Abstract:In traffic engineering, fixed-time traffic signal control remains widely used for its low cost, stability, and interpretability. However, its design relies on hand-crafted formulas (e.g., Webster) and manual re-timing by engineers to adapt to demand changes, which is labor-intensive and often yields suboptimal results under heterogeneous or congested conditions. This paper introduces EvolveSignal, an LLM-powered coding agent for automatically discovering interpretable heuristic strategies for fixed-time traffic signal control. Rather than deriving entirely new analytical formulations, the proposed framework focuses on exploring code-level variations of existing control logic and identifying effective combinations of heuristic modifications. We formulate the problem as program synthesis, where candidate strategies are represented as Python functions with fixed input-output structures and iteratively optimized through external evaluations (e.g., a traffic simulator) and evolutionary search. Experiments on a signalized intersection demonstrate that the discovered strategies outperform a classical baseline (Webster's method), reducing average delay by 20.1\% and average stops by 47.1\%. Beyond performance, ablation and incremental analyses reveal that EvolveSignal can identify meaningful modifications, such as adjusting cycle length bounds, incorporating right-turn demand, and rescaling green allocations, that provide useful insights for traffic engineers. This work highlights the potential of LLM-driven program synthesis for supporting interpretable and automated heuristic design in traffic signal control.
| Subjects: | Machine Learning (cs.LG) |
| Cite as: | arXiv:2509.03335 [cs.LG] |
| (or arXiv:2509.03335v3 [cs.LG] for this version) | |
| https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2509.03335 arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite |
From: Leizhen Wang [view email]
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