A unified framework for vehicle rerouting and traffic light control to reduce traffic congestion

Z Cao, S Jiang, J Zhang, H Guo - IEEE transactions on …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
As the number of vehicles grows rapidly each year, more and more traffic congestion occurs,
becoming a big issue for civil engineers in almost all metropolitan cities. In this paper, we …

Coordinated traffic light control in cooperative green vehicle routing for pheromone-based multi-agent systems

KL Soon, JMY Lim, R Parthiban - Applied Soft Computing, 2019 - Elsevier
Green transportation has been increasingly gaining attention in recent years. Existing
pheromone-based traffic management frameworks were developed to reduce urban …

Swarm intelligence-based green optimization framework for sustainable transportation

TH Nguyen, JJ Jung - Sustainable Cities and Society, 2021 - Elsevier
Traffic congestion is one of the most critical issues in developing sustainable transportation
in smart cities. As the Internet of Things evolves, connected vehicle technology has arisen as …

Proactive vehicular traffic rerouting for lower travel time

J Pan, IS Popa, K Zeitouni… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Traffic congestion causes driver frustration and costs billions of dollars annually in lost time
and fuel consumption. This paper presents five traffic rerouting strategies designed to be …

An efficient adaptive traffic light control system for urban road traffic congestion reduction in smart cities

DR Aleko, S Djahel - Information, 2020 - mdpi.com
Traffic lights have been used for decades to control and manage traffic flows crossing road
intersections to increase traffic efficiency and road safety. However, relying on fixed time …

Deep reinforcement learning for autonomous traffic light control

D Garg, M Chli, G Vogiatzis - 2018 3rd IEEE international …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In urban areas, the efficiency of traffic flows largely depends on signal operation and
expansion of the existing signal infrastructure is not feasible due to spatial, economic and …

Next road rerouting: A multiagent system for mitigating unexpected urban traffic congestion

S Wang, S Djahel, Z Zhang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
During peak hours in urban areas, unpredictable traffic congestion caused by en route
events (eg, vehicle crashes) increases drivers' travel time and, more seriously, decreases …

A two-level traffic light control strategy for preventing incident-based urban traffic congestion

L Qi, MC Zhou, WJ Luan - IEEE transactions on intelligent …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This work designs a two-level strategy at signalized intersections for preventing incident-
based urban traffic congestion by adopting additional traffic warning lights. The first-level …

Ant colony optimization-based traffic routing with intersection negotiation for connected vehicles

TH Nguyen, JJ Jung - Applied Soft Computing, 2021 - Elsevier
This study presents a decentralized traffic management system that integrates dynamic
traffic routing and signal-free intersection traffic control for connected vehicles (CV). In …

A multi-agent based vehicles re-routing system for unexpected traffic congestion avoidance

S Wang, S Djahel, J McManis - 17th International IEEE …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
As urbanization has been spreading across the world for decades, the traffic congestion
problem becomes increasingly serious in most of the major cities. Among the root causes of …