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Many recent works have turned to multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) for adaptive traffic signal control to optimize the travel time of vehicles over large urban networks. However, achieving effective and scalable cooperation among…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Harsh Goel , Yifeng Zhang , Mehul Damani , Guillaume Sartoretti

In an intelligent transportation system, the key problem of traffic forecasting is how to extract periodic temporal dependencies and complex spatial correlations. Current state-of-the-art methods for predicting traffic flow are based on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Zichuan Liu , Rui Zhang , Chen Wang , Zhu Xiao , Hongbo Jiang

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

City-scale traffic signal control (TSC) involves thousands of heterogeneous intersections with varying topologies, making cooperative decision-making across intersections particularly challenging. Given the prohibitive computational cost of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-07 Jinwei Zeng , Chao Yu , Xinyi Yang , Wenxuan Ao , Qianyue Hao , Jian Yuan , Yong Li , Yu Wang , Huazhong Yang

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

In Industrial Control Systems (ICS/SCADA), machine to machine data traffic is highly periodic. Previous work showed that in many cases, it is possible to create an automata-based model of the traffic between each individual Programmable…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-08-16 Chen Markman , Avishai Wool , Alvaro A. Cardenas

Developments in sensor technologies, especially emerging connected and autonomous vehicles, facilitate better queue length (QL) measurements on signalized intersection approaches in real time. Currently there are very limited methods that…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-12 Gurcan Comert , Mecit Cetin , Negash Begashaw

Leveraging the concept of the macroscopic fundamental diagram (MFD), perimeter control can alleviate network-level congestion by identifying critical intersections and regulating them effectively. Considering the time-varying nature of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-29 Can Chen , Yunping Huang , Hongwei Zhang , Shimin Wang , Martin Guay , Shu-Chien Hsu , Renxin Zhong

Traffic forecasting is pivotal for intelligent transportation systems, where accurate and interpretable predictions can significantly enhance operational efficiency and safety. A key challenge stems from the heterogeneity of traffic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Seyed Mohamad Moghadas , Bruno Cornelis , Alexandre Alahi , Adrian Munteanu

Owing to the rapid growth number of vehicles, urban traffic congestion has become more and more severe in the last decades. As an effective approach, Model Predictive Control (MPC) has been applied to urban traffic signal control system.…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-11-12 Qiming Zou , Ke Lu , Yu Li

The turning movement count data is crucial for traffic signal design, intersection geometry planning, traffic flow, and congestion analysis. This work proposes three methods called dynamic, static, and hybrid configuration for TMC-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Mohammad Shokrolah Shirazi , Hung-Fu Chang

Congestion control algorithms are crucial in achieving high utilization while preventing overloading the network. Over the years, many different congestion control algorithms have been developed, each trying to improve in specific…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-03-12 Belma Turkovic , Fernando A. Kuipers , Steve Uhlig

Over the past decade, several approaches have been introduced for short-term traffic prediction. However, providing fine-grained traffic prediction for large-scale transportation networks where numerous detectors are geographically deployed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-05 Ming-Chang Lee , Jia-Chun Lin

Traffic signal control is important in intelligent transportation system, of which cooperative control is difficult to realize but yet vital. Many methods model multi-intersection traffic networks as grids and address the problem using…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Zhiyue Luo , Jun Xu , Fanglin Chen

The Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) targets to a coordinated traffic system by applying the advanced wireless communication technologies for road traffic scheduling. Towards an accurate road traffic control, the short-term traffic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-01-10 Xun Zhou , Changle Li , Zhe Liu , Tom H. Luan , Zhifang Miao , Lina Zhu , Lei Xiong

Sub-optimal control policies in transportation systems negatively impact mobility, the environment and human health. Developing optimal transportation control systems at the appropriate scale can be difficult as cities' transportation…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-04 Wade Genders , Saiedeh Razavi

Delays endanger safety of autonomous systems operating in a rapidly changing environment, such as nondeterministic surrounding traffic participants in autonomous driving and high-speed racing. Unfortunately, delays are typically not…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-08-31 Dvij Kalaria , Qin Lin , John M. Dolan

We propose AttendLight, an end-to-end Reinforcement Learning (RL) algorithm for the problem of traffic signal control. Previous approaches for this problem have the shortcoming that they require training for each new intersection with a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Afshin Oroojlooy , Mohammadreza Nazari , Davood Hajinezhad , Jorge Silva

Traffic prediction constitutes a pivotal facet within the purview of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), and the attainment of highly precise predictions holds profound significance for efficacious traffic management. The precision of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-27 Yilong Ren , Yue Chen , Shuai Liu , Boyue Wang , Haiyang Yu , Zhiyong Cui

A Bayesian approach to predicting traffic flows at signalised intersections is considered using the the INLA framework. INLA is a deterministic, computationally efficient alternative to MCMC for estimating a posterior distribution. It is…

Applications · Statistics 2021-07-09 D. Townsend , C. Nel