Freeway traffic control: A survey

S Siri, C Pasquale, S Sacone, A Ferrara - Automatica, 2021 - Elsevier
Freeway traffic control is a broad research area, not only interesting for its applicative
perspective, but also highly motivating for theoretical investigations. This research topic has …

Variable speed limit and ramp metering for mixed traffic flows: A review and open questions

F Vrbanić, E Ivanjko, K Kušić, D Čakija - Applied Sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
The trend of increasing traffic demand is causing congestion on existing urban roads,
including urban motorways, resulting in a decrease in Level of Service (LoS) and safety, and …

A survey on cooperative longitudinal motion control of multiple connected and automated vehicles

Z Wang, Y Bian, SE Shladover, G Wu… - IEEE Intelligent …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Connected and automated vehicles (CAVs) have the potential to address a number of
safety, mobility, and sustainability issues of our current transportation systems. Cooperative …

Development of an efficient driving strategy for connected and automated vehicles at signalized intersections: A reinforcement learning approach

M Zhou, Y Yu, X Qu - IEEE Transactions on Intelligent …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The concept of Connected and Automated Vehicles (CAVs) enables instant traffic
information to be shared among vehicle networks. With this newly proposed concept, a …

Parsimonious shooting heuristic for trajectory design of connected automated traffic part II: Computational issues and optimization

J Ma, X Li, F Zhou, J Hu, BB Park - Transportation Research Part B …, 2017 - Elsevier
Advanced connected and automated vehicle technologies enable us to modify driving
behavior and control vehicle trajectories, which have been greatly constrained by human …

Parsimonious shooting heuristic for trajectory design of connected automated traffic part I: Theoretical analysis with generalized time geography

F Zhou, X Li, J Ma - Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, 2017 - Elsevier
This paper studies a problem of designing trajectories of a platoon of vehicles on a highway
segment with advanced connected and automated vehicle technologies. This problem is …

Differential variable speed limits control for freeway recurrent bottlenecks via deep actor-critic algorithm

Y Wu, H Tan, L Qin, B Ran - Transportation research part C: emerging …, 2020 - Elsevier
Variable speed limit (VSL) control is a flexible way to improve traffic conditions, increase
safety, and reduce emissions. There is an emerging trend of using reinforcement learning …

[HTML][HTML] Effects of low speed limits on freeway traffic flow

F Soriguera, I Martínez, M Sala, M Menéndez - … Research Part C: Emerging …, 2017 - Elsevier
Recent years have seen a renewed interest in Variable Speed Limit (VSL) strategies. New
opportunities for VSL as a freeway metering mechanism or a homogenization scheme to …

Leveraging the capabilities of connected and autonomous vehicles and multi-agent reinforcement learning to mitigate highway bottleneck congestion

PYJ Ha, S Chen, J Dong, R Du, Y Li, S Labi - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2020 - arxiv.org
Active Traffic Management strategies are often adopted in real-time to address such sudden
flow breakdowns. When queuing is imminent, Speed Harmonization (SH), which adjusts …

Real-time signal-vehicle coupled control: An application of connected vehicle data to improve intersection safety

T Ghoul, T Sayed - Accident Analysis & Prevention, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract The proliferation of Connected Vehicles and their ability to collect a large amount of
data presents an opportunity for the real-time safety optimization of traffic networks. At …