An efficient transportation system can substantially benefit our society, but road intersections have always been among the major traffic bottlenecks leading to traffic congestion. Appropriate traffic signal timing adapted to real-time traffic may help mitigate such traffic congestion. However, most existing traffic signal control methods require a huge amount of road information, such as vehicle positions. In this paper, we focus on a particular road intersection and aim to minimize the average waiting time. We propose a traffic signal control (TSC) system based on an end-to-end off-policy deep reinforcement learning (deep RL) agent with background removal residual networks. The agent takes real-time images at the road intersection as input. Upon sufficient training, the agent can perform (near-) optimal traffic signaling based on real-time traffic conditions. We conduct experiments on different intersection scenarios and compare various TSC methods. The experimental results show that our end-to-end deep RL approach can adapt to the dynamic traffic based on the traffic images and outperforms other TSC methods.
Traffic Signal Control Using End-to-End Off-Policy Deep Reinforcement Learning
IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems ; 23 , 7 ; 7184-7195
2022-07-01
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Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
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