Towards Co-operative Congestion Mitigation
This work addresses traffic congestion mitigation for everyday drivers, but it is incremental as it focuses on testing existing policies in new human-in-the-loop scenarios.
The paper tackles the problem of traffic congestion by proposing to evaluate piecewise constant driving policies in a shared control framework with real human drivers, using the CARLA simulator and Flow framework for user studies.
The effects of traffic congestion are widespread and are an impedance to everyday life. Piecewise constant driving policies have shown promise in helping mitigate traffic congestion in simulation environments. However, no works currently test these policies in situations involving real human users. Thus, we propose to evaluate these policies through the use of a shared control framework in a collaborative experiment with the human driver and the driving policy aiming to co-operatively mitigate congestion. We intend to use the CARLA simulator alongside the Flow framework to conduct user studies to evaluate the affect of piecewise constant driving policies. As such, we present our in-progress work in building our framework and discuss our proposed plan on evaluating this framework through a human-in-the-loop simulation user study.