arXiv AI By Anastasia Psarou, Mikolaj Rams, Blazej Torbus, Rafal Kucharski

Collective Autonomous Vehicle Routing Needs Social Awareness for Coexistence with Human Drivers

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The paper proposes adding a social component—marginal cost—to autonomous vehicle (AV) routing rewards to account for the impact of AVs on human-driven vehicles (HDVs). Using multi-agent reinforcement learning on real-world networks, the authors show that this social reward reduces HDV travel time increases and improves overall system performance compared to purely selfish AV routing. A scalable approach limits counterfactual simulations to the most influential AVs, maintaining performance while cutting computational cost.

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