Adaptive signal control and coordination for urban traffic control in a connected vehicle environment: A review
Jiangchen Li, Liqun Peng, Kaizhe Hou, Yong Tian, Yulin Ma, Shucai Xu, Tony Z. Qiu
Abstract
Existing signal control systems for urban traffic are usually based on traffic flow data from fixed location detectors. Because of rapid advances in emerging vehicular communication, connected vehicle (CV)-based signal control demonstrates significant improvements over existing conventional signal control systems. Though various CV-based signal control systems have been investigated in the past decades, these approaches still have many issues and drawbacks to overcome. We summarize typical components and structures of these existing CV-based urban traffic signal control systems and digest several important issues from the summarized vital concepts. Last, future research directions are discussed with some suggestions. We hope this survey can facilitate the connected and automated vehicle and transportation research community to efficiently approach next-generation urban traffic signal control methods and systems.