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Promoted Traffic Control Strategy Based on Q Learning and Dynamic Weight

ZHANG Chen, YU Jian and HE Liang-hua   

  • Online:2018-12-01 Published:2018-12-01

Abstract: Q-Learning is widely used in traffic signal control.In traditional multi-agent traffic signal control policy,agents gain intersection information via network,and make the best control decision.It works well in most cases.But traditional policy has a weakness that the global reward is calculated by simple average.This may cause local block in some cases.This paper introduced a promoted area traffic signal control based on Q learning.“Intersection Weight” is used in the new calculation method,which varies dynamically according to the real traffic condition.Both traditional and promoted methods were used to experiment.The results show the advantage of the promoted one.

Key words: Q learning,Area traffic control,Intersection weight

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