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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

Traffic congestion is a daunting problem that is affecting the daily lives of billions of people across the world. Recently, a promising new traffic control scheme known as Virtual Traffic Lights (VTL) has been proposed for mitigating…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-07-05 Rusheng Zhang , Frank Schmutz , Kyle Gerard , Aurélien Pomini , Louis Basseto , Sami Ben Hassen , Akihiro Ishikawa , Inci Ozgunes , Ozan Tonguz

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

Autonomous racing is becoming popular for academic and industry researchers as a test for general autonomous driving by pushing perception, planning, and control algorithms to their limits. While traditional control methods such as MPC are…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-07-07 Edoardo Ghignone , Nicolas Baumann , Mike Boss , Michele Magno

We propose a two dimensional probabilistic cellular automata for the description of traffic flow in a small city network composed of two intersections. The traffic in the network is controlled by a set of traffic lights which can be…

Physics and Society · Physics 2012-03-19 M. Ebrahim Fouladvand , M. Reza Shaebani , Zeinab Sadjadi

Adaptive Traffic Signal Control (ATSC) system is a critical component of intelligent transportation, with the capability to significantly alleviate urban traffic congestion. Although reinforcement learning (RL)-based methods have…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-30 Wenchang Duan , Zhenguo Gao , Jiwan He , Jinguo Xian

Traffic sign recognition, as a core component of autonomous driving perception systems, directly influences vehicle environmental awareness and driving safety. Current technologies face two significant challenges: first, the traffic sign…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Qiang Lu , Waikit Xiu , Xiying Li , Shenyu Hu , Shengbo Sun

Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) has become a popular approach in traffic signal control (TSC) due to its ability to learn adaptive policies from complex traffic environments. Within DRL-based TSC methods, two primary control paradigms are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Hankang Gu , Yuli Zhang , Chengming Wang , Ruiyuan Jiang , Ziheng Qiao , Pengfei Fan , Dongyao Jia

Inefficient traffic signal control methods may cause numerous problems, such as traffic congestion and waste of energy. Reinforcement learning (RL) is a trending data-driven approach for adaptive traffic signal control in complex urban…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-14 Zhenning Li , Chengzhong Xu , Guohui Zhang

Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) uses diverse, unstructured data and makes RL capable of learning complex policies in high dimensional environments. Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) based on Autonomous Vehicles (AVs) offers an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-30 Anum Mushtaq , Irfan ul Haq , Muhammad Azeem Sarwar , Asifullah Khan , Omair Shafiq

Cooperative intelligent freeway traffic control is an important application in intelligent transportation systems, which is expected to improve the mobility of freeway networks. In this paper, we propose a deep neuroevolution model, called…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2019-05-13 Yuankai Wu , Huachun Tan , Zhuxi Jiang , Bin Ran

In urban traffic management, the primary challenge of dynamically and efficiently monitoring traffic conditions is compounded by the insufficient utilization of thousands of surveillance cameras along the intelligent transportation system.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-19 Tao Li , Zilin Bian , Haozhe Lei , Fan Zuo , Ya-Ting Yang , Quanyan Zhu , Zhenning Li , Kaan Ozbay

Urban traffic congestion remains a pressing challenge in our rapidly expanding cities, despite the abundance of available data and the efforts of policymakers. By leveraging behavioral system theory and data-driven control, this paper…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-17 Alessio Rimoldi , Carlo Cenedese , Alberto Padoan , Florian Dörfler , John Lygeros

We propose in this paper a decentralized traffic signal control policy for urban road networks. Our policy is an adaptation of a so-called BackPressure scheme which has been widely recognized in data network as an optimal throughput control…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-05-12 Tung Le , Peter Kovacs , Neil Walton , Hai L Vu , Lachlan L Andrew , Serge S Hoogendoorn

Navigating dense, lane-less traffic remains one of the most challenging scenarios for autonomous vehicles, especially in emerging regions where road structure and driver behavior are highly unpredictable. This paper presents a hybrid…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-19 Parthib Khound

Traffic signal control TSC requires strategies that are both effective and interpretable for deployment, yet reinforcement learning produces opaque neural policies while program synthesis depends on restrictive domain-specific languages. We…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Da Lei , Feng Xiao , Lu Li , Yuzhan Liu

Adaptive traffic signal control (ATSC) is crucial in reducing congestion, maximizing throughput, and improving mobility in rapidly growing urban areas. Recent advancements in parameter-sharing multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Yifeng Zhang , Yilin Liu , Ping Gong , Peizhuo Li , Mingfeng Fan , Guillaume Sartoretti

Optimal management of traffic light timing is one of the most effective factors in reducing urban traffic. In most old systems, fixed timing was used along with human factors to control traffic, which is not very efficient in terms of time…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Mahdi Jamebozorg , Mohsen Hami , Sajjad Deh Deh Jani

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

Traffic Movement Count (TMC) at intersections is crucial for optimizing signal timings, assessing the performance of existing traffic control measures, and proposing efficient lane configurations to minimize delays, reduce congestion, and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-18 Saswat Priyadarshi Nayak , Guoyuan Wu , Kanok Boriboonsomsin , Matthew Barth