Traffic Control Optimization for Smart Cities

Optimal traffic control has the potential of improving urban mobility by alleviating congestion, reducing travel times, and minimising emissions in modern transportation systems, thus mitigating the overall environmental footprint of mobility. Recent advances in sensing technologies, communication infrastructure, and control algorithms allow us nowadays to solve complex optimization problems in real time, generating renewed interest in deploying optimal control strategies for traffic management. Yet, several challenges remain in bridging the gap between scalable mathematical models, real-time implementability, and mixed-autonomy dynamics.

This workshop aims to summarize recent findings related to optimal traffic control, foster interdisciplinary dialogue, promote collaboration across domains, identify key open problems at the frontier of smart city traffic control, and provide a venue for the intelligent transportation systems community to discuss future research directions to pursue, geared towards the implementation of smart cities. These objectives will be achieved through a proposed workshop program that features:

• Invited talks given by a set of speakers with expertise in applied mathematics, control theory, robotics, and transportation science

• Spotlight presentation given by authors of solicited contributions

• An interactive poster session during which workshop attendees will have the possibility of showing their latest findings

• A discussion session where speakers and attendees will discuss future research directions together with the workshop attendees