Traffic congestion on highways causes decreased efficiency in road operation and increased energy consumption and environmental pollution. Various measures for traffic control have been considered for easing traffic congestion. In this paper, we propose the use of ramp metering control by introducing the reinforcement learning model in artificial intelligence, which is then combined with a dynamic micro traffic style simulation. Numerical simulation showed that when effective Reinforcement Learning ramp metering control is completed in the on-ramp section, traffic confusion can be prevented in advance.


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    Title :

    Reinforcement Learning Control for On-Ramp Metering Based on Traffic Simulation


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    Ninth International Conference of Chinese Transportation Professionals (ICCTP) ; 2009 ; Harbin, China


    Published in:

    Publication date :

    2009-07-23




    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English




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