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Traffic signal control (TSC) is a challenging problem within intelligent transportation systems and has been tackled using multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL). While centralized approaches are often infeasible for large-scale TSC…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-10-05 Rohit Bokade , Xiaoning Jin , Christopher Amato

Sub-optimal control policies in intersection traffic signal controllers (TSC) contribute to congestion and lead to negative effects on human health and the environment. Reinforcement learning (RL) for traffic signal control is a promising…

The growing demand for road use in urban areas has led to significant traffic congestion, posing challenges that are costly to mitigate through infrastructure expansion alone. As an alternative, optimizing existing traffic management…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Muhammad Tahir Rafique , Ahmed Mustafa , Hasan Sajid

Traffic Signal Control (TSC) aims to reduce the average travel time of vehicles in a road network, which in turn enhances fuel utilization efficiency, air quality, and road safety, benefiting society as a whole. Due to the complexity of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-14 Junfan Lin , Yuying Zhu , Lingbo Liu , Yang Liu , Guanbin Li , Liang Lin

Urban congestion remains a critical challenge, with traffic signal control (TSC) emerging as a potent solution. TSC is often modeled as a Markov Decision Process problem and then solved using reinforcement learning (RL), which has proven…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Aoyu Pang , Maonan Wang , Man-On Pun , Chung Shue Chen , Xi Xiong

Reinforcement learning (RL) for traffic signal control (TSC) has shown better performance in simulation for controlling the traffic flow of intersections than conventional approaches. However, due to several challenges, no RL-based TSC has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Arthur Müller , Matthia Sabatelli

Traffic Signal Control (TSC) is a crucial component in urban traffic management, aiming to optimize road network efficiency and reduce congestion. Traditional TSC methods, primarily based on transportation engineering and reinforcement…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Siqi Lai , Zhao Xu , Weijia Zhang , Hao Liu , Hui Xiong

This paper proposes a traffic control scheme to alleviate traffic congestion in a network of interconnected signaled lanes/roads. The proposed scheme is emergency vehicle-centered, meaning that it provides an efficient and timely routing…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-04-13 Mehdi Hosseinzadeh , Bruno Sinopoli , Ilya Kolmanovsky , Sanjoy Baruah

Traffic congestion in modern cities is exacerbated by the limitations of traditional fixed-time traffic signal systems, which fail to adapt to dynamic traffic patterns. Adaptive Traffic Signal Control (ATSC) algorithms have emerged as a…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Anirudh Satheesh , Keenan Powell

Traffic signal control is a critical challenge in urban transportation, requiring coordination among multiple intersections to optimize network-wide traffic flow. While reinforcement learning has shown promise for adaptive signal control,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Haoran Su , Yandong Sun , Hanxiao Deng

An approach to resilient planning and control of autonomous vehicles in multi-vehicle traffic scenarios is proposed. The proposed method is based on model predictive control (MPC), where alternative predictions of the surrounding traffic…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-21 Victor Fors , Björn Olofsson , Erik Frisk

This paper presents a mixed traffic control policy designed to optimize traffic efficiency across diverse road topologies, addressing issues of congestion prevalent in urban environments. A model-free reinforcement learning (RL) approach is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-01-29 Chuyang Xiao , Dawei Wang , Xinzheng Tang , Jia Pan , Yuexin Ma

Adaptive traffic signal control (ATSC) in urban traffic networks poses a challenging task due to the complicated dynamics arising in traffic systems. In recent years, several approaches based on multi-agent deep reinforcement learning…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2021-07-07 Paolo Fazzini , Marco Torre , Valeria Rizza , Francesco Petracchini

In the backdrop of an increasingly pressing need for effective urban and highway transportation systems, this work explores the synergy between model-based and learning-based strategies to enhance traffic flow management by use of an…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-04 Filippo Airaldi , Bart De Schutter , Azita Dabiri

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

In most modern cities, traffic congestion is one of the most salient societal challenges. Past research has shown that inserting a limited number of autonomous vehicles (AVs) within the traffic flow, with driving policies learned…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-01-26 Yulin Zhang , William Macke , Jiaxun Cui , Daniel Urieli , Peter Stone

Event-triggered model predictive control (eMPC) is a popular optimal control method with an aim to alleviate the computation and/or communication burden of MPC. However, it generally requires priori knowledge of the closed-loop system…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Fengying Dang , Dong Chen , Jun Chen , Zhaojian Li

The optimization of traffic signal control (TSC) is critical for an efficient transportation system. In recent years, reinforcement learning (RL) techniques have emerged as a popular approach for TSC and show promising results for highly…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Jianxiong Li , Shichao Lin , Tianyu Shi , Chujie Tian , Yu Mei , Jian Song , Xianyuan Zhan , Ruimin Li

Reinforcement learning (RL) is a promising data-driven approach for adaptive traffic signal control (ATSC) in complex urban traffic networks, and deep neural networks further enhance its learning power. However, centralized RL is infeasible…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-13 Tianshu Chu , Jie Wang , Lara Codecà , Zhaojian Li

This paper introduces a comprehensive strategy that integrates traffic perimeter control with traffic signal control to alleviate congestion in an urban traffic network (UTN). The strategy is formulated as a lexicographic multi-objective…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-07 Viet Hoang Pham , Hyo-Sung Ahn