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Traffic congestion in dense urban centers presents an economical and environmental burden. In recent years, the availability of vehicle-to-anything communication allows for the transmission of detailed vehicle states to the infrastructure…

Adaptive traffic signal control plays a significant role in the construction of smart cities. This task is challenging because of many essential factors, such as cooperation among neighboring intersections and dynamic traffic scenarios.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Libing Wu , Min Wang , Dan Wu , Jia Wu

The traffic light control problem is to improve the traffic flow by coordinating between the traffic lights. Recently, a successful deep reinforcement learning model, CoLight, was developed to capture the influences of neighboring…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-02-24 Mersad Hassanjani , Farinaz Alamiyan-Harandi , Pouria Ramazi

Traffic signal control is a challenging real-world problem aiming to minimize overall travel time by coordinating vehicle movements at road intersections. Existing traffic signal control systems in use still rely heavily on oversimplified…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Chi-Chun Chao , Jun-Wei Hsieh , Bor-Shiun Wang

This paper considers optimal traffic signal control in smart cities, which has been taken as a complex networked system control problem. Given the interacting dynamics among traffic lights and road networks, attaining controller adaptivity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Yao Zhang , Zhiwen Yu , Jun Zhang , Liang Wang , Tom H. Luan , Bin Guo , Chau Yuen

Urban traffic is subject to disruptions that cause extended waiting time and safety issues at signalized intersections. While numerous studies have addressed the issue of intelligent traffic systems in the context of various disturbances,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-09-16 Qinchen Yang , Zejun Xie , Hua Wei , Desheng Zhang , Yu Yang

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

Vehicle-infrastructure communication opens up new ways to improve traffic flow efficiency at signalized intersections. In this study, we assume that equipped vehicles can obtain information about switching times of relevant traffic lights…

Physics and Society · Physics 2014-04-01 Martin Treiber , Arne Kesting

Traffic signal control plays a crucial role in urban mobility. However, existing methods often struggle to generalize beyond their training environments to unseen scenarios with varying traffic dynamics. We present TransferLight, a novel…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-12-25 Johann Schmidt , Frank Dreyer , Sayed Abid Hashimi , Sebastian Stober

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

Road intersections are widely recognized as a lead cause for accidents and traffic delays. In a future scenario with a significant adoption of Cooperative Autonomous Vehicles, solutions based on fully automatic, signage-less Intersection…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-09 Twan Keijzer , Fabian Jarmolowitz , Riccardo M. G. Ferrari

For automated driving, predicting the future trajectories of other road users in complex traffic situations is a hard problem. Modern neural networks use the past trajectories of traffic participants as well as map data to gather hints…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-02-12 Jan Strohbeck , Sebastian Maschke , Max Mertens , Michael Buchholz

Traffic forecasting is a significant part of intelligent transportation systems. One of the critical challenges of traffic forecasting is to find spatio-temporal correlations. In recent years, graph convolutional networks and graph…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Tianchi Zhang

Smart and decentralized control systems have recently been proposed to handle the growing traffic congestion in urban cities. Proposed smart traffic light solutions based on Wireless Sensor Network and Vehicular Ad-hoc NETwork are either…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2020-05-14 Willy Carlos Tchuitcheu , Christophe Bobda , Md Jubaer Hossain Pantho

This paper investigates traffic forecasting, which attempts to forecast the future state of traffic based on historical situations. This problem has received ever-increasing attention in various scenarios and facilitated the development of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Wei Ju , Yusheng Zhao , Yifang Qin , Siyu Yi , Jingyang Yuan , Zhiping Xiao , Xiao Luo , Xiting Yan , Ming Zhang

This paper develops a decentralized reinforcement learning (RL) scheme for multi-intersection adaptive traffic signal control (TSC), called "CVLight", that leverages data collected from connected vehicles (CVs). The state and reward design…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-04 Mobin Zhao , Wangzhi Li , Yongjie Fu , Kangrui Ruan , Xuan Di

Cooperative overtaking is believed to have the capability of improving road safety and traffic efficiency by means of the real-time information exchange between traffic participants, including road infrastructures, nearby vehicles and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-12 Junlan Chen , Ke Wang , Huanhuan Bao , Tao Chen

Efficient traffic control (TSC) is essential for urban mobility, but traditional systems struggle to handle the complexity of real-world traffic. Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL) offers adaptive solutions, but online MARL requires…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Rohit Bokade , Xiaoning Jin

Nowadays, transportation networks face the challenge of sub-optimal control policies that can have adverse effects on human health, the environment, and contribute to traffic congestion. Increased levels of air pollution and extended…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-25 Pedram Agand , Alexey Iskrov , Mo Chen

Multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) has shown significant potential in traffic signal control (TSC). However, current MARL-based methods often suffer from insufficient generalization due to the fixed traffic patterns and road network…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Yihong Li , Chengwei Zhang , Furui Zhan , Wanting Liu , Kailing Zhou , Longji Zheng