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Adaptive traffic signal control, which adjusts traffic signal timing according to real-time traffic, has been shown to be an effective method to reduce traffic congestion. Available works on adaptive traffic signal control make responsive…

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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

The goal of this work is to provide a viable solution based on reinforcement learning for traffic signal control problems. Although the state-of-the-art reinforcement learning approaches have yielded great success in a variety of domains,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-20 Yueh-Hua Wu , I-Hau Yeh , David Hu , Hong-Yuan Mark Liao

We consider the exclusion process on a ring with time-dependent defective bonds at which the hoping rate periodically switches between zero and one. This system models main roads in city traffics, intersecting with perpendicular streets. We…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-03-08 Chikashi Arita , M. Ebrahim Foulaadvand , Ludger Santen

Climate change compels a reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, yet vehicular traffic still contributes significantly to the emission of air pollutants. Hence, in this paper we focus on the optimization of traffic flow while simultaneously…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-10 Simone Göttlich , Michael Herty , Alena Ulke

Inefficiencies in traffic flow through an intersection lead to stopping vehicles, unnecessary congestion, and increased accident risk. In this paper, we propose a traffic signal controller platform demonstrating the ability to increase…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-03 Frederik Baymler Mathiesen , Garey Fleeman

Traffic congestion is one of the most notable problems arising in worldwide urban areas, importantly compromising human mobility and air quality. Current technologies to sense real-time data about cities, and its open distribution for…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-12-30 Albert Solé-Ribalta , Sergio Gómez , Alex Arenas

We consider the optimal control of input-queued switches under a cost-weighted variant of MaxWeight scheduling, for which we establish theoretical properties that include showing the algorithm exhibits optimal heavy-traffic queue-length…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-03-03 Yingdong Lu , Siva Theja Maguluri , Mark S. Squillante , Tonghoon Suk

We investigate how to control optimally a traffic flow through a junction on the line by acting only on speed reduction or traffic light at the junction. We show the existence of an optimal control and, under structure assumptions, provide…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-12-27 P. Cardaliaguet , P. E. Souganidis

With accelerating urbanization and worsening traffic congestion, optimizing traffic signal systems to improve road throughput and alleviate congestion has become a critical issue. This study proposes a short-term traffic prediction model…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-02-19 Shengda Zhao , Zhekun Liu , Jiaxin Yu , Bocheng Ju , Liang Wang , Xiaodong Zhang , Xinghua Zhang

Urban intersections, merging roadways, roundabouts, and speed reduction zones along with the driver responses to various disturbances are the primary sources of bottlenecks in corridors that contribute to traffic congestion. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-11-19 A M Ishtiaque Mahbub , Liuhui Zhao , Dimitris Assanis , Andreas A. Malikopoulos

Traffic signal controllers play an essential role in today's traffic system. However, the majority of them currently is not sufficiently flexible or adaptive to generate optimal traffic schedules. In this paper we present an approach to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-05 Shengchao Yan , Jingwei Zhang , Daniel Büscher , Wolfram Burgard

Travel on long arterials with signalized intersections can be inefficient if not coordinated properly. As the number of signals increases, coordination becomes more challenging and traditional progression schemes tend to break down. Long…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-19 Melvin H. Friedman , Brian L. Mark , Nathan H. Gartner

Inspired by the work of Atar and Miyazawa [1] (2026) as well as applications to energy-saving problems, we are interested in the heavy-traffic limit of the stationary queue length distribution, which is not addressed in [1]. In this paper,…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-04-13 Masahiro Kobayashi , Masakiyo Miyazawa , Yutaka Sakuma

The fixed-cycle traffic-light (FCTL) queue is the standard model for intersections with static signaling, where vehicles arrive, form a queue and depart during cycles controlled by a traffic light. Classical analysis of the FCTL queue based…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-12-03 Marko Boon , A. J. E. M. Janssen , Johan S. H. van Leeuwaarden , Rik W. Timmerman

Traffic prediction plays an essential role in intelligent transportation system. Accurate traffic prediction can assist route planing, guide vehicle dispatching, and mitigate traffic congestion. This problem is challenging due to the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-22 Xueyan Yin , Genze Wu , Jinze Wei , Yanming Shen , Heng Qi , Baocai Yin

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

Real-time optimization of traffic flow addresses important practical problems: reducing a driver's wasted time, improving city-wide efficiency, reducing gas emissions and improving air quality. Much of the current research in traffic-light…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-02-07 Shumeet Baluja , Michele Covell , Rahul Sukthankar

Traffic control optimization is a challenging task for various traffic centres in the world and majority of approaches focus only on applying adaptive methods under normal (recurrent) traffic conditions. But optimizing the control plans…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-14 Tuo Mao , Adriana-Simona Mihaita , Chen Cai

Based on numerical simulations of a three-phase traffic flow model, a probabilistic theory of traffic at the light signal is developed. We have found that very complex spatiotemporal self-organized phenomena determine features of city…

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