CAV) technology, cooperative ramp merging has become one of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-28 Xishun Liao , Xuanpeng Zhao , Guoyuan Wu , Matthew Barth , Ziran Wang , Kyungtae Han , Prashant Tiwari

Lane changes are complex safety and throughput critical driver actions. Most lane changing models deal with lane-changing maneuvers solely from the merging driver's standpoint and thus ignore driver interaction. To overcome this…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-08-11 Kyungwon Kang , Hesham A Rakha

Connected and automated vehicles (CAVs) have attracted more and more attention recently. The fast actuation time allows them having the potential to promote the efficiency and safety of the whole transportation system. Due to technical…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-10-26 Tianyu Shi , Jiawei Wang , Yuankai Wu , Luis Miranda-Moreno , Lijun Sun

The integration of autonomous vehicles (AVs) into the existing transportation infrastructure offers a promising solution to alleviate congestion and enhance mobility. This research explores a novel approach to traffic optimization by…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Lu Liu , Maonan Wang , Man-On Pun , Xi Xiong

To address the safety and efficiency issues of vehicles at multi-lane merging zones, a cooperative decision-making framework is designed for connected automated vehicles (CAVs) using a coalitional game approach. Firstly, a motion prediction…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-16 Peng Hang , Chen Lv , Chao Huang , Yang Xing , Zhongxu Hu

Traffic congestion remains a significant challenge in modern urban networks. Autonomous driving technologies have emerged as a potential solution. Among traffic control methods, reinforcement learning has shown superior performance over…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Songyang Liu , Muyang Fan , Weizi Li , Jing Du , Shuai Li

Humans make daily routine decisions based on their internal states in intricate interaction scenarios. This paper presents a probabilistically reconstructive learning approach to identify the internal states of multi-vehicle sequential…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Huanjie Wang , Wenshuo Wang , Shihua Yuan , Xueyuan Li