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Emergency vehicles (EMVs) play a crucial role in responding to time-critical calls such as medical emergencies and fire outbreaks in urban areas. Existing methods for EMV dispatch typically optimize routes based on historical traffic-flow…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Haoran Su , Yaofeng D. Zhong , Joseph Y. J. Chow , Biswadip Dey , Li Jin

Lane change decision-making is a complex task due to intricate vehicle-vehicle and vehicle-infrastructure interactions. Existing algorithms for lane-change control often depend on vehicles with a certain level of autonomy (e.g., autonomous…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-09 Ke Sun , Huan Yu

Tracking congestion throughout the network road is a critical component of Intelligent transportation network management systems. Understanding how the traffic flows and short-term prediction of congestion occurrence due to rush-hour or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-07-27 Mohammadhani Fouladgar , Mostafa Parchami , Ramez Elmasri , Amir Ghaderi

For traffic incident detection, the acquisition of data and labels is notably resource-intensive, rendering semi-supervised traffic incident detection both a formidable and consequential challenge. Thus, this paper focuses on traffic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-13 Xinying Lu , Jianli Xiao

Urban traffic control is a system-level coordination problem spanning heterogeneous subsystems, including traffic signals, freeways, public transit, and taxi services. Existing optimization-based, reinforcement learning (RL), and emerging…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Siqi Lai , Pan Zhang , Yuping Zhou , Jindong Han , Yansong Ning , Hao Liu

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

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

To address the challenge of conflicting traffic flows that complete on opposing cycle times in a specific phase of the traffic light, we proposed a novel decentralized traffic light control methodology based on the identification of the…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-06-27 Nimrod Serok , Shlomo Havlin , Efrat Blumenfeld Lieberthal

Urban traffic congestion is a key challenge for the development of modern cities, requiring advanced control techniques to optimize existing infrastructures usage. Despite the extensive availability of data, modeling such complex systems…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-18 Alessio Rimoldi , Carlo Cenedese , Alberto Padoan , Florian Dörfler , John Lygeros

Smart cities have revolutionized urban living by incorporating sophisticated technologies to optimize various aspects of urban infrastructure, such as transportation systems. Effective traffic management is a crucial component of smart…

As travel demand increases and urban traffic condition becomes more complicated, applying multi-agent deep reinforcement learning (MARL) to traffic signal control becomes one of the hot topics. The rise of Reinforcement Learning (RL) has…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Shijie Wang , Shangbo Wang

A sudden roadblock on highways due to many reasons such as road maintenance, accidents, and car repair is a common situation we encounter almost daily. Autonomous Vehicles (AVs) equipped with sensors that can acquire vehicle dynamics such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-27 Emanuel Figetakis , Yahuza Bello , Ahmed Refaey , Lei Lei , Medhat Moussa

Traffic signal control (TSC) is a core component of intelligent transportation systems (ITS), aiming to reduce congestion, emissions, and travel time. Recent approaches based on reinforcement learning (RL) and large language models (LLMs)…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Qing Guo , Xinhang Li , Junyu Chen , Zheng Guo , Shengzhe Xu , Lin Zhang , Lei Li

Modelling dynamic traffic patterns and especially the continuously changing dependencies between different base stations, which previous studies overlook, is challenging. Traditional algorithms struggle to process large volumes of data and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Yini Fang

Various congestion control protocols have been designed to achieve high performance in different network environments. Modern online learning solutions that delegate the congestion control actions to a machine cannot properly converge in…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Shiva Ketabi , Hongkai Chen , Haiwei Dong , Yashar Ganjali

Connected automated driving has the potential to significantly improve urban traffic efficiency, e.g., by alleviating issues due to occlusion. Cooperative behavior planning can be employed to jointly optimize the motion of multiple…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-07-31 Marvin Klimke , Benjamin Völz , Michael Buchholz

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

Inefficient traffic control may cause numerous problems such as traffic congestion and energy waste. This paper proposes a novel multi-agent reinforcement learning method, named KS-DDPG (Knowledge Sharing Deep Deterministic Policy Gradient)…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-07-14 Zhenning Li , Hao Yu , Guohui Zhang , Shangjia Dong , Cheng-Zhong Xu

Lane change decision-making for autonomous vehicles is a complex but high-reward behavior. In this paper, we propose a hybrid input based deep reinforcement learning (DRL) algorithm, which realizes abstract lane change decisions and lane…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Ziteng Gao , Jiaqi Qu , Chaoyu Chen

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