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The integration of Automated Vehicles (AVs) into traffic flow holds the potential to significantly improve traffic congestion by enabling AVs to function as actuators within the flow. This paper introduces an adaptive speed controller…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-20 Han Wang , Hossein Nick Zinat Matin , Maria Laura Delle Monache

Developing autonomous vehicles (AVs) helps improve the road safety and traffic efficiency of intelligent transportation systems (ITS). Accurately predicting the trajectories of traffic participants is essential to the decision-making and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-12-22 Yunlong Lin , Zirui Li , Cheng Gong , Chao Lu , Xinwei Wang , Jianwei Gong

Recent work in decentralized, schedule-driven traffic control has demonstrated the ability to improve the efficiency of traffic flow in complex urban road networks. In this approach, a scheduling agent is associated with each intersection.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-07-04 Hsu-Chieh Hu , Stephen F. Smith , Rick Goldstein

Existing ineffective and inflexible traffic light control at urban intersections can often lead to congestion in traffic flows and cause numerous problems, such as long delay and waste of energy. How to find the optimal signal timing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-30 Chenguang Zhao , Xiaorong Hu , Gang Wang

Providing an efficient strategy to navigate safely through unsignaled intersections is a difficult task that requires determining the intent of other drivers. We explore the effectiveness of Deep Reinforcement Learning to handle…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-02-28 David Isele , Reza Rahimi , Akansel Cosgun , Kaushik Subramanian , Kikuo Fujimura

We consider a system to optimize duration of traffic signals using multi-agent deep reinforcement learning and Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) communication. This system aims at analyzing independent and shared rewards for multi-agents to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-02-25 Azhar Hussain , Tong Wang , Cao Jiahua

Urban Traffic Control (UTC) plays an essential role in Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) but remains difficult. Since model-based UTC methods may not accurately describe the complex nature of traffic dynamics in all situations,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-08-27 Yilun Lin , Xingyuan Dai , Li Li , Fei-Yue Wang

Traffic signal control (TSC) is a high-stakes domain that is growing in importance as traffic volume grows globally. An increasing number of works are applying reinforcement learning (RL) to TSC; RL can draw on an abundance of traffic data…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-10-05 Rex Chen , Fei Fang , Norman Sadeh

Traffic congestion remains a significant challenge in modern urban networks. Autonomous driving technologies have emerged as a potential solution. Among traffic control methods, reinforcement learning has shown superior performance over…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Songyang Liu , Muyang Fan , Weizi Li , Jing Du , Shuai Li

Signalized intersections in arterial roads result in persistent vehicle idling and excess accelerations, contributing to fuel consumption and CO2 emissions. There has thus been a line of work studying eco-driving control strategies to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-28 Vindula Jayawardana , Cathy Wu

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

Traffic sign is a critical map feature for navigation and traffic control. Nevertheless, current methods for traffic sign recognition rely on traditional deep learning models, which typically suffer from significant performance degradation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Guoyang Zhao , Fulong Ma , Weiqing Qi , Chenguang Zhang , Yuxuan Liu , Ming Liu , Jun Ma

The connectivity aspect of connected autonomous vehicles (CAV) is beneficial because it facilitates dissemination of traffic-related information to vehicles through Vehicle-to-External (V2X) communication. Onboard sensing equipment…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-10-01 Jiqian Dong , Sikai Chen , Yujie Li , Runjia Du , Aaron Steinfeld , Samuel Labi

A transportation digital twin represents a digital version of a transportation physical object or process, such as a traffic signal controller, and thereby a two-way real-time data exchange between the physical twin and digital twin. This…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-07-04 Sagar Dasgupta , Mizanur Rahman , Abhay D. Lidbe , Weike Lu , Steven Jones

Traffic light detection is crucial for environment perception and decision-making in autonomous driving. State-of-the-art detectors are built upon deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) and have exhibited promising performance. However,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Liang Gou , Lincan Zou , Nanxiang Li , Michael Hofmann , Arvind Kumar Shekar , Axel Wendt , Liu Ren

Automated vehicles, or AVs (i.e. those that have the ability to operate without a driver and can communicate with the infrastructure) may transform the transportation system. This study develops and simulates an algorithm that can optimize…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-07-07 Mahmoud Pourmehrab , Lily Elefteriadou , Sanjay Ranka , Marilo Martin-Gasulla

As a strategy to reduce travel delay and enhance energy efficiency, platooning of connected and autonomous vehicles (CAVs) at non-signalized intersections has become increasingly popular in academia. However, few studies have attempted to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Duowei Li , Jianping Wu , Feng Zhu , Tianyi Chen , Yiik Diew Wong

Vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communications have a great potential to improve traffic system performance. Most existing work of connected and autonomous vehicles (CAVs) focused on adaptation to downstream traffic conditions, neglecting the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-23 Jiawei Wang , Yang Zheng , Chaoyi Chen , Qing Xu , Keqiang Li

Since conventional approaches could not adapt to dynamic traffic conditions, reinforcement learning (RL) has attracted more attention to help solve the traffic signal control (TSC) problem. However, existing RL-based methods are rarely…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Qiang Wu , Liang Zhang , Jun Shen , Linyuan Lü , Bo Du , Jianqing Wu

Reinforcement learning (RL) has shown promise in traffic signal control (TSC). However, its reliance on predefined states limits responsiveness to observable open-world events that are absent from training data. IoT-enabled intersections…

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