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In the context of global urbanization and motorization, traffic congestion has become a significant issue, severely affecting the quality of life, environment, and economy. This paper puts forward a single-agent reinforcement learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Qiang Li , Jin Niu , Qin Luo , Lina Yu

Connected vehicles will change the modes of future transportation management and organization, especially at an intersection without traffic light. Centralized coordination methods globally coordinate vehicles approaching the intersection…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-12 Yang Guan , Yangang Ren , Shengbo Eben Li , Qi Sun , Laiquan Luo , Keqiang Li

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…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-05-09 Juntao Gao , Yulong Shen , Jia Liu , Minoru Ito , Norio Shiratori

The development of autonomous vehicles has shown great potential to enhance the efficiency and safety of transportation systems. However, the decision-making issue in complex human-machine mixed traffic scenarios, such as unsignalized…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Jiaqi Liu , Peng Hang , Xiaoxiang Na , Chao Huang , Jian Sun

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…

Previous studies that have formulated multi-agent reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms for adaptive traffic signal control have primarily used value-based RL methods. However, recent literature has shown that policy-based methods may…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Dickness Kakitahi Kwesiga , Angshuman Guin , Michael Hunter

Rapid urbanization in cities like Bangalore has led to severe traffic congestion, making efficient Traffic Signal Control (TSC) essential. Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL), often modeling each traffic signal as an independent agent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Sayambhu Sen , Shalabh Bhatnagar

Traffic signal control is one of the most effective methods of traffic management in urban areas. In recent years, traffic control methods based on deep reinforcement learning (DRL) have gained attention due to their ability to exploit…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-22 Majid Raeis , Alberto Leon-Garcia

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

Effective traffic control is essential for mitigating congestion in transportation networks. Conventional traffic management strategies, including route guidance and ramp metering, often rely on state feedback controllers, which are used…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Giray Önür , Azita Dabiri , Bart De Schutter

We consider a mixed autonomy scenario where the traffic intersection controller decides whether the traffic light will be green or red at each lane for multiple traffic-light blocks. The objective of the traffic intersection controller is…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-25 Erica Salvato , Arnob Ghosh , Gianfranco Fenu , Thomas Parisini

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

Expert human drivers perform actions relying on traffic laws and their previous experience. While traffic laws are easily embedded into an artificial brain, modeling human complex behaviors which come from past experience is a more…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2019-03-05 Giulio Bacchiani , Daniele Molinari , Marco Patander

Reinforcement learning (RL) has attracted increasing interest for adaptive traffic signal control due to its model-free ability to learn control policies directly from interaction with the traffic environment. However, several challenges…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Dickens Kwesiga , Angshuman Guin , Khaled Abdelghany , Michael Hunter

Stop-and-go waves in traffic flow pose a persistent challenge, compromising safety, efficiency, and environmental sustainability. This paper introduces a novel mitigation strategy discovered through training multi-agent deep reinforcement…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-11-19 Raphael Korbmacher , Daniel Straub , Antoine Tordeux , Claudia Totzeck

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

Adaptive traffic signal control is one key avenue for mitigating the growing consequences of traffic congestion. Incumbent solutions such as SCOOT and SCATS require regular and time-consuming calibration, can't optimise well for multiple…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-05-03 Alvaro Cabrejas-Egea , Shaun Howell , Maksis Knutins , Colm Connaughton

Frequent lane changes during congestion at freeway bottlenecks such as merge and weaving areas further reduce roadway capacity. The emergence of deep reinforcement learning (RL) and connected and automated vehicle technology provides a…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2021-10-18 Yi Hou , Peter Graf

Recent advances in combining deep neural network architectures with reinforcement learning techniques have shown promising potential results in solving complex control problems with high dimensional state and action spaces. Inspired by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-05-30 Seyed Sajad Mousavi , Michael Schukat , Enda Howley

We propose a model-free reinforcement learning method for controlling mixed autonomy traffic in simulated traffic networks with through-traffic-only two-way and four-way intersections. Our method utilizes multi-agent policy decomposition…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Zhongxia Yan , Cathy Wu