Agent-Based Traffic Control Using Auctions

Author(s):  
Heiko Schepperle ◽  
Klemens Böhm
Keyword(s):  
10.29007/sc13 ◽  
2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Levente Alekszejenkó ◽  
Tadeusz P. Dobrowiecki

Starting from the problems of nowadays’ urban traffic (congestions, imperfect timing of traffic lights, high impact of lane changes) we investigate the feasibility of a cooperative intelligent agent based solution as an overall control scheme governing the car flow in congested urban intersections.The proposed complex solution features both the intelligent traffic control and the car platooning. In order to test and verify the merits of the proposed solution in urban intersection of a widely variable topology, but also to support our future research aims, a simulation platform, extending the basic functionalities of SUMO with the options of intelligent communication and cooperative co-acting, was designed and developed.


2005 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 126-131 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ludovica Adacher ◽  
Carlo Meloni

This paper presents a multi-agent based distributed traffic control model to optimize the traffic signal for multiple intersections. Previous works in the area of traffic signal control suffer from a number of inadequacies, including the use of fixed cycle length, centralized mode of operations and dependency on historical data. Considering these, the aim of this work is to control the traffic signal timings by adjusting the phase sequence in order to minimize the delay in traffic at the intersections. To model the traffic network, a three-tier multi-agent system has been adopted in distributed mode. In addition, a fully actuated signal control algorithm is designed and it utilizes state-space equations to formulate the queue length at the green light phase and red light phase. The proposed model is simulated with SUMO simulator and a comparative analysis has been made between adaptive control method, multi-agent method based on collective learning and multi-agent based fully actuated control method on a similar platform. The results spectacle the proposed traffic control model outperforms that of other existing control methods in all condition; hence it can be deployed to control the tremendous traffic on the road network and to optimize the traffic signal in more effective manner.


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