State-of-art review of traffic signal control methods: challenges and opportunities

SSSM Qadri, MA Gökçe, E Öner - European transport research review, 2020 - Springer
Introduction Due to the menacing increase in the number of vehicles on a daily basis,
abating road congestion is becoming a key challenge these years. To cope-up with the …

[HTML][HTML] A survey on clustering methods for distributed and networked control systems

P Chanfreut, JM Maestre, EF Camacho - Annual Reviews in Control, 2021 - Elsevier
Clustering strategies are becoming increasingly relevant to boost the scalability of
distributed control methods by focusing the cooperation efforts on highly coupled agents …

[HTML][HTML] Stabilization of city-scale road traffic networks via macroscopic fundamental diagram-based model predictive perimeter control

II Sirmatel, N Geroliminis - Control Engineering Practice, 2021 - Elsevier
Traffic control for large-scale urban road networks remains a challenging problem.
Aggregated dynamical models of city-scale traffic, based on the macroscopic fundamental …

Data efficient reinforcement learning and adaptive optimal perimeter control of network traffic dynamics

C Chen, YP Huang, WHK Lam, TL Pan, SC Hsu… - … Research Part C …, 2022 - Elsevier
Existing data-driven and feedback traffic control strategies do not consider the heterogeneity
of real-time data measurements. Besides, traditional reinforcement learning (RL) methods …

[HTML][HTML] Two-layer adaptive signal control framework for large-scale dynamically-congested networks: Combining efficient Max Pressure with Perimeter Control

D Tsitsokas, A Kouvelas, N Geroliminis - Transportation Research Part C …, 2023 - Elsevier
Traffic-responsive signal control is a cost-effective, easy-to-implement, network management
strategy, bearing high potential to improve performance in heavily congested networks with …

[HTML][HTML] Hybrid perimeter control with real-time partitions in heterogeneous urban networks: An integration of deep learning and MPC

S Jiang, M Keyvan-Ekbatani - Transportation Research Part C: Emerging …, 2023 - Elsevier
Network-wide perimeter control strategies have been shown promise in recent years. These
perimeter control strategies are mostly based on networks with fixed boundaries. However …

[HTML][HTML] Modeling, estimation, and control in large-scale urban road networks with remaining travel distance dynamics

II Sirmatel, D Tsitsokas, A Kouvelas… - … Research Part C …, 2021 - Elsevier
City-scale control of urban road traffic poses a challenging problem. Dynamical models
based on the macroscopic fundamental diagram (MFD) enable development of model …

Data driven model free adaptive iterative learning perimeter control for large-scale urban road networks

Y Ren, Z Hou, II Sirmatel, N Geroliminis - Transportation Research Part C …, 2020 - Elsevier
Most perimeter control methods in literature are the model-based schemes designing the
controller based on the available accurate macroscopic fundamental diagram (MFD) …

Hierarchical control for stochastic network traffic with reinforcement learning

ZC Su, AHF Chow, CL Fang, EM Liang… - … Research Part B …, 2023 - Elsevier
This study proposes a hierarchical control framework to maximize the throughput of a road
network driven by travel demand with uncertainties. In the upper level, a perimeter controller …

Network-scale traffic prediction via knowledge transfer and regional MFD analysis

J Li, N Xie, K Zhang, F Guo, S Hu, XM Chen - Transportation research part …, 2022 - Elsevier
Network traffic flow prediction on a fine-grained spatio-temporal scale is essential for
intelligent transportation systems, and extensive studies have been carried out in this area …