Urban traffic control in game theoretic framework

  • Authors:

  • Istvan Harmati

  • Affiliations:

  • Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Department of Control Engineering and Information Technology, Budapest, Hungary

  • Venue:
  • ICOSSE'06 Proceedings of the 5th WSEAS international conference on System science and simulation in engineering
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

In this study, a game theoretic solution is proposed for urban traffic control. The concept relies on the idea that an urban network equipped by traffic lights in junctions can be considered as a multi-agent scenario. Every agent is a junctions and each of them has the right to make an own decision on the distribution of the green time lengths in its crossing. Any decision made by a junction intends to minimize the number of vehicles within its incoming road-links but any distribution of the leaving vehicles caused by a decision sets back the receiving junctions. The technique proposed in this paper converts the conflict situation arisen into a game theoretic problem. A suboptimal noncooperative solution for green time distribution of the junctions is also provided through an illustrative example of simple traffic network.