History-based Self-Organizing Traffic Lights

Authors

  • Juan C. Burguillo-Rial
  • Pedro S. Rodríguez-Hernández
  • Enrique Costa Montenegro
  • Felipe Gil Castiñeira

Abstract

Managing traffic in cities is nowadays a complex problem involving considerable physical and economical resources. Multi-agent Systems (MAS) consist of a set of distributed, usually co-operating, agents that act autonomously. The traffic in a city can be simulated by a MAS with different agents, cars and traffic lights, that interact to obtain an overall goal: to reduce average waiting times for the traffic users. In this paper, we describe an agent-based simulator to model traffic in cities.

Using this simulator, we present a self-organizing solution to efficiently manage urban traffic. We compare our proposal with recent approaches, providing better results than classical and alternative self-organizing methods, with lower resources and investments.

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Published

2012-01-26

How to Cite

Burguillo-Rial, J. C., Rodríguez-Hernández, P. S., Montenegro, E. C., & Castiñeira, F. G. (2012). History-based Self-Organizing Traffic Lights. COMPUTING AND INFORMATICS, 28(2), 157–168. Retrieved from https://www.cai.sk/ojs/index.php/cai/article/view/30