0610040 (Seung-Bae Cools et al.)

Self-organizing traffic lights: A realistic simulation    [PDF]

Seung-Bae Cools, Carlos Gershenson, Bart D'Hooghe

We have previously shown in an abstract simulation (Gershenson, 2005) that self-organizing traffic lights can improve greatly traffic flow for any density. In this paper, we extend these results to a realistic setting, implementing self-organizing traffic lights in an advanced traffic simulator using real data from a Brussels avenue. On average, for different traffic densities, travel waiting times are reduced by 50% compared to the current green wave method.

View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/0610040