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We propose a two dimensional probabilistic cellular automata for the description of traffic flow in a small city network composed of two intersections. The traffic in the network is controlled by a set of traffic lights which can be…

Physics and Society · Physics 2012-03-19 M. Ebrahim Fouladvand , M. Reza Shaebani , Zeinab Sadjadi

Intersections constitute one of the most dangerous elements in road systems. Traffic signals remain the most common way to control traffic at high-volume intersections and offer many opportunities to apply intelligent transportation systems…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2010-12-22 Nicolas Saunier , Sophie Midenet

Conventional urban traffic control systems have been based on historical traffic data. Later advancements made use of detectors, which enabled the gathering of real time traffic data, in order to reorganize and calibrate traffic…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-09-22 Kandarp Khandwala , Rudra Sharma , Snehal Rao

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

This paper implements a traffic signal control system by using real-time traffic flow feedback. This system is designed to deal with two-lane intersections. We construct an experiment field similar to the roads and drivers in Taiwan using…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-22 Zong-Ming Lin , Cheng-Yang Chang , Chin-Yu Hu , Yung-Yuan Chen

Virtual Traffic Light (VTL) is a traffic control method that does not require traffic signal-related infrastructure for roadway intersections. Connected vehicles (CVs) are given right-of-way based on prevailing traffic conditions, such as…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Abyad Enan , M Sabbir Salek , Mashrur Chowdhury , Gurcan Comert , Sakib M. Khan , Reek Majumder

In this paper, we investigate traffic signal control in a network of interconnected intersections, aiming to balance lane-level vehicle densities through optimal green-time allocation. We develop a two-lane traffic flow model that…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-09 Xinfeng Ru , Ting Bai , Weiguo Xia , Andreas A. Malikopoulos

Traffic signals play an important role in transportation by enabling traffic flow management, and ensuring safety at intersections. In addition, knowing the traffic signal phase and timing data can allow optimal vehicle routing for time and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-07 Juliette Ugirumurera , Joseph Severino , Erik A. Bensen , Qichao Wang , Jane Macfarlane

We propose a stochastic model for the intersection of two urban streets. The traffic state at the crossroads is controlled by a set of traffic lights, which periodically switch to red and green with a total period of T. Vehicular dynamics…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Ebrahim Fouladvand , Nima Hamedani Radja

Advancement of mobile technologies has enabled economical collection, storage, processing, and sharing of traffic data. These data are made accessible to intended users through various application program interfaces (API) and can be used to…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-05-04 Sumit Mishra , Vishal Singh , Ankit Gupta , Devanjan Bhattacharya , Abhisek Mudgal

Autonomous driving at intersections is one of the most complicated and accident-prone traffic scenarios, especially with mixed traffic participants such as vehicles, bicycles and pedestrians. The driving policy should make safe decisions to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-27 Jianhua Jiang , Yangang Ren , Yang Guan , Shengbo Eben Li , Yuming Yin , Xiaoping Jin

Continuous-Flow Intersections (CFI), also known as Displaced Left-Turn (DLT) intersections, aim to improve the efficiency and safety of traffic junctions. A CFI introduces additional sub-intersections upstream of the main intersection to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-23 Yining Hu , David Rey , Reza Mohajerpoor , Meead Saberi

Traffic signal control is an important and challenging real-world problem, which aims to minimize the travel time of vehicles by coordinating their movements at the road intersections. Current traffic signal control systems in use still…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-17 Hua Wei , Guanjie Zheng , Vikash Gayah , Zhenhui Li

Recently, Intelligent Transportation Systems are leveraging the power of increased sensory coverage and computing power to deliver data-intensive solutions achieving higher levels of performance than traditional systems. Within Traffic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-03 Alvaro Cabrejas-Egea , Raymond Zhang , Neil Walton

We propose a model for the intersection of two urban streets. The traffic status of the crossroads is controlled by a set of traffic lights which periodically switch to red and green with a total period of T. Two different types of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Ebrahim Fouladvand , Masoud Nematollahi

Accurate prediction of traffic signal duration for roadway junction is a challenging problem due to the dynamic nature of traffic flows. Though supervised learning can be used, parameters may vary across roadway junctions. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-26 Santhosh Kelathodi Kumaran , Debi Prosad Dogra , Partha Pratim Roy

We introduce a heuristic scheduling algorithm for real-time adaptive traffic signal control to reduce traffic congestion. This algorithm adopts a lane-based model that estimates the arrival time of all vehicles approaching an intersection…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Hsu-Chieh Hu , Joseph Zhou , Gregory J. Barlow , Stephen F. Smith

We consider traffic flow dynamics for a network of signalized intersections, where the outflow from every link is constrained to be equal to a given capacity function if the queue length is positive, and equal to the minimum of cumulative…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2017-09-13 Pouyan Hosseini , Ketan Savla

Manual optimization of traffic light cycles is a complex and time-consuming task, necessitating the development of automated solutions. In this paper, we propose the application of reinforcement learning to optimize traffic light cycles in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-26 Seungah Son , Juhee Jin

Traffic signal control TSC requires strategies that are both effective and interpretable for deployment, yet reinforcement learning produces opaque neural policies while program synthesis depends on restrictive domain-specific languages. We…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Da Lei , Feng Xiao , Lu Li , Yuzhan Liu