Adaptability and sustainability of machine learning approaches to traffic signal control

Abstract

AbstractThis study investigates how adaptable Machine Learning Traffic Signal control methods are to topological variability. We ask how well can these methods generalize to non-Manhattan-like networks with non-uniform distances between intersections. A Machine Learning method that is highly reliable in various topologies is proposed and compared with state-of-the-art alternatives. Lastly, we analyze the sustainability of different traffic signal control methods based on computational efforts required to achieve convergence and perform training and testing. We show that our method achieves an approximately seven-fold improvement in terms of CO$$_2$$ 2 emitted in training over the second-best method.