To improve the traffic efficiency of city-wide road networks, we propose a traffic signal control framework that prioritizes the optimal control policies on critical nodes in road networks. In this framework, we first use a data-driven approach to discover the critical nodes. Critical nodes are identified as nodes that would cause a dramatic reduction in the traffic efficiency of the road network if they were to fail. This approach models the dynamic of road networks using a tripartite graph based on the vehicle trajectories and can accurately identify the city-wide critical nodes from a global perspective. Second, for the discovered critical nodes, we introduce a novel traffic signal control approach based on deep reinforcement learning; this approach can learn the optimal policy via constantly interacting with the road network in an iterative mode. We conduct several experiments with a transportation simulator; the results of experiments show that the proposed framework reduces the average delay and travel time compared to the baseline methods.
Network-wide traffic signal control based on the discovery of critical nodes and deep reinforcement learning
Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems ; 24 , 1 ; 1-10
2020-01-02
10 pages
Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
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