City intersection signal control based on fusion attention mechanism LSTM network
With agrowing number of vehicles in China, urban road intersections easily experience heavy congestion under high-density traffic conditions.To ease the traffic congestion at intersections, Deep Reinforcement Learning has been gradually applied to intersection signal control.However, existing intersection signal control strategies fail to consider the weighted features and have difficulties in extracting temporal features of traffic flow status information.To address these issues, this study proposes an improved DQL algorithm based on the Deep Q-learning (DQL) algorithm.The algorithm utilizes attention mechanisms to enhances the weight of long-distance congestion state information within intersections.Furthermore, a Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) network is employed to learn the historical data of traffic flow, addressing the issues of insufficient consideration of the importance of different parts of the data and sub-optimal extraction of historical data information in DQL algorithm.Our experimental results show that the improved DQL algorithm is able to reduce the cumulative waiting time of vehicles by 20% and the average number of queued vehicles by 21.2% compared with the original algorithm, improving the efficiency of vehicle passage at intersections.
intersection signal controldeep reinforcement learningattention mechanismLSTMtraffic efficiency