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Article

Digital Twin-Enhanced Adaptive Traffic Signal Framework under Limited Synchronization Conditions

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The Key Laboratory of Road and Traffic Engineering, Ministry of Education, College of Transportation Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai 201804, China
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Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong 999077, China
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Sustainability 2024, 16(13), 5502; https://doi.org/10.3390/su16135502
Submission received: 13 May 2024 / Revised: 19 June 2024 / Accepted: 23 June 2024 / Published: 27 June 2024
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Intelligent Transportation Systems towards Sustainable Transportation)

Abstract

Unmanned traffic signal control is regarded as a sustainable intelligent management methodology. However, it faces the challenge of unpredictable traffic flow due to stochastic arrivals. The digital twin (DT) has emerged as a promising approach to address the challenges of time-varying traffic demand in urban transportation. Previous studies of DT-based adaptive traffic signal control (ATSC) methods all assume ideal synchronization conditions between the DT and the physical twin (PT). It means that the DT can immediately figure out the next neglecting limitation of realistic conditions, i.e., discrepancies between the DT and PT and computational ability. This paper proposes a DT-ATSC framework aimed at reducing the total delay at isolated intersections under limited synchronization conditions. The framework contains two parts: (1) a cell transmission model-based intersection simulation model featuring less computational consumption and the parameter self-calibration mechanism; and (2) scheme searching algorithms that can guide the DT to create optimization-oriented signal timing scheme candidates. Three options are provided for the scheme searching algorithms, i.e., grid search (GS), the genetic algorithm (GA), and Bayesian optimization (BO). A testing platform is created to validate the effectiveness of the proposed DT-ATSC. Experimental results indicate that the proposed DT-ATSC-BO outperforms the DT-ATSC-GA and DT-ATSC-GS. Meanwhile, the average vehicle delay of the DT-ATSC-BO is up to 53% lower than that of the current adaptive signal control method, which indicates that the proposed DT-ATSC has achieved the expected effect. Moreover, compared to the previous related work, the proposed DT-ATSC framework is more likely to be able to be applied in realistic situations because synchronization issues are incorporated in the design of the DT-ATSC by assuming a limited margin time for a decision.
Keywords: sustainable smart traffic control; isolated signalized intersection; adaptive signal control; digital twin; synchronization problem sustainable smart traffic control; isolated signalized intersection; adaptive signal control; digital twin; synchronization problem

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Zhu, H.; Sun, F.; Tang, K.; Wu, H.; Feng, J.; Tang, Z. Digital Twin-Enhanced Adaptive Traffic Signal Framework under Limited Synchronization Conditions. Sustainability 2024, 16, 5502. https://doi.org/10.3390/su16135502

AMA Style

Zhu H, Sun F, Tang K, Wu H, Feng J, Tang Z. Digital Twin-Enhanced Adaptive Traffic Signal Framework under Limited Synchronization Conditions. Sustainability. 2024; 16(13):5502. https://doi.org/10.3390/su16135502

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Zhu, Hong, Fengmei Sun, Keshuang Tang, Hao Wu, Jialong Feng, and Zhixian Tang. 2024. "Digital Twin-Enhanced Adaptive Traffic Signal Framework under Limited Synchronization Conditions" Sustainability 16, no. 13: 5502. https://doi.org/10.3390/su16135502

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