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 …

Safety-critical traffic control by connected automated vehicles

C Zhao, H Yu, TG Molnar - Transportation research part C: emerging …, 2023 - Elsevier
Connected automated vehicles (CAVs) have shown great potential in improving traffic
throughput and stability. Although various longitudinal control strategies have been …

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 …

Enabling mixed autonomy traffic control

M Nice, M Bunting, A Richardson, G Zachar… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
We demonstrate a new capability of automated vehicles: mixed autonomy traffic control. With
this new capability, automated vehicles can shape the traffic flows composed of other non …

On the safety of connected cruise control: analysis and synthesis with control barrier functions

TG Molnar, G Orosz, AD Ames - 2023 62nd IEEE Conference …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Connected automated vehicles have shown great potential to improve the efficiency of
transportation systems in terms of passenger comfort, fuel economy, stability of driving …

Sailing cavs: Speed-adaptive infrastructure-linked connected and automated vehicles

M Nice, M Bunting, G Gunter, W Barbour… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
This work demonstrates a new capability in roadway control: Speed-adaptive, infrastructure-
linked connected and automated vehicles. We develop and deploy a lightly modified vehicle …

A middle way to traffic enlightenment

MW Nice, G Gunter, J Ji, Y Zhang… - 2024 ACM/IEEE 15th …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper introduces a novel approach that seeks a middle ground for traffic control in multi-
lane congestion, where prevailing traffic speeds are too fast, and speed recommendations …

MARVEL: Bringing Multi-Agent Reinforcement-Learning Based Variable Speed Limit Controllers Closer to Deployment

Y Zhang, M Quinones-Grueiro, Z Zhang, Y Wang… - IEEE …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Variable Speed Limit (VSL) is a promising highway traffic management strategy deployed
worldwide. Most algorithms deployed operate based on a set of predefined rules which …

Safe and Stable Connected Cruise Control for Connected Automated Vehicles with Response Lag

Y Chen, G Orosz, TG Molnar - arxiv preprint arxiv:2409.06884, 2024 - arxiv.org
Controlling connected automated vehicles (CAVs) via vehicle-to-everything (V2X)
connectivity holds significant promise for improving fuel economy and traffic efficiency …

[PDF][PDF] Safety-Critical Connected Cruise Control: Leveraging Connectivity for Safe and Efficient Longitudinal Control of Automated Vehicles

Y Chen, G Orosz, TG Molnar - 27th International Conference on …, 2024 - tamasmolnar.com
Leveraging connectivity for controlling connected automated vehicles (CAVs) has great
potential for improving the safety and efficiency of transportation. In this paper, we study the …