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https://doi.org/10.3141/1836-09

http://scholar.google.com...Logi&publication_year=2003

A multiagent architecture for real-time coordinated signal control in an urban traffic network is introduced. The multiagent architecture consists of three hierarchical layers of controller agents: intersection, zone, and regional controllers. Each controller agent is implemented by applying artificial intelligence concepts, namely, fuzzy logic, neural network, and evolutionary algorithm. From the fuzzy rule base, each individual controller agent recommends an appropriate signal policy at the end of each signal phase. These policies are later processed in a policy repository before being selected and implemented into the traffic network. To handle the changing dynamics of the complex traffic processes within the network, an online reinforcement learning module is used to update the knowledge base and inference rules of the agents. This concept of a multiagent system with online reinforcement learning was implemented in a network consisting of 25 signalized intersections in a microscopic traffic simulator. Initial test results showed that the multiagent system improved average delay and total vehicle stoppage time, compared with the effects of fixed-time traffic signal control.

This paper appears in Transportation Research Record No. 1836, Initiatives in Information Technology and Geospatial Science for Transportation.

English

p. 64-75

2003

Transportation Research Record

0309085721

Figures (11) ; References (24)

Fuzzy logic; Multi-agent systems; Neural networks; Real time control; System architecture; Traffic signal control systems; Urban areas

Evolutionary algorithms; Online reinforcement learning

Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; I73: Traffic Control

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Nov 7 2003 12:00AM

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• APPLICATION OF LIGHT DETECTION AND RANGING TECHNOLOGY TO HIGHWAY SAFETY
• BILEVEL FORMULATION FOR OPTIMAL TRAFFIC-INFORMATION DISSEMINATION
• BUILDING AND MAINTAINING A STATEWIDE TRANSPORTATION FRAMEWORK
• COMMON DATA FORMAT ARCHIVING OF LARGE-SCALE INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS DATA FOR EFFICIENT STORAGE, RETRIEVAL, AND PORTABILITY
• DESIGN OF ARCHIVAL TRAFFIC DATABASES: QUANTITATIVE INVESTIGATION INTO APPLICATION OF ADVANCED DATA MODELING CONCEPTS
• DEVELOPED INCIDENT DETECTION ALGORITHM COMPARED WITH NEURAL NETWORK ALGORITHMS
• EXPLORING IMPUTATION TECHNIQUES FOR MISSING DATA IN TRANSPORTATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS
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• INTEGRATION OF LIGHT DETECTION AND RANGING TECHNOLOGY WITH PHOTOGRAMMETRY IN HIGHWAY LOCATION AND DESIGN
• INTEGRATION OF SPATIAL POINT FEATURES WITH LINEAR REFERENCING METHODS
• LEARNING A CAUSAL MODEL FROM HOUSEHOLD SURVEY DATA BY USING A BAYESIAN BELIEF NETWORK
• MODULAR ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS FOR SOLVING THE INVERSE TRANSPORTATION PLANNING PROBLEM
• OPTIMIZATION OF DYNAMIC NEURAL NETWORK PERFORMANCE FOR SHORT-TERM TRAFFIC PREDICTION
• ROUGH SETS AND PROBABILITY MASSES FOR DEMPSTER-SHAFER DATA FUSION AT A TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT CENTER
• SPATIOTEMPORAL OBJECT DATABASE APPROACH TO DYNAMIC SEGMENTATION
• TOWARD MORE EFFECTIVE TRANSPORTATION APPLICATIONS OF COMPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENCE PARADIGMS
• USE OF LOCAL LINEAR REGRESSION MODEL FOR SHORT-TERM TRAFFIC FORECASTING