Signalized Intersection Control in Mixed Autonomous and Regular Vehicles Traffic Environment - A Critical Review Focusing on Future Control

Mohammed Al-Turki*, Nedal T. Ratrout, Syed Masiur Rahman, Khaled J. Assi

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Abstract

The recent advancement in industrial technology has offered new opportunities to overcome different problems of stochastic driving behavior of humans through effective implementation of autonomous vehicles (AVs). Optimum utilization of driving behavior and advanced capabilities of the AVs has enabled researchers to propose autonomous cooperative-based methods for signalized intersection control under an AV traffic environment. In the future, AVs will share road networks with regular vehicles (RVs), representing a dynamic mixed traffic environment of two groups of vehicles with different characteristics. Without compromising the safety and level of service, traffic operation and control of such a complex environment is a challenging task. The current study includes a comprehensive review focused on the signalized intersection control methods under a mixed traffic environment. The different proposed methods in the literature are based on certain assumptions, requirements, and constraints mainly associated with traffic composition, connectivity, road infrastructures, intersection, and functional network design. Therefore, these methods should be evaluated with appropriate consideration of the underlying assumptions and limitations. This study concludes that the application of adaptive traffic signal control can effectively optimize traffic signal plans for variations of AV traffic environments. However, artificial intelligence approaches primarily focusing on reinforcement learning should be considered to better utilization of the improved AV characteristics.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)16942-16951
Number of pages10
JournalIEEE Access
Volume10
DOIs
StatePublished - 2022

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Keywords

  • Autonomous intersection control
  • autonomous vehicle (AV)
  • hybrid methods
  • mixed traffic environment
  • regular vehicle (RV)
  • signalized intersection control
  • traffic signal optimization

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Computer Science
  • General Materials Science
  • General Engineering

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