EMVLight: A Decentralized Reinforcement Learning Framework for EfficientPassage of Emergency Vehicles

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2109.05429v1
• Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2021 04:21:50 GMT
• Title: EMVLight: A Decentralized Reinforcement Learning Framework for EfficientPassage of Emergency Vehicles
• Authors: Haoran Su, Yaofeng Desmond Zhong, Biswadip Dey, Amit Chakraborty
• Abstract summary: Emergency vehicles (EMVs) play a crucial role in responding to time-critical events such as medical emergencies and fire outbreaks in an urban area. To reduce the travel time of EMVs, prior work has used route optimization based on historical traffic-flow data and traffic signal pre-emption based on the optimal route. We propose EMVLight, a decentralized reinforcement learning framework for simultaneous dynamic routing and traffic signal control.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Emergency vehicles (EMVs) play a crucial role in responding to time-critical events such as medical emergencies and fire outbreaks in an urban area. The less time EMVs spend traveling through the traffic, the more likely it would help save people's lives and reduce property loss. To reduce the travel time of EMVs, prior work has used route optimization based on historical traffic-flow data and traffic signal pre-emption based on the optimal route. However, traffic signal pre-emption dynamically changes the traffic flow which, in turn, modifies the optimal route of an EMV. In addition, traffic signal pre-emption practices usually lead to significant disturbances in traffic flow and subsequently increase the travel time for non-EMVs. In this paper, we propose EMVLight, a decentralized reinforcement learning (RL) framework for simultaneous dynamic routing and traffic signal control. EMVLight extends Dijkstra's algorithm to efficiently update the optimal route for the EMVs in real time as it travels through the traffic network. The decentralized RL agents learn network-level cooperative traffic signal phase strategies that not only reduce EMV travel time but also reduce the average travel time of non-EMVs in the network. This benefit has been demonstrated through comprehensive experiments with synthetic and real-world maps. These experiments show that EMVLight outperforms benchmark transportation engineering techniques and existing RL-based signal control methods.

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