Modeling, Monitoring, and Controlling Road Traffic Using Vehicles to Sense and Act

MLD Monache, ST McQuade, HNZ Matin… - Annual Review of …, 2025‏ - annualreviews.org
This review offers a comprehensive overview of current traffic modeling, estimation, and
control methods, along with resulting field experiments. It highlights key developments and …

Traffic Control via Connected and Automated Vehicles (CAVs): An Open-Road Field Experiment with 100 CAVs

JW Lee, H Wang, K Jang, N Lichtlé… - IEEE Control …, 2025‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The CIRCLES project aims to reduce instabilities in traffic flow, which are naturally occurring
phenomena due to human driving behavior. Also called “phantom jams” or “stop-and-go …

Control of multi-agent systems: Results, open problems, and applications

B Piccoli - Open Mathematics, 2023‏ - degruyter.com
The purpose of this review article is to present some recent results on the modeling and
control of large systems of agents. We focus on particular applications where the agents are …

Destroying phantom jams with connectivity and automation: Nonlinear dynamics and control of mixed traffic

TG Molnar, G Orosz - Transportation Science, 2024‏ - pubsonline.informs.org
Connected automated vehicles (CAVs) have the potential to improve the efficiency of
vehicular traffic. In this paper, we discuss how CAVs can positively impact the dynamic …

Reinforcement learning based oscillation dampening: Scaling up single-agent RL algorithms to a 100 AV highway field operational test

K Jang, N Lichtlé, E Vinitsky, A Shah, M Bunting… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024‏ - arxiv.org
In this article, we explore the technical details of the reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms
that were deployed in the largest field test of automated vehicles designed to smooth traffic …

Designing, simulating, and performing the 100-av field test for the circles consortium: Methodology and implementation of the largest mobile traffic control experiment …

M Ameli, S McQuade, JW Lee, M Bunting… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024‏ - arxiv.org
Previous controlled experiments on single-lane ring roads have shown that a single partially
autonomous vehicle (AV) can effectively mitigate traffic waves. This naturally prompts the …

Hierarchical speed planner for automated vehicles: A framework for Lagrangian variable speed limit in mixed-autonomy traffic

H Wang, Z Fu, JW Lee, HNZ Matin… - IEEE Control …, 2025‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article presents a novel hierarchical speed planning framework for variable speed limits
in mixed-autonomy traffic environments, leveraging server-side macroscopic control and …

Connected cruise and traffic control for pairs of connected automated vehicles

S Guo, G Orosz, TG Molnar - IEEE Transactions on Intelligent …, 2023‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper considers mixed traffic consisting of connected automated vehicles equipped
with vehicle-to-everything (V2X) connectivity and human-driven vehicles. A control strategy …

Cooperative driving for speed harmonization in mixed-traffic environments

Z Fu, AR Kreidieh, H Wang, JW Lee… - 2023 IEEE Intelligent …, 2023‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Autonomous driving systems present promising methods for congestion mitigation in mixed
autonomy traffic control settings. In particular, when coupled with even modest traffic state …

Where to Decide? Centralized Versus Distributed Vehicle Assignment for Platoon Formation

J Heinovski, F Dressler - IEEE Transactions on Intelligent …, 2024‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Platooning is a promising cooperative driving application for future intelligent transportation
systems. In order to assign vehicles to platoons, some algorithm for platoon formation is …