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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

The efficiency of traffic flows in urban areas is known to crucially depend on signal operation. Here, elements of signal control are discussed, based on the minimization of overall travel times or vehicle queues. Interestingly, we find…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-05-13 Dirk Helbing , Amin Mazloumian

The effective and safe management of traffic is a key issue due to the rapid advancement of the urban transportation system. Connected autonomous vehicles (CAVs) possess the capability to connect with each other and adjacent infrastructure,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-10 Rudra Sen , Subashish Datta

We propose a stochastic model for the intersection of two urban streets. The vehicular traffic at the intersection is controlled by a set of traffic lights which can be operated subject to fix-time as well as traffic adaptive schemes.…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2012-03-19 M. Ebrahim Fouladvand , Zeinab Sadjadi , M. Reza Shaebani

Efficient traffic signal control (TSC) is crucial for reducing congestion, travel delays, pollution, and for ensuring road safety. Traditional approaches, such as fixed signal control and actuated control, often struggle to handle dynamic…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-29 Anirud Nandakumar , Chayan Banerjee , Lelitha Devi Vanajakshi

Traffic congestion, primarily driven by intersection queuing, significantly impacts urban living standards, safety, environmental quality, and economic efficiency. While Traffic Signal Control (TSC) systems hold potential for congestion…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Qiang Li , Jin Niu , Lina Yu

Inefficiencies in traffic flow through an intersection lead to stopping vehicles, unnecessary congestion, and increased accident risk. In this paper, we propose a traffic signal controller platform demonstrating the ability to increase…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-03 Frederik Baymler Mathiesen , Garey Fleeman

This paper presents the results of a new deep learning model for traffic signal control. In this model, a novel state space approach is proposed to capture the main attributes of the control environment and the underlying temporal traffic…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-20 Matthew Muresan , Liping Fu , Guangyuan Pan

Advancement of mobile technologies has enabled economical collection, storage, processing, and sharing of traffic data. These data are made accessible to intended users through various application program interfaces (API) and can be used to…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-05-04 Sumit Mishra , Vishal Singh , Ankit Gupta , Devanjan Bhattacharya , Abhisek Mudgal

In this paper, we present a cyclically time-expanded network model for simultaneous optimization of traffic assignment and traffic signal parameters, in particular offsets, split times, and phase orders. Since travel times are of great…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2015-09-30 Ekkehard Köhler , Martin Strehler

This work introduces an integrated approach to optimizing urban traffic by combining predictive modeling of vehicle flow, adaptive traffic signal control, and a modular integration architecture through distributed messaging. Using real-time…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-20 Ismail Zrigui , Samira Khoulji , Mohamed Larbi Kerkeb

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

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

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

We propose a stochastic model for the intersection of two urban streets. The traffic state at the crossroads is controlled by a set of traffic lights, which periodically switch to red and green with a total period of T. Vehicular dynamics…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Ebrahim Fouladvand , Nima Hamedani Radja

Traffic congestion is an increasing problem in most cities around the world. It impacts businesses as well as commuters, small cities and large ones in developing as well as developed economies. One approach to decrease urban traffic…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-03-12 Esteban Ricalde

We aim to reduce the social cost of congestion in many smart city applications. In our model of congestion, agents interact over limited resources after receiving signals from a central agent that observes the state of congestion in real…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-05-06 Jakub Marecek , Robert Shorten , Jia Yuan Yu

The control of traffic signals is fundamental and critical to alleviate traffic congestion in urban areas. However, it is challenging since traffic dynamics are complicated in real-world scenarios. Because of the high complexity of the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-10 Hu Wang , Hao Chen , Qi Wu , Congbo Ma , Yidong Li , Chunhua Shen

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

Adaptive traffic signal control, which adjusts traffic signal timing according to real-time traffic, has been shown to be an effective method to reduce traffic congestion. Available works on adaptive traffic signal control make responsive…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-05-09 Juntao Gao , Yulong Shen , Jia Liu , Minoru Ito , Norio Shiratori