Traffic Coordination at Road Intersections: Autonomous Decision-Making Algorithms Using Model-Based Heuristics

This article focuses on the traffic coordination problem at traffic intersections. We present a decentralized coordination approach, combining optimal control with model-based heuristics. We show how model-based heuristics can lead to low-complexity solutions that are suit-able for a fast online implementation, and analyze its properties in terms of efficiency, feasibility and optimality. Finally, simulation results for dif-ferent scenarios are also presented.