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This paper presents a novel AI-based smart traffic management system de-signed to optimize traffic flow and reduce congestion in urban environments. By analysing live footage from existing CCTV cameras, this approach eliminates the need for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-06 Ahmed Mahmoud Elbasha , Mohammad M. Abdellatif

Managing mixed traffic comprising human-driven and robot vehicles (RVs) across large-scale networks presents unique challenges beyond single-intersection control. This paper proposes a reinforcement learning framework for coordinating mixed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Iftekharul Islam , Weizi Li

End-to-end autonomous driving models trained solely with imitation learning (IL) often suffer from poor generalization. In contrast, reinforcement learning (RL) promotes exploration through reward maximization but faces challenges such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Xiaoji Zheng , Ziyuan Yang , Yanhao Chen , Yuhang Peng , Yuanrong Tang , Gengyuan Liu , Bokui Chen , Jiangtao Gong

Traffic signal control (TSC) is a core component of intelligent transportation systems (ITS), aiming to reduce congestion, emissions, and travel time. Recent approaches based on reinforcement learning (RL) and large language models (LLMs)…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Qing Guo , Xinhang Li , Junyu Chen , Zheng Guo , Shengzhe Xu , Lin Zhang , Lei Li

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

Although Reinforcement Learning (RL)-based Traffic Signal Control (TSC) methods have been extensively studied, their practical applications still raise some serious issues such as high learning cost and poor generalizability. This is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Yutong Ye , Yingbo Zhou , Zhusen Liu , Xiao Du , Hao Zhou , Xiang Lian , Mingsong Chen

In this paper we revisit some of the fundamental premises for a reinforcement learning (RL) approach to self-learning traffic lights. We propose RLight, a combination of choices that offers robust performance and good generalization to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-23 Sierk Kanis , Laurens Samson , Daan Bloembergen , Tim Bakker

As AI systems become increasingly autonomous, aligning their decision-making to human preferences is essential. In domains like autonomous driving or robotics, it is impossible to write down the reward function representing these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Ondrej Bajgar , Sid William Gould , Rohan Narayan Langford Mitta , Jonathon Liu , Oliver Newcombe , Jack Golden

Traffic signal control plays a crucial role in urban mobility. However, existing methods often struggle to generalize beyond their training environments to unseen scenarios with varying traffic dynamics. We present TransferLight, a novel…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-12-25 Johann Schmidt , Frank Dreyer , Sayed Abid Hashimi , Sebastian Stober

Recent developments in multi-agent imitation learning have shown promising results for modeling the behavior of human drivers. However, it is challenging to capture emergent traffic behaviors that are observed in real-world datasets. Such…

Today's intelligent traffic light control system is based on the current road traffic conditions for traffic regulation. However, these approaches cannot exploit the future traffic information in advance. In this paper, we propose GPlight,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-01 Xiaorong Hu , Chenguang Zhao , Gang Wang

Many real-world systems such as taxi systems, traffic networks and smart grids involve self-interested actors that perform individual tasks in a shared environment. However, in such systems, the self-interested behaviour of agents produces…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2019-01-31 David Mguni , Joel Jennings , Sergio Valcarcel Macua , Emilio Sison , Sofia Ceppi , Enrique Munoz de Cote

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

Reinforcement Learning (RL) aims at learning an optimal behavior policy from its own experiments and not rule-based control methods. However, there is no RL algorithm yet capable of handling a task as difficult as urban driving. We present…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-17 Marin Toromanoff , Emilie Wirbel , Fabien Moutarde

Reinforcement learning (RL) has emerged as a promising paradigm for Internet congestion control, achieving higher link utilization than classical heuristics. However, RL-based controllers trained in single-flow environments are not…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Thomas Mbrice , Yuyu Liu

Traffic congestion has become one of the major problems in the urban cities according to the increasing number of vehicles in those cities, obsolete technologies used on the roads of those cities, inappropriate road design, and many other…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2020-09-01 Maythem K. Abbas , Mohd N. Karsiti , Madzlan Napiah , Brahim B. Samir , Marwan Al-Jemeli

In the current computer vision era classifying scenes through video surveillance systems is a crucial task. Artificial Intelligence (AI) Video Surveillance technologies have been advanced remarkably while artificial intelligence and deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-18 Md Foysal Haque , Hay-Youn Lim , Dae-Seong Kang

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

How to coordinate the communication among intersections effectively in real complex traffic scenarios with multi-intersection is challenging. Existing approaches only enable the communication in a heuristic manner without considering the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-04-27 Qize Jiang , Minhao Qin , Shengmin Shi , Weiwei Sun , Baihua Zheng

Navigating safely and efficiently in dense and heterogeneous traffic scenarios is challenging for autonomous vehicles (AVs) due to their inability to infer the behaviors or intentions of nearby drivers. In this work, we introduce a…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Xiyang Wu , Rohan Chandra , Tianrui Guan , Amrit Singh Bedi , Dinesh Manocha