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Digital Twin-Enhanced Adaptive Traffic Signal Framework under Limited Synchronization Conditions

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  • Hong Zhu

    (The Key Laboratory of Road and Traffic Engineering, Ministry of Education, College of Transportation Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai 201804, China)

  • Fengmei Sun

    (The Key Laboratory of Road and Traffic Engineering, Ministry of Education, College of Transportation Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai 201804, China)

  • Keshuang Tang

    (The Key Laboratory of Road and Traffic Engineering, Ministry of Education, College of Transportation Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai 201804, China)

  • Hao Wu

    (The Key Laboratory of Road and Traffic Engineering, Ministry of Education, College of Transportation Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai 201804, China)

  • Jialong Feng

    (The Key Laboratory of Road and Traffic Engineering, Ministry of Education, College of Transportation Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai 201804, China)

  • Zhixian Tang

    (Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong 999077, China)

Abstract

Unmanned traffic signal control is regarded as a sustainable intelligent management methodology. However, it faces the challenge of unpredictable traffic flow due to stochastic arrivals. The digital twin (DT) has emerged as a promising approach to address the challenges of time-varying traffic demand in urban transportation. Previous studies of DT-based adaptive traffic signal control (ATSC) methods all assume ideal synchronization conditions between the DT and the physical twin (PT). It means that the DT can immediately figure out the next neglecting limitation of realistic conditions, i.e., discrepancies between the DT and PT and computational ability. This paper proposes a DT-ATSC framework aimed at reducing the total delay at isolated intersections under limited synchronization conditions. The framework contains two parts: (1) a cell transmission model-based intersection simulation model featuring less computational consumption and the parameter self-calibration mechanism; and (2) scheme searching algorithms that can guide the DT to create optimization-oriented signal timing scheme candidates. Three options are provided for the scheme searching algorithms, i.e., grid search (GS), the genetic algorithm (GA), and Bayesian optimization (BO). A testing platform is created to validate the effectiveness of the proposed DT-ATSC. Experimental results indicate that the proposed DT-ATSC-BO outperforms the DT-ATSC-GA and DT-ATSC-GS. Meanwhile, the average vehicle delay of the DT-ATSC-BO is up to 53% lower than that of the current adaptive signal control method, which indicates that the proposed DT-ATSC has achieved the expected effect. Moreover, compared to the previous related work, the proposed DT-ATSC framework is more likely to be able to be applied in realistic situations because synchronization issues are incorporated in the design of the DT-ATSC by assuming a limited margin time for a decision.

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  • Hong Zhu & Fengmei Sun & Keshuang Tang & Hao Wu & Jialong Feng & Zhixian Tang, 2024. "Digital Twin-Enhanced Adaptive Traffic Signal Framework under Limited Synchronization Conditions," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 16(13), pages 1-19, June.
  • Handle: RePEc:gam:jsusta:v:16:y:2024:i:13:p:5502-:d:1424220
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