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Traffic congestion is becoming a challenge in the rapidly growing urban cities, resulting in increasing delays and inefficiencies within urban transportation systems. To address this issue a comprehensive methodology is designed to optimize…

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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 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

The connected vehicle technology is a remarkable trend in the field of the intelligent transportation system. Since the actual deployment of the connected vehicle system is still lacking hitherto, simulation is widely adopted as the major…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-09-07 Weitong Zhang , Shuai Liu , Daoya Yao

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

Traffic simulation is a great tool to demonstrate complex traffic structures which can be extremely useful for the planning, development, and management of road traffic networks. Current traffic simulators offer limited features when it…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-01-04 Sifatul Mostafi , Taghreed Alghamdi , Khalid Elgazzar

It is well known that stop-and-go waves can be generated spontaneously in traffic even without bottlenecks. Can such undesirable traffic patterns, induced by intrinsic human driving behaviors, be tamed effectively and inexpensively? Taking…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-16 Di Shen , Qi Dai , Suzhou Huang , Dimitar Filev

We introduce Traffic-R1, a 3B-parameter foundation model with human-like reasoning for Traffic signal control (TSC), developed via self-exploration and iterative reinforcement of LLM with expert guidance in a simulated traffic environment.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Xingchen Zou , Yuhao Yang , Zheng Chen , Xixuan Hao , Yiqi Chen , Chao Huang , Yuxuan Liang

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

This paper explores the intricacies of traffic behavior at unsignalized intersections through the lens of a novel dataset, combining manual video data labeling and advanced traffic simulation in SUMO. This research involved recording…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-12-25 Supriya Sarker , Bibek Poudel , Michael Villarreal , Weizi Li

An important question for the practical applicability of the highly efficient traffic intersection control is about the minimal level of intelligence the vehicles need to have so as to move beyond the traffic light control. We propose an…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2017-08-16 Bo Yang , Christopher Monterola

Recent years have witnessed substantial growth in adaptive traffic signal control (ATSC) methodologies that improve transportation network efficiency, especially in branches leveraging artificial intelligence based optimization and control…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-29 Xiaoyu Wang , Scott Sanner , Baher Abdulhai

Ensuring transportation systems are efficient is a priority for modern society. Technological advances have made it possible for transportation systems to collect large volumes of varied data on an unprecedented scale. We propose a traffic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-11-04 Wade Genders , Saiedeh Razavi

Real-time traffic signal control is a challenging problem owing to constantly changing traffic demand patterns, limited planning time and various sources of uncertainty (e.g., turn movements, vehicle detection) in the real world. SURTRAC…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-03-06 Srishti Dhamija , Pradeep Varakantham

We introduce a new conservation-based approach for traffic coordination modeling and control in a network of interconnected roads (NOIR) with switching movement phase rotations at every NOIR junction. For modeling of traffic evolution, we…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-13 Hossein Rastgoftar , Xun Liu , Jean-Baptiste Jeannin

Efficient traffic signal control is essential for managing urban transportation, minimizing congestion, and improving safety and sustainability. Reinforcement Learning (RL) has emerged as a promising approach to enhancing adaptive traffic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Xiaoyu Wang , Ayal Taitler , Scott Sanner , Baher Abdulhai

We present in this article a semi-decentralized approach for urban traffic control, based on the TUC (Traffic responsive Urban Control) strategy. We assume that the control is centralized as in the TUC strategy, but we introduce a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-08-06 Nadir Farhi , Cyril Nguyen Van Phu , Mouna Amir , Habib Haj-Salem , Jean-Patrick Lebacque

Traffic simulators are important tools for tasks such as urban planning and transportation management. Microscopic simulators allow per-vehicle movement simulation, but require longer simulation time. The simulation overhead is exacerbated…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Hao Chen , Ke Yang , Stefano Giovanni Rizzo , Giovanna Vantini , Phillip Taylor , Xiaosong Ma , Sanjay Chawla

Recent work in decentralized, schedule-driven traffic control has demonstrated the ability to significantly improve traffic flow efficiency in complex urban road networks. However, in situations where vehicle volumes increase to the point…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-03-12 Hsu-Chieh Hu , Stephen F. Smith

Optimizing traffic signal control (TSC) at intersections continues to pose a challenging problem, particularly for large-scale traffic networks. It has been shown in past research that it is feasible to optimize the operations of individual…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-13 Paul , Ha , Sikai Chen , Runjia Du , Samuel Labi