HumanLight: Incentivizing Ridesharing via Human-centric Deep Reinforcement Learning in Traffic Signal Control

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2304.03697v1
• Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2023 17:42:30 GMT
• Title: HumanLight: Incentivizing Ridesharing via Human-centric Deep Reinforcement Learning in Traffic Signal Control
• Authors: Dimitris M. Vlachogiannis, Hua Wei, Scott Moura, Jane Macfarlane
• Abstract summary: We present HumanLight, a novel decentralized adaptive traffic signal control algorithm. Our proposed controller is founded on reinforcement learning with the reward function embedding the transportation-inspired concept of pressure at the person-level. By rewarding HOV commuters with travel time savings for their efforts to merge into a single ride, HumanLight achieves equitable allocation of green times.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Single occupancy vehicles are the most attractive transportation alternative for many commuters, leading to increased traffic congestion and air pollution. Advancements in information technologies create opportunities for smart solutions that incentivize ridesharing and mode shift to higher occupancy vehicles (HOVs) to achieve the car lighter vision of cities. In this study, we present HumanLight, a novel decentralized adaptive traffic signal control algorithm designed to optimize people throughput at intersections. Our proposed controller is founded on reinforcement learning with the reward function embedding the transportation-inspired concept of pressure at the person-level. By rewarding HOV commuters with travel time savings for their efforts to merge into a single ride, HumanLight achieves equitable allocation of green times. Apart from adopting FRAP, a state-of-the-art (SOTA) base model, HumanLight introduces the concept of active vehicles, loosely defined as vehicles in proximity to the intersection within the action interval window. The proposed algorithm showcases significant headroom and scalability in different network configurations considering multimodal vehicle splits at various scenarios of HOV adoption. Improvements in person delays and queues range from 15% to over 55% compared to vehicle-level SOTA controllers. We quantify the impact of incorporating active vehicles in the formulation of our RL model for different network structures. HumanLight also enables regulation of the aggressiveness of the HOV prioritization. The impact of parameter setting on the generated phase profile is investigated as a key component of acyclic signal controllers affecting pedestrian waiting times. HumanLight's scalable, decentralized design can reshape the resolution of traffic management to be more human-centric and empower policies that incentivize ridesharing and public transit systems.

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