Decentralized variable speed limit Bellman control
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2025-06
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Variable Speed Limit control can help avoid traffic jams before congestion forms. Vehicles upstream are required to decelerate at times in order to stop emerging congestion from propagating. This work proposes a fully decentralized, model-free, and infrastructure-free approach to Variable Speed Limit control, that employs connected vehicles as communication infrastructure, and as moving sensors and actuators. Dedicated Short Range Communication, consensus, and gossip algorithms, and a Bellman controller are components of this approach. The proposed method achieves significant improvements in traffic states, with up to 15% higher speeds, 5% lower density, and 8% higher flows. Significant improvements can be achieved at a compliance rate of at least 25% of all vehicles. Moreover, the approach is robust to gaps between platoons and recovers from periods of disconnection. The proposed method achieves traffic improvements similar to previous, centralized approaches, without the necessity of any infrastructure or model knowledge.
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13th Symposium of the European Association for Research in Transportation (hEART 2025)
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Artificial intelligence and big data analytics; Automated and connected driving; Variable speed limit control; Consensus algorithm; Decentralized control
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08686 - Gruppe Strassenverkehrstechnik
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Is documented by: https://doi.org/10.3929/ethz-b-000741317