Deliberative Self-Organizing Traffic Lights with Elementary Cellular Automata

الملخص EN

Self-organizing traffic lights have shown considerable improvements compared to traditional methods in computer simulations.

Self-organizing methods, however, use sophisticated sensors, increasing their cost and limiting their deployment.

We propose a novel approach using simple sensors to achieve self-organizing traffic light coordination.

The proposed approach involves placing a computer and a presence sensor at the beginning of each block; each such sensor detects a single vehicle.

Each computer builds a virtual environment simulating vehicle movement to predict arrivals and departures at the downstream intersection.

At each intersection, a computer receives information across a data network from the computers of the neighboring blocks and runs a self-organizing method to control traffic lights.

Our simulations showed a superior performance for our approach compared with a traditional method (a green wave) and a similar performance (close to optimal) compared with a self-organizing method using sophisticated sensors but at a lower cost.

Moreover, the developed sensing approach exhibited greater robustness against sensor failures.