Today I read a paper titled “Self-organizing traffic lights: A realistic simulation”
The abstract is:
We have previously shown in an abstract simulation (Gershenson, 2005) that self-organizing traffic lights can improve greatly traffic flow for any density.
In this paper, we extend these results to a realistic setting, implementing self-organizing traffic lights in an advanced traffic simulator using real data from a Brussels avenue.
On average, for different traffic densities, travel waiting times are reduced by 50% compared to the current green wave method.