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 the coordination of connected and automated vehicles at intersections and merging at highway on-ramps

J Rios-Torres, AA Malikopoulos - IEEE Transactions on …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Connected and automated vehicles (CAVs) have the potential to improve safety by reducing
and mitigating traffic accidents. They can also provide opportunities to reduce transportation …

Automated and cooperative vehicle merging at highway on-ramps

J Rios-Torres, AA Malikopoulos - IEEE Transactions on …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recognition of necessities of connected and automated vehicles (CAVs) is gaining
momentum. CAVs can improve both transportation network efficiency and safety through …

Deep multi-agent reinforcement learning for highway on-ramp merging in mixed traffic

D Chen, MR Hajidavalloo, Z Li, K Chen… - IEEE Transactions …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
On-ramp merging is a challenging task for autonomous vehicles (AVs), especially in mixed
traffic where AVs coexist with human-driven vehicles (HDVs). In this paper, we formulate the …

A physics-informed reinforcement learning-based strategy for local and coordinated ramp metering

Y Han, M Wang, L Li, C Roncoli, J Gao, P Liu - … Research Part C: Emerging …, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper proposes a physics-informed reinforcement learning (RL)-based ramp metering
strategy, which trains the RL model using a combination of historic data and synthetic data …

A rule-based cooperative merging strategy for connected and automated vehicles

J Ding, L Li, H Peng, Y Zhang - IEEE Transactions on Intelligent …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Connected and automated vehicles (CAVs) show great potential to improve both traffic
efficiency and safety by sharing information. This paper addresses the problem of …

Cooperative game approach to optimal merging sequence and on-ramp merging control of connected and automated vehicles

S Jing, F Hui, X Zhao, J Rios-Torres… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Vehicle merging is one of the main causes of reduced traffic efficiency, increased risk of
collision, and fuel consumption. Connected and automated vehicles (CAVs) can improve …

Percolation-based dynamic perimeter control for mitigating congestion propagation in urban road networks

H Hamedmoghadam, N Zheng, D Li, HL Vu - Transportation research part …, 2022 - Elsevier
Perimeter control regulates the traffic flows between different regions of a road network by
coordinating the signal timings at region boundaries with the aim of improving the overall …

Event triggered rolling horizon based systematical trajectory planning for merging platoons at mainline-ramp intersection

C Mu, L Du, X Zhao - Transportation research part C: emerging …, 2021 - Elsevier
Two traffic steams merging at a mainline-ramp intersection often leads to recurrent traffic
accidents, delays, oscillations and pollution. Existing literature shows that we still lack …