Traffic Signal Control with Deep Reinforcement Learning

Abstract

To decrease the impact of Partially Observable MDP on deep reinforcement learning performance of intersection signal control, A deep reinforcement learning is proposed in this paper with utilizing the real-time GPS data as well as learning the control of the traffic lights in single intersection. We integrate deep reinforcement learning network (DRQN) with recurrent neural network (RNN) and apply deep network, experience pool and greedy strategy in deep reinforcement learning strategy. It solves the problem of overestimation of target Q value and insufficient long-term experience learning in the standard reinforcement learning of traffic signal control. The comparison of performance was made between the proposed method and standard Deep Q-Network (DQN) on the partial observation of traffic situations. The experimental results show that both DQN and DRQN methods can adjust their traffic signal timing control strategies according to the specific traffic conditions as well as calculating a lower average delay time of vehicle than that of fixed-time control. Besides, the simulation effect of DRQN learning method is better than that of DQN learning method in different probe vehicle proportion environment.