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Accurate traffic forecasting, the foundation of intelligent transportation systems (ITS), has never been more significant than nowadays due to the prosperity of smart cities and urban computing. Recently, Graph Neural Network truly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-18 Jiabin Tang , Tang Qian , Shijing Liu , Shengdong Du , Jie Hu , Tianrui Li

Spatio-temporal traffic prediction is crucial in intelligent transportation systems. The key challenge of accurate prediction is how to model the complex spatio-temporal dependencies and adapt to the inherent dynamics in data. Traditional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Wanna Cui , Peizheng Wang , Faliang Yin

Autonomous Vehicles (AVs) represent a transformative advancement in the transportation industry. These vehicles have sophisticated sensors, advanced algorithms, and powerful computing systems that allow them to navigate and operate without…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-03 Noor Aboueleneen , Yahuza Bello , Abdullatif Albaseer , Ahmed Refaey Hussein , Mohamed Abdallah , Ekram Hossain

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

In this paper, we propose capturing and utilizing \textit{Temporal Information through Graph-based Embeddings and Representations} or \textbf{TIGER} to enhance multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL). We explicitly model how inter-agent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Nikunj Gupta , Ludwika Twardecka , James Zachary Hare , Jesse Milzman , Rajgopal Kannan , Viktor Prasanna

Traffic signal control is a critical challenge in urban transportation, requiring coordination among multiple intersections to optimize network-wide traffic flow. While reinforcement learning has shown promise for adaptive signal control,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Haoran Su , Yandong Sun , Hanxiao Deng

We consider the problem setting in which multiple autonomous agents must cooperatively navigate and perform tasks in an unknown, communication-constrained environment. Traditional multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) approaches assume…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Sydney Dolan , Siddharth Nayak , Jasmine Jerry Aloor , Hamsa Balakrishnan

Adaptive traffic signal control (ATSC) is crucial in reducing congestion, maximizing throughput, and improving mobility in rapidly growing urban areas. Recent advancements in parameter-sharing multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Yifeng Zhang , Yilin Liu , Ping Gong , Peizhuo Li , Mingfeng Fan , Guillaume Sartoretti

Accurate traffic prediction is a challenging task in intelligent transportation systems because of the complex spatio-temporal dependencies in transportation networks. Many existing works utilize sophisticated temporal modeling approaches…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-25 Guangyin Jin , Fuxian Li , Jinlei Zhang , Mudan Wang , Jincai Huang

Recent studies have shifted their focus towards formulating traffic forecasting as a spatio-temporal graph modeling problem. Typically, they constructed a static spatial graph at each time step and then connected each node with itself…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-14 Chuanpan Zheng , Xiaoliang Fan , Shirui Pan , Haibing Jin , Zhaopeng Peng , Zonghan Wu , Cheng Wang , Philip S. Yu

The issue of traffic congestion poses a significant obstacle to the development of global cities. One promising solution to tackle this problem is intelligent traffic signal control (TSC). Recently, TSC strategies leveraging reinforcement…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-10-03 Yutian Zhang , Guohong Zheng , Zhiyuan Liu , Quan Li , Haipeng Zeng

Long-term traffic prediction has always been a challenging task due to its dynamic temporal dependencies and complex spatial dependencies. In this paper, we propose a model that combines hybrid Transformer and spatio-temporal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Wang Zhu , Doudou Zhang , Baichao Long , Jianli Xiao

This study integrates Transit Signal Priority (TSP) into multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) based traffic signal control. The first part of the study develops adaptive signal control based on MARL for a pair of coordinated…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Dickness Kakitahi Kwesiga , Suyash Chandra Vishnoi , Angshuman Guin , Michael Hunter

Urban traffic congestion is a critical predicament that plagues modern road networks. To alleviate this issue and enhance traffic efficiency, traffic signal control and vehicle routing have proven to be effective measures. In this paper, we…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-18 Xianyue Peng , Hang Gao , Gengyue Han , Hao Wang , Michael Zhang

Traffic flow forecasting is considered a critical task in the field of intelligent transportation systems. In this paper, to address the issue of low accuracy in long-term forecasting of spatial-temporal big data on traffic flow, we propose…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Baichao Long , Wang Zhu , Jianli Xiao

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

Obtaining accurate information about future traffic flows of all links in a traffic network is of great importance for traffic management and control applications. This research studies two particular problems in traffic forecasting: (1)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Xinglei Wang , Xuefeng Guan , Jun Cao , Na Zhang , Huayi Wu

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

Reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms have been widely applied in traffic signal studies. There are, however, several problems in jointly controlling traffic lights for a large transportation network. First, the action space exponentially…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-06 Gyeongjun Kim , Keemin Sohn

Effective agent coordination is crucial in cooperative Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL). While agent cooperation can be represented by graph structures, prevailing graph learning methods in MARL are limited. They rely solely on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Wei Duan , Jie Lu , Junyu Xuan