TuSeRACT: Turn-Sample-Based Real-Time Traffic Signal Control

12/13/2018
by   Srishti Dhamija, et al.
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Real-time traffic signal control systems can effectively reduce urban traffic congestion but can also become significant contributors to congestion if poorly timed. Real-time traffic signal control is typically challenging owing to constantly changing traffic demand patterns, very limited planning time and various sources of uncertainty in the real world (due to vehicle detection or unobserved vehicle turn movements, for instance). SURTRAC (Scalable URban TRAffic Control) is a recently developed traffic signal control approach which computes delay-minimising and coordinated (across neighbouring traffic lights) schedules of oncoming vehicle clusters in real time. To ensure real-time responsiveness in the presence of turn-induced uncertainty, SURTRAC computes schedules which minimize the delay for the expected turn movements as opposed to minimizing the expected delay under turn-induced uncertainty. Furthermore, expected outgoing traffic clusters are communicated to downstream intersections. These approximations ensure real-time tractability, but degrade solution quality in the presence of turn-induced uncertainty. To address this limitation, we introduce TuSeRACT (Turn-Sample-based Real-time trAffic signal ConTrol), a distributed sample-based scheduling approach to traffic signal control. Unlike SURTRAC, TuSeRACT computes schedules that minimize expected delay over sampled turn movements of observed traffic, and communicates samples of traffic outflows to neighbouring intersections. We formulate this sample-based scheduling problem as a constraint program, and empirically evaluate our approach on synthetic traffic networks. We demonstrate that our approach results in substantially lower average vehicle waiting times as compared to SURTRAC when turn-induced uncertainty is present.

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