arXiv AI

Transforming Police-Car Swerving for Mitigating Isolated Stop-and-Go Traffic Waves: A Practice-Oriented Jam-Absorption Driving Strategy

arXiv:2602. 10234v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Stop-and-go traffic waves, a major form of freeway congestion, impose severe and persistent adverse impacts, including reduced traffic efficiency, increased safety risks, and elevated vehicle emissions.

arXiv AI
Jun 29

OverFlowLight: Real-Time Gridlock Prevention and Traffic Signal Optimization for Urban Intersections

arXiv:2606. 27381v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Queue overflow, a severe consequence of urban traffic congestion, occurs when vehicle queues exceed intersection capacity, obstructing upstream traffic and triggering cascading gridlocks.

By Mingyuan Li, Boyang Huang, Tianqi Jiang, Chenpu Li, Chunyu Liu, Yang Li, Ruimin Li, Qiang Wu
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Aug 27

Reinforcement Learning-Based Control of CAV Platoon Joining Maneuvers in Mixed Traffic

The paper presents a modeling and simulation framework to study reinforcement‑learning control of connected and automated vehicle (CAV) platoon joining maneuvers in mixed traffic. It evaluates Deep Q‑Network, Double Deep Q‑Network, and Proximal Policy Optimization algorithms, finding that PPO achieves a 98 % joining success rate with less than 1 % collisions by incorporating risk penalties, though it requires more decision steps. An external safety controller can prevent collisions but may reduce joining efficiency, highlighting a trade‑off between safety, effectiveness, and decision speed.

arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 28

GNN-based Multi-Agent Control of Traffic Shockwaves in Sparse Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks

arXiv:2607. 23792v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Traffic shockwaves are stop-and-go waves that propagate upstream through the streams of vehicles and are one of the major causes of traffic congestion, fuel inefficiency, and increased accident rates in modern transportation systems.

By Prachi Nandi, Madhuri Malakar, Sonakshi Satpathy, Pabitra Mohan Khilar
arXiv AI
Aug 28

Reinforcement Learning-Based Control of CAV Platoon Joining Maneuvers in Mixed Traffic

The paper presents a modeling and simulation framework to study reinforcement learning (RL) control of connected and automated vehicle (CAV) platoon joining maneuvers in mixed traffic. Using SUMO and agent-based modeling, it evaluates Deep Q-Network (DQN), Double DQN (DDQN), and Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO) algorithms, finding that PPO achieves a 98 % joining success rate with less than 1 % collision rate by incorporating risk penalties. The study also shows a trade‑off between safety, joining effectiveness, and decision efficiency, and demonstrates that an external safety controller can prevent collisions but may reduce joining efficiency.

By Biao Yin, Abderrahmane Kasmi, Nadir Farhi