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Annual Review of Control, Robotics, and Autonomous Systems

Volume 8, 2025

Modeling, Monitoring, and Controlling Road Traffic Using Vehicles to Sense and Act

Abstract

This review offers a comprehensive overview of current traffic modeling, estimation, and control methods, along with resulting field experiments. It highlights key developments and future directions in leveraging technological advancements to improve traffic management and safety. The focus is on macroscopic, microscopic, and micro-macro models, as well as state-of-the-art control techniques and estimation methods for deploying vehicles in traffic field experiments.

Keyword(s): field experiments, traffic control, traffic estimation, traffic modeling
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