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Urban traffic congestion, particularly at intersections, significantly affects travel time, fuel consumption, and emissions. Traditional fixed-time signal control systems often lack the adaptability to effectively manage dynamic traffic…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Saahil Mahato

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

While the development of fully autonomous vehicles is one of the major research fields in the Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSs) domain, the upcoming longterm transition period - the hybrid vehicular traffic - is often neglected.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-11-22 Benjamin Sliwa , Thomas Liebig , Tim Vranken , Michael Schreckenberg , Christian Wietfeld

A generic proecological traffic control model for the urban street canyon is proposed by development of advanced continuum field hydrodynamical control model of the street canyon. The model of optimal control of street canyon dynamics is…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 Maciej M. Duras

In modern traffic management, one of the most essential yet challenging tasks is accurately and timely predicting traffic. It has been well investigated and examined that deep learning-based Spatio-temporal models have an edge when…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Yunjie Huang , Xiaozhuang Song , Yuanshao Zhu , Shiyao Zhang , James J. Q. Yu

We propose in this paper a decentralized traffic signal control policy for urban road networks. Our policy is an adaptation of a so-called BackPressure scheme which has been widely recognized in data network as an optimal throughput control…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-05-12 Tung Le , Peter Kovacs , Neil Walton , Hai L Vu , Lachlan L Andrew , Serge S Hoogendoorn

Mitigating traffic congestion on urban roads, with paramount importance in urban development and reduction of energy consumption and air pollution, depends on our ability to foresee road usage and traffic conditions pertaining to the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-04-27 Jingyuan Wang , Yu Mao , Jing Li , Chao Li , Zhang Xiong , Wen-Xu Wang

The recent availability of data for cities has allowed scientists to exhibit scalings which present themselves in the form of a power-law dependence with population of various socio-economical and structural indicators. We propose here a…

Physics and Society · Physics 2014-07-18 Rémi Louf , Marc Barthelemy

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

Urban traffic management is essential for reducing congestion and supporting sustainable mobility. However, the task is becoming more challenging due to the growing penetration of electric vehicles and their charging demands. This paper…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-04 Yixun Wen , Stelios Timotheou , Boli Chen

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

In this paper, we investigate traffic signal control in a network of interconnected intersections, aiming to balance lane-level vehicle densities through optimal green-time allocation. We develop a two-lane traffic flow model that…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-09 Xinfeng Ru , Ting Bai , Weiguo Xia , Andreas A. Malikopoulos

Traffic Intersections are vital to urban road networks as they regulate the movement of people and goods. However, they are regions of conflicting trajectories and are prone to accidents. Deep Generative models of traffic dynamics at…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Yash Ranjan , Rahul Sengupta , Anand Rangarajan , Sanjay Ranka

This paper addresses the eco-driving problem for connected vehicles on urban roads, considering localization uncertainty. Eco-driving is defined as longitudinal speed planning and control on roads with the presence of a sequence of traffic…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-08 Eunhyek Joa , Eric Yongkeun Choi , Francesco Borrelli

Traffic congestion and collisions represent significant economic, environmental, and social challenges worldwide. Traditional traffic management approaches have shown limited success in addressing these complex, dynamic problems. To address…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Mira Nuthakki

Monitoring and control of traffic networks represent alternative, inexpensive strategies to minimize traffic congestion. As the number of traffic sensors is naturally constrained by budgetary requirements, real-time estimation of traffic…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-11-12 Sebastian A. Nugroho , Ahmad F. Taha , Christian Claudel

Most traffic flow control algorithms address switching cycle adaptation of traffic signals and lights. This work addresses traffic flow optimisation by self-organising micro-level control combining Reinforcement Learning and rule-based…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-02-25 Stefan Bosse

We propose a two dimensional probabilistic cellular automata for the description of traffic flow in a small city network composed of two intersections. The traffic in the network is controlled by a set of traffic lights which can be…

Physics and Society · Physics 2012-03-19 M. Ebrahim Fouladvand , M. Reza Shaebani , Zeinab Sadjadi

Computer vision applications in intelligent transportation systems (ITS) and autonomous driving (AD) have gravitated towards deep neural network architectures in recent years. While performance seems to be improving on benchmark datasets,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-11 Talha Azfar , Jinlong Li , Hongkai Yu , Ruey Long Cheu , Yisheng Lv , Ruimin Ke

Many major cities suffer from severe traffic congestion. Road expansion in the cites is usually infeasible, and an alternative way to alleviate traffic congestion is to coordinate the route of vehicles. Various path selection and planning…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-06-05 Hao Liao , Xingtong Wu , Mingyang Zhou , Chi Ho Yeung