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The cooperative control of the connected and automated vehicle (CAV) is recognized as an effective approach to alleviate traffic congestion and improve traffic safety, especially for on-ramp bottlenecks. However, in the mixed traffic, the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-02 Haoji Liu , Weichao Zhuang , Guodong Yin , Rongcan Li , Chang Liu , Shanxing Zhou

Facing the congestion challenges of mixed road networks comprising expressways and arterial road networks, traditional control solutions fall short. To effectively alleviate traffic congestion in mixed road networks, it is crucial to clear…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-13 Yunran Di , Haotian Shi , Weihua Zhang , Heng Ding , Xiaoyan Zheng , Bin Ran

On-ramp merging is a challenging task for autonomous vehicles (AVs), especially in mixed traffic where AVs coexist with human-driven vehicles (HDVs). In this paper, we formulate the mixed-traffic highway on-ramp merging problem as a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-08 Dong Chen , Mohammad Hajidavalloo , Zhaojian Li , Kaian Chen , Yongqiang Wang , Longsheng Jiang , Yue Wang

Effective traffic control methods have great potential in alleviating network congestion. Existing literature generally focuses on a single control approach, while few studies have explored the effectiveness of integrated and coordinated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-08 Zijian Hu , Wei Ma

The effective design of patrol strategies is a difficult and complex problem, especially in medium and large areas. The objective is to plan, in a coordinated manner, the optimal routes for a set of patrols in a given area, in order to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Juan Palma-Borda , Eduardo Guzmán , María-Victoria Belmonte

Ramp merging is a critical and challenging task for autonomous vehicles (AVs), particularly in mixed traffic environments with human-driven vehicles (HVs). Existing approaches typically rely on either lane-changing or inter-vehicle gap…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Yassine Ibork , Myounggyu Won , Lokesh Das

This paper uses supervised learning, random search and deep reinforcement learning (DRL) methods to control large signalized intersection networks. The traffic model is Cellular Automaton rule 184, which has been shown to be a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-04-07 Jorge A. Laval , Hao Zhou

This paper presents the optimal-control suggestion for congestion on freeways using data assimilation (DA) of distributed fiber-optic sensing (DFOS). To simultaneously maximize throughput and avoid/mitigate congestion, it is necessary to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-30 Yoshiyuki Yajima , Hemant Prasad , Daisuke Ikefuji , Takemasa Suzuki , Shin Tominaga , Hitoshi Sakurai , Manabu Otani

Over the years, reinforcement learning has emerged as a popular approach to develop signal control and vehicle platooning strategies either independently or in a hierarchical way. However, jointly controlling both in real-time to alleviate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Xianyue Peng , Shenyang Chen , Hang Gao , Hao Wang , H. Michael Zhang

We propose a macroscopic traffic network flow model suitable for analysis as a dynamical system, and we qualitatively analyze equilibrium flows as well as convergence. Flows at a junction are determined by downstream supply of capacity as…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-05-25 Samuel Coogan , Murat Arcak

Intelligent transportation systems require connected and automated vehicles (CAVs) to conduct safe and efficient cooperation with human-driven vehicles (HVs) in complex real-world traffic environments. However, the inherent unpredictability…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Jie Pan , Tianyi Wang , Christian Claudel , Jing Shi

Collisions, crashes, and other incidents on road networks, if left unmitigated, can potentially cause cascading failures that can affect large parts of the system. Timely handling such extreme congestion scenarios is imperative to reduce…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Ashutosh Dutta , Milan Jain , Arif Khan , Arun Sathanur

Ramp metering is one of the most effective tools to combat traffic congestion. In this paper, we present a ramp metering policy for a network of freeways with arbitrary number of on- and off-ramps, merge, and diverge junctions. The proposed…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-14 Milad Pooladsanj , Ketan Savla , Petros A. Ioannou

In the freeway network control (FNC) problem, the operation of a traffic network is optimized using only flow control. For special cases of the FNC problem, in particular the case when all merging flows are controlled, there exist tight…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-03-30 Marius Schmitt , John Lygeros

Cooperative intelligent freeway traffic control is an important application in intelligent transportation systems, which is expected to improve the mobility of freeway networks. In this paper, we propose a deep neuroevolution model, called…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2019-05-13 Yuankai Wu , Huachun Tan , Zhuxi Jiang , Bin Ran

The recent advancements in wireless technology enable connected autonomous vehicles (CAVs) to gather information about their environment by vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communication. In this work, we design an information-sharing-based…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Songyang Han , Shanglin Zhou , Jiangwei Wang , Lynn Pepin , Caiwen Ding , Jie Fu , Fei Miao

Rapid urbanization in cities like Bangalore has led to severe traffic congestion, making efficient Traffic Signal Control (TSC) essential. Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL), often modeling each traffic signal as an independent agent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Sayambhu Sen , Shalabh Bhatnagar

Traffic congestion in metropolitan areas is a world-wide problem that can be ameliorated by traffic lights that respond dynamically to real-time conditions. Recent studies applying deep reinforcement learning (RL) to optimize single traffic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-10 Zhi Zhang , Jiachen Yang , Hongyuan Zha

Vehicle collisions remain a major challenge in large-scale mixed traffic systems, especially when human-driven vehicles (HVs) and robotic vehicles (RVs) interact under dynamic and uncertain conditions. Although Multi-Agent Reinforcement…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Muyang Fan

Arterial traffic interacts with freeway traffic, yet the two are controlled independently. Arterial traffic signals do not take into account freeway traffic and how ramps control ingress traffic and have no control over egress traffic from…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-10 Tianchen Yuan , Petros A. Ioannou