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Dealing with urban traffic is a highly complex task since it involves the coordination of many actors. Traditional approaches attempt to optimize traffic signal control for a particular vehicle density; the main disadvantage lies in the fact that traffic changes constantly. Managing traffic congestion seems to be a problem of adaptation rather than of optimization. In this work we present an agent-based traffic simulator which represents a traffic grid with two-way roads of three exclusive lanes per direction, with intersections regulated by signals. We study the repercussions on traffic flow of simple parametric behaviours when each light operates independently. A dominance analysis is applied to compare the strategies.
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Onieva, E. et al. (2012). Study of Traffic Flow Controlled with Independent Agent-Based Traffic Signals. In: Moreno-Díaz, R., Pichler, F., Quesada-Arencibia, A. (eds) Computer Aided Systems Theory – EUROCAST 2011. EUROCAST 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6928. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27579-1_49
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