The Real Deal: A Review of Challenges and Opportunities in Moving Reinforcement Learning-Based Traffic Signal Control Systems Towards Reality

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2206.11996v1
• Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2022 22:05:38 GMT
• Title: The Real Deal: A Review of Challenges and Opportunities in Moving Reinforcement Learning-Based Traffic Signal Control Systems Towards Reality
• Authors: Rex Chen, Fei Fang, Norman Sadeh
• Abstract summary: Traffic signal control (TSC) is a high-stakes domain that is growing in importance as traffic volume grows globally. reinforcement learning (RL) can draw on an abundance of traffic data to improve signalling efficiency. RL-based signal controllers have never been deployed. We focus on four challenges involving (1) uncertainty in detection, (2) reliability of communications, (3) compliance and interpretability, and (4) heterogeneous road users.
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• Abstract: Traffic signal control (TSC) is a high-stakes domain that is growing in importance as traffic volume grows globally. An increasing number of works are applying reinforcement learning (RL) to TSC; RL can draw on an abundance of traffic data to improve signalling efficiency. However, RL-based signal controllers have never been deployed. In this work, we provide the first review of challenges that must be addressed before RL can be deployed for TSC. We focus on four challenges involving (1) uncertainty in detection, (2) reliability of communications, (3) compliance and interpretability, and (4) heterogeneous road users. We show that the literature on RL-based TSC has made some progress towards addressing each challenge. However, more work should take a systems thinking approach that considers the impacts of other pipeline components on RL.

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