Gustav NILSSON - Doctoral student at Lund University - GENERALIZED PROPORTIONAL ALLOCATION FOR TRAFFIC SIGNAL CONTROL

Abstract
With the recent sensor development, it is now possible to obtain real-time information about the traffic state in
road information. Such information opens up the possibility to utilise feedback control to improve the performance
of traffic networks.
In this seminar, dr Nilsson will present a green light allocation policy for traffic lights. This kind of policy can stabilise
the queue lengths in a traffic network whenever any control policy can stabilise the queue lengths. Moreover,
the proposed controller has the benefits that it requires no information about the network topology, the driver’s
route choices, or some average arrival rates. These properties make the controller both resilient to perturbations
in the network and scalable. Validation results of the controller in the micro simulator SUMO will also be presented.
Biografy
Gustav Nilsson got his Master of Engineering Physics degree from Lund University in 2013. Since then, he has
been a PhD student at the Department of Automatic Control, Lund University, working with Prof. Giacomo Como.
Between October 2017 and March 2018, he did an internship at Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories in
Cambridge, Massachusetts U.S.A.
His primary research interest lies in Distributed Control of Dynamical Flow Networks with applications to traffic
networks.

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