arXiv AI

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.

arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 20

PRISA: Proactive Infrastructure LiDAR Framework for Intersection Safety Assessment

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.

By Tam Bang, Hussam Abubakr, Emiliano de la Garza Villarreal, Truc Phuong Nguyen, Austin Harris, Toru Hirano, Mina Sartipi, Yunfei Xu, Hoang H. Nguyen
arXiv AI
Jun 16

OmniTraffic: A Controllable Generation Pipeline and Benchmark for Spatio-Temporal Traffic Reasoning

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.

By Maonan Wang, Zhengyan Huang, Kemou Jiang, Yuhang Fu, Jiayue Zhu, Yuxin Cai, Xingchen Zou, Qiaosheng Zhang, Yi Yu, Ding Wang, Xi Chen, Ben M. Chen, Yuxuan Liang, Zhiyong Cui, Man On Pun, Yirong Chen
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 18

QoS-Aware Federated Learning for Multimodal In-Cabin Interaction in Smart 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%.

By Baran Can G\"ul, Mert Nak{\i}p, Nasser Jazdi, Michael Weyrich
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 27

Spatio-temporal dual-stage hypergraph MARL for human-centric multimodal corridor traffic signal control

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.

By Xiaocai Zhang, Neema Nassir, Milad Haghani
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 18

REARL: A Closed-loop Autonomous Driving Simulation Enhancement Framework with Real Traffic Data and Large Language Models

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.

By Xiaojun Bi (Minzu University of China, Beijing, China), Jun Jiang (Minzu University of China, Beijing, China), Yiwen Sun (Peking University, Beijing, China, BIGAI, Beijing, China), Quanyi Ou (Minzu University of China, Beijing, China), Ke Cheng (Beihang University, Beijing, China), Mingjie Bi (BIGAI, Beijing, China), Yexin Li (BIGAI, Beijing, China)
arXiv AI
Jun 2

TrafficClaw: A Generalizable LLM Agent in the Unified Physical Environment for Urban Traffic Control

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.

By Siqi Lai, Pan Zhang, Yuping Zhou, Jindong Han, Yansong Ning, Hao Liu
arXiv AI
6d ago

VLALight: Lightweight Vision-Language-Action Models for Emergency-Aware Traffic Signal Control

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.

By Kemou Jiang, Maonan Wang, Xingchen Zou, Jiayue Zhu, Yuhang Fu, Sicheng Wang, Xi Chen, Yirong Chen, Zhiyong Cui