Introduction

This project has been published as the following conference paper:

Hua Wei*, Guanjie Zheng*, Huaxiu Yao, Zhenhui Li, IntelliLight: A Reinforcement Learning Approach for Intelligent Traffic Light Control, in Proceedings of the 2018 ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD'18), London, UK, August 2018.

(*Co-First author.)

The full paper and demo can be found at the author's website.

This project proposes a reinforcement learning based intelligent traffic light control system. Simply run the runexp.py to run the experiment. Please change the parameters in conf/ folder and runexp.py correspondingly if needed. Also, please specify the location of TraCI module in map_computor.py if necessary.

Before running above codes, you may need to install following packages or environments:

• Python 3.6
• SUMO 0.32 with TraCI module. Please specify TraCI location correpsondingly in map_computor.py
• Keras 2.2.0 and Tensorflow 1.9.0

Files in the folder

The files are functioning like this:

• runexp.py

  Load the experiment setting, and call traffic_light_agent.

• traffic_light_dqn.py

  Simulate the reinforcement learning agent. This file simulates the timeline, get current state from sumo_agent, get current state from sumo_agent and call the agent to make decision.

• sumo_agent.py

  Interact with map_computor to get state, reward from the map_computor, and convey action to map_computor.

• map_computor.py

  Read data from SUMO and operate SUMO.

• agent.py

  Abstract class of agent.

• network_agent.py

  Abstract class of neural network based agent.

• deeplight_agent.py

  Class of our method.

• conf/

  Configuration files.

• data/

  Traffic flow files. The intersection is connected with four road segments of 300-meters long.

If you are new to SUMO, hope these slides can help you with a good start (http://personal.psu.edu/hzw77/posts.html#sumo-introduction).

Citation

@inproceedings{wei2018intellilight,
  title={IntelliLight: A Reinforcement Learning Approach for Intelligent Traffic Light Control},
  author={Wei, Hua and Zheng, Guanjie and Yao, Huaxiu and Li, Zhenhui},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the 24th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery \& Data Mining},
  pages={2496--2505},
  year={2018},
  organization={ACM}
}