Origin-Destination Pattern Effects on Large-Scale Mixed Traffic Control via Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2505.13543v2
• Date: Tue, 08 Jul 2025 09:21:47 GMT
• Title: Origin-Destination Pattern Effects on Large-Scale Mixed Traffic Control via Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
• Authors: Muyang Fan, Songyang Liu, Shuai Li, Weizi Li,
• Abstract summary: Large-scale mixed traffic control, involving both human-driven and robotic vehicles, remains underexplored.<n>We propose a decentralized multi-agent reinforcement learning framework for managing large-scale mixed traffic networks.<n>We evaluate our approach on a real-world network of 14 intersections in Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Traffic congestion remains a major challenge for modern urban transportation, diminishing both efficiency and quality of life. While autonomous driving technologies and reinforcement learning (RL) have shown promise for improving traffic control, most prior work has focused on small-scale networks or isolated intersections. Large-scale mixed traffic control, involving both human-driven and robotic vehicles, remains underexplored. In this study, we propose a decentralized multi-agent reinforcement learning framework for managing large-scale mixed traffic networks, where intersections are controlled either by traditional traffic signals or by robotic vehicles. We evaluate our approach on a real-world network of 14 intersections in Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA, using average vehicle waiting time as the primary measure of traffic efficiency. We are exploring a problem that has not been sufficiently addressed: Is large-scale Multi-Agent Traffic Control (MTC) still feasible when facing time-varying Origin-Destination (OD) patterns?

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