Freeway traffic control: A survey

S Siri, C Pasquale, S Sacone, A Ferrara - Automatica, 2021 - Elsevier
Freeway traffic control is a broad research area, not only interesting for its applicative
perspective, but also highly motivating for theoretical investigations. This research topic has …

Dissipation of stop-and-go waves via control of autonomous vehicles: Field experiments

RE Stern, S Cui, ML Delle Monache, R Bhadani… - … Research Part C …, 2018 - Elsevier
Traffic waves are phenomena that emerge when the vehicular density exceeds a critical
threshold. Considering the presence of increasingly automated vehicles in the traffic stream …

First-order traffic flow models incorporating capacity drop: Overview and real-data validation

M Kontorinaki, A Spiliopoulou, C Roncoli… - … Research Part B …, 2017 - Elsevier
First-order traffic flow models of the LWR (Lighthill-Whitham-Richards) type are known for
their simplicity and computational efficiency and have, for this reason, been widely used for …

A new reinforcement learning-based variable speed limit control approach to improve traffic efficiency against freeway jam waves

Y Han, A Hegyi, L Zhang, Z He, E Chung… - … research part C: emerging …, 2022 - Elsevier
Conventional reinforcement learning (RL) models of variable speed limit (VSL) control
systems (and traffic control systems in general) cannot be trained in real traffic process …

[CARTE][B] Traffic congestion control by PDE backstep**

H Yu, M Krstic - 2022 - Springer
This book explores the development of PDE (partial differential equation) backstep**
controllers for the suppression of stop-and-go instabilities and oscillations in congested …

Hierarchical ramp metering in freeways: An aggregated modeling and control approach

Y Han, M Ramezani, A Hegyi, Y Yuan… - … research part C …, 2020 - Elsevier
This paper develops a model-based hierarchical control method for coordinated ramp
metering on freeway networks with multiple bottlenecks and on-and off-ramps. The controller …

Enhancing transferability of deep reinforcement learning-based variable speed limit control using transfer learning

Z Ke, Z Li, Z Cao, P Liu - IEEE Transactions on Intelligent …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The study aims to evaluate the performance of the transfer learning algorithm to enhance the
transferability of a deep reinforcement learning-based variable speed limits (VSL) control …

MPC-based dynamic speed control of CAVs in multiple sections upstream of the bottleneck area within a mixed vehicular environment

H Ding, L Zhang, J Chen, X Zheng, H Pan… - Physica A: Statistical …, 2023 - Elsevier
The traffic congestion phenomenon in bottleneck areas is always a difficult problem that
occurs in many freeways. To reduce traffic congestion and improve the safety of bottleneck …

A linear Lagrangian model predictive controller of macro-and micro-variable speed limits to eliminate freeway jam waves

Y Han, M Wang, Z He, Z Li, H Wang, P Liu - Transportation research part C …, 2021 - Elsevier
Variable speed limits (VSLs) are a common traffic control measure to resolve freeway jam
waves. State-of-the-art model predictive control (MPC) approaches of VSLs are developed …

Optimal internal boundary control of lane-free automated vehicle traffic

M Malekzadeh, I Papamichail, M Papageorgiou… - … Research Part C …, 2021 - Elsevier
A recently proposed paradigm for vehicular traffic in the era of CAV (connected and
automated vehicles), called TrafficFluid, involves lane-free vehicle movement. Lane-free …