Method and apparatus for model-free optimal signal timing for sy

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ABSTRACT:
A method and apparatus for model-free, real-time, system-wide signal timing for a complex road network is provided. It provides timings in response to instantaneous flow conditions while accounting for the inherent stochastic variations in traffic flow through the use of a simultaneous perturbation stochastic approximation (SPSA) algorithm. This is achieved by setting up several (M) parallel neural networks, each of which produces optimal controls (signal timings) for any time instant (within one of the M time periods) based on observed traffic conditions. The SPSA optimization technique is critical to the feasibility of the approach since it provides the values of weight parameters in each of the neural networks without the need for a model of the traffic flow dynamics.

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