Towards explainable traffic signal control for urban networks through genetic programming

WL Liu, J Zhong, P Liang, J Guo, H Zhao… - Swarm and Evolutionary …, 2024 - Elsevier
The increasing number of vehicles in urban areas draws significant attention to traffic signal
control (TSC), which can enhance the efficiency of the entire network by properly switching …

EvoTSC: An evolutionary computation-based traffic signal controller for large-scale urban transportation networks

WL Liu, YJ Gong, WN Chen, J Zhang - Applied Soft Computing, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Traffic Signal Control (TSC) is a crucial component in the modern intelligent
transportation systems. Typically, the TSC can be formulated as a bilevel optimization …

Boosted genetic algorithm using machine learning for traffic control optimization

T Mao, AS Mihăită, F Chen… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Traffic control optimization is a challenging task for various traffic centers around the world
and the majority of existing approaches focus only on developing adaptive methods for …

PlanLight: learning to optimize traffic signal control with planning and iterative policy improvement

H Zhang, M Kafouros, Y Yu - IEEE Access, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Intelligent traffic signal control (TSC) is essential for transportation efficiency in modern road
networks. There is an emerging trend of using deep reinforcement learning techniques to …

[HTML][HTML] Advance traffic signal control systems with emerging technologies

J Jin - 2018 - diva-portal.org
Nowadays, traffic congestion poses critical problems including the undermined mobility and
sustainability efficiencies. Mitigating traffic congestions in urban areas is a crucial task for …

Expression might be enough: representing pressure and demand for reinforcement learning based traffic signal control

L Zhang, Q Wu, J Shen, L Lü, B Du… - … on Machine Learning, 2022 - proceedings.mlr.press
Many studies confirmed that a proper traffic state representation is more important than
complex algorithms for the classical traffic signal control (TSC) problem. In this paper, we (1) …

Reinforcement learning for traffic signal control: Incorporating a virtual mesoscopic model for depicting oversaturated traffic conditions

H Lee, Y Han, Y Kim - Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, 2023 - Elsevier
Recently, with increasing urban traffic congestion, there has been an upsurge in studies on
reinforcement learning for traffic signal control (RL-TSC), which enables efficient traffic …

Traffic signal control for smart cities using reinforcement learning

H Joo, SH Ahmed, Y Lim - Computer Communications, 2020 - Elsevier
Traffic congestion is increasing globally, and this problem needs to be addressed by the
traffic management system. Traffic signal control (TSC) is an effective method among various …

Presslight: Learning max pressure control to coordinate traffic signals in arterial network

H Wei, C Chen, G Zheng, K Wu, V Gayah… - Proceedings of the 25th …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
Traffic signal control is essential for transportation efficiency in road networks. It has been a
challenging problem because of the complexity in traffic dynamics. Conventional …

A survey on traffic signal control methods

H Wei, G Zheng, V Gayah, Z Li - arXiv preprint arXiv:1904.08117, 2019 - arxiv.org
Traffic signal control is an important and challenging real-world problem, which aims to
minimize the travel time of vehicles by coordinating their movements at the road …