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Traffic signal control is one of the most effective methods of traffic management in urban areas. In recent years, traffic control methods based on deep reinforcement learning (DRL) have gained attention due to their ability to exploit…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-22 Majid Raeis , Alberto Leon-Garcia

Urban traffic management demands systems that simultaneously predict future conditions, detect anomalies, and take safe corrective actions -- all while providing reliability guarantees. We present STREAM-RL, a unified framework that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Joydeep Chandra , Satyam Kumar Navneet , Aleksandr Algazinov , Yong Zhang

In this paper, methods have been explored to effectively optimise traffic signal control to minimise waiting times and queue lengths, thereby increasing traffic flow. The traffic intersection was first defined as a Markov Decision Process,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-29 Hrishit Chaudhuri , Vibha Masti , Vishruth Veerendranath , S Natarajan

We consider a mixed autonomy scenario where the traffic intersection controller decides whether the traffic light will be green or red at each lane for multiple traffic-light blocks. The objective of the traffic intersection controller is…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-25 Erica Salvato , Arnob Ghosh , Gianfranco Fenu , Thomas Parisini

We present an economics-based method for deciding the optimal rates at which vehicles are allowed to enter a highway. The method exploits the naturally occuring fluctuations of traffic flow and is flexible enough to adapt in real time to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Bernardo A. Huberman , Dirk Helbing

Traffic signal control is a significant part of the construction of intelligent transportation. An efficient traffic signal control strategy can reduce traffic congestion, improve urban road traffic efficiency and facilitate people's lives.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-14 Ruijie Qi , Jianbin Huang , He Li , Qinglin Tan , Longji Huang , Jiangtao Cui

Based on numerical simulations of a three-phase traffic flow model, a probabilistic theory of traffic at the light signal is developed. We have found that very complex spatiotemporal self-organized phenomena determine features of city…

Physics and Society · Physics 2012-11-13 Boris S. Kerner

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

Connected and automated vehicles (CAVs) have a great potential to improve traffic efficiency in mixed traffic systems, which has been demonstrated by multiple numerical simulations and field experiments. However, some fundamental properties…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-02-07 Jiawei Wang , Yang Zheng , Qing Xu , Jianqiang Wang , Keqiang Li

The control of traffic signals is crucial for improving transportation efficiency. Recently, learning-based methods, especially Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL), garnered substantial success in the quest for more efficient traffic signal…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Xiao-Cheng Liao , Yi Mei , Mengjie Zhang

The continuous expansion of the urban traffic sensing infrastructure has led to a surge in the volume of widely available road related data. Consequently, increasing effort is being dedicated to the creation of intelligent transportation…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-02-17 Alina Patelli , Victoria Lush , Aniko Ekart , Elisabeth Ilie-Zudor

Reinforcement learning (RL) has attracted increasing interest for adaptive traffic signal control due to its model-free ability to learn control policies directly from interaction with the traffic environment. However, several challenges…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Dickens Kwesiga , Angshuman Guin , Khaled Abdelghany , Michael Hunter

This paper presents an intelligent traffic monitoring system using wireless vision sensor network that captures and processes the real-time video image to obtain the traffic flow rate and vehicle speeds along different urban roadways. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-04-02 Shiu Kumar , Eun Sik Ham , Seong Ro Lee

Ineffective and inflexible traffic signal control at urban intersections can often lead to bottlenecks in traffic flows and cause congestion, delay, and environmental problems. How to manage traffic smartly by intelligent signal control is…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-05-21 Mengyu Guo , Pin Wang , Ching-Yao Chan , Sid Askary

In this paper, a multi-lane multi-population microscopic model, which presents stop and go waves, is proposed to simulate traffic on a ring-road. Vehicles are divided between human-driven and autonomous vehicles (AV). Control strategies are…

We propose a model-free reinforcement learning method for controlling mixed autonomy traffic in simulated traffic networks with through-traffic-only two-way and four-way intersections. Our method utilizes multi-agent policy decomposition…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Zhongxia Yan , Cathy Wu

Continuous-Flow Intersections (CFI), also known as Displaced Left-Turn (DLT) intersections, aim to improve the efficiency and safety of traffic junctions. A CFI introduces additional sub-intersections upstream of the main intersection to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-23 Yining Hu , David Rey , Reza Mohajerpoor , Meead Saberi

Free-flow road networks, such as suburban highways, are increasingly experiencing traffic congestion due to growing commuter inflow and limited infrastructure. Traditional control mechanisms, such as traffic signals or local heuristics, are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Ankit Bhardwaj , Rohail Asim , Sachin Chauhan , Yasir Zaki , Lakshminarayanan Subramanian

Greenhouse gas emissions have dramatically risen since the early 1900s with U.S. transportation generating 28% of U.S. emissions. As such, there is interest in reducing transportation-related emissions. Specifically, sustainability research…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-01-18 Michael Villarreal , Dawei Wang , Jia Pan , Weizi Li

This paper implements a traffic signal control system by using real-time traffic flow feedback. This system is designed to deal with two-lane intersections. We construct an experiment field similar to the roads and drivers in Taiwan using…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-22 Zong-Ming Lin , Cheng-Yang Chang , Chin-Yu Hu , Yung-Yuan Chen