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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

Traffic prediction plays an essential role in intelligent transportation system. Accurate traffic prediction can assist route planing, guide vehicle dispatching, and mitigate traffic congestion. This problem is challenging due to the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-22 Xueyan Yin , Genze Wu , Jinze Wei , Yanming Shen , Heng Qi , Baocai Yin

As mobile networks embrace the 5G era, the interest in adopting Reinforcement Learning (RL) algorithms to handle challenges in ultra-low-latency and high throughput scenarios increases. Simultaneously, the advent of packetized fronthaul…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-05-03 Jean Martins , Igor Almeida , Ricardo Souza , Silvia Lins

Effective multi-intersection collaboration is pivotal for reinforcement-learning-based traffic signal control to alleviate congestion. Existing work mainly chooses neighboring intersections as collaborators. However, quite an amount of…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Jingqing Ruan , Ziyue Li , Hua Wei , Haoyuan Jiang , Jiaming Lu , Xuantang Xiong , Hangyu Mao , Rui Zhao

In transportation networks, intersections pose significant risks of collisions due to conflicting movements of vehicles approaching from different directions. To address this issue, various tools can exert influence on traffic safety both…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Amir Hossein Karbasi , Hao Yang , Saiedeh Razavi

The rapid development of autonomous vehicles (AVs) holds vast potential for transportation systems through improved safety, efficiency, and access to mobility. However, the progression of these impacts, as AVs are adopted, is not well…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-01-03 Cathy Wu , Aboudy Kreidieh , Kanaad Parvate , Eugene Vinitsky , Alexandre M Bayen

This paper presents DEEGITS (Deep Learning Based Heterogeneous Traffic State Measurement), a comprehensive framework that leverages state-of-the-art convolutional neural network (CNN) techniques to accurately and rapidly detect vehicles and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-14 Muttahirul Islam , Nazmul Haque , Md. Hadiuzzaman

Traffic light detection is essential for self-driving cars to navigate safely in urban areas. Publicly available traffic light datasets are inadequate for the development of algorithms for detecting distant traffic lights that provide…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Harindu Jayarathne , Tharindu Samarakoon , Hasara Koralege , Asitha Divisekara , Ranga Rodrigo , Peshala Jayasekara

Numerous solutions are proposed for the Traffic Signal Control (TSC) tasks aiming to provide efficient transportation and mitigate congestion waste. In recent, promising results have been attained by Reinforcement Learning (RL) methods…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-01-24 Longchao Da , Minquan Gao , Hao Mei , Hua Wei

Taking advantage of both vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communication and automated driving technology, connected and automated vehicles are quickly becoming one of the transformative solutions to many transportation problems. However, in a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-01 Zhengwei Bai , Peng Hao , Wei Shangguan , Baigen Cai , Matthew J. Barth

Recent work has shown that the introduction of autonomous vehicles (AVs) in traffic could help reduce traffic jams. Deep reinforcement learning methods demonstrate good performance in complex control problems, including autonomous vehicle…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Yue Wang , Esha Sarkar , Wenqing Li , Michail Maniatakos , Saif Eddin Jabari

Automated Vehicle (AV) control in mixed traffic, where AVs coexist with human-driven vehicles, poses significant challenges in balancing safety, efficiency, comfort, fuel efficiency, and compliance with traffic rules while capturing…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Pankaj Kumar , Pranamesh Chakraborty , Subrahmanya Swamy Peruru

This paper offers an integrative data-driven physics-inspired approach to model and control traffic congestion in a resilient and efficient manner. While existing physics-based approaches commonly assign density and flow traffic states by…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-03 Hossein Rastgoftar , Ella Atkins

In this work, we extend our systematic capacity region perspective to multi-junction traffic networks, focussing on the special case of an urban corridor network. In particular, we train and evaluate centralized, fully decentralized, and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Xiaofei Song , Kerstin Eder , Jonathan Lawry , R. Eddie Wilson

Reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms have been widely applied in traffic signal studies. There are, however, several problems in jointly controlling traffic lights for a large transportation network. First, the action space exponentially…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-06 Gyeongjun Kim , Keemin Sohn

Traffic congestion is a persistent problem in our society. Previous methods for traffic control have proven futile in alleviating current congestion levels leading researchers to explore ideas with robot vehicles given the increased…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Michael Villarreal , Bibek Poudel , Jia Pan , Weizi Li

Recent advances in combining deep learning and Reinforcement Learning have shown a promising path for designing new control agents that can learn optimal policies for challenging control tasks. These new methods address the main limitations…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-05-31 Hamid Mirzaei , Tony Givargis

Transportation is a major contributor to CO2 emissions, making it essential to optimize traffic networks to reduce energy-related emissions. This paper presents a novel approach to traffic network control using Differentiable Predictive…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-18 Renukanandan Tumu , Wenceslao Shaw Cortez , Ján Drgoňa , Draguna L. Vrabie , Sonja Glavaski

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

Traffic congestion in metropolitan areas is a world-wide problem that can be ameliorated by traffic lights that respond dynamically to real-time conditions. Recent studies applying deep reinforcement learning (RL) to optimize single traffic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-10 Zhi Zhang , Jiachen Yang , Hongyuan Zha