Explainable Reinforcement Learning for Adaptive Traffic Signal Control
arXiv:2607. 03703v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement Learning (RL) has emerged as a powerful paradigm for adaptive traffic signal control.
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.
arXiv:2607. 03703v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement Learning (RL) has emerged as a powerful paradigm for adaptive traffic signal control.
arXiv:2609.36934v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Traffic signal control (TSC) is essential for improving urban mobility and reducing congestion. Although roadside cameras are widely deployed at signal...
arXiv:2607. 16156v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Urban intersections are among the most hazardous locations in road networks, posing significant risks to vehicles and vulnerable road users (VRUs) such as pedestrians and cyclists.
arXiv:2607. 22691v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Urban traffic congestion significantly increases fuel consumption, greenhouse gas emissions, and commuter delays, resulting in substantial economic losses and environmental harm in modern cities.
arXiv:2606. 15749v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Traffic scene understanding requires models to reason beyond object recognition, including lane topology, multi-view geometry, temporal evolution, and signal-phase semantics.
arXiv:2606. 30694v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Traffic signal control at urban intersections inherently introduces stop-and-go behavior, resulting in increased delays and reduced traffic efficiency, especially under high traffic demand.
arXiv:2607. 18286v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Transit signal priority (TSP) requires balancing competing objectives: reducing bus delay while limiting adverse impacts on non-bus traffic and avoiding extreme waits for a subset of vehicles.
The paper introduces FedQoS, an asynchronous federated learning framework designed for multimodal in‑cabin interaction in smart vehicles. It uses a two‑phase gating mechanism: a resource‑aware training gate that starts local learning only when sensing buffers and energy reserves meet safety thresholds, and a QoS‑aware transmission policy that gates uplink updates based on an efficiency score balancing model novelty, latency, and energy costs. Experiments on vehicular datasets show FedQoS achieves competitive personalized accuracy with only marginal loss compared to FedAvg, while reducing communication overhead by 76.7% and latency cost by 26.0%.
The paper introduces STDSH-MARL, a multi-agent deep reinforcement learning framework that uses a dual-stage hypergraph attention mechanism to capture spatio-temporal dependencies in corridor traffic signal control. It employs a hybrid discrete action space to jointly set signal phase configurations and green durations, allowing more adaptive timing. Experiments on a corridor network show that STDSH-MARL outperforms state‑of‑the‑art baselines, notably reducing tram waiting times while balancing overall network efficiency, tram priority, and bus service quality.
REARL is a closed‑loop simulation enhancement framework that combines real traffic data with large language models (LLMs) to improve autonomous driving simulations. It clusters real traffic, uses cluster centers as representative scenarios for the LLM, and employs a sliding‑window detector to monitor vehicle speed and spacing discrepancies. When thresholds are exceeded, the LLM adjusts vehicle decision‑making or selects matching real vehicle actions, resulting in lower Hellinger distance and MAPE compared to baselines in a HighD highway setting.
arXiv:2604. 17456v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large language model (LLM) agents have shown strong capabilities in long-horizon reasoning, tool use, and decision-making in digital environments, yet extending them to physically grounded systems remains challenging.
VLALight is a lightweight end‑to‑end vision‑language‑action framework designed for traffic signal control. It fuses multiple camera views and textual instructions to directly predict signal actions, avoiding intermediate image‑to‑text conversions. The model, with only 0.5 B parameters, achieves superior emergency vehicle service, cutting pooled waiting time by 21.1% compared to cascaded methods while running in real time on local hardware.