Smart Mobility Policies with Evolutionary Algorithms: The Adapting Info Panel Case

In this article we propose the Yellow Swarm architecture for reducing travel times, greenhouse gas emissions and fuel consumption of road traffic by using several LED panels to suggest changes in the direction of vehicles (detours) for different time slots. These time intervals are calculated using an evolutionary algorithm, specifically designed for our proposal, which evaluates many working scenarios based on real cities, imported from OpenStreetMap into the SUMO traffic simulator. Our results show an improvement in average travel times, emissions, and fuel consumption even when only a small percentage of drivers follow the indications provided by our panels.

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