Problem Definition

Problem Introduction

Traffic congestion is one of the most severe urban issues nowadays, which has resulted in tremendous economic cost and waste of people's time. Congestion is caused by many factors, such as overloaded number of vehicles and bad design of road structures. Some factors may require more sophisticated policy or long-term planning. But one direct factor that could be potentially improved by today's big data and advanced learning technology is traffic signal control. Therefore, this competition is hosted to encourage people to design novel and effective algorithms to allocate time resource for traffic lights reasonably and to mitigate traffic congestion.

Problem Definition

This competition provides the traffic flow data, traffic scenario data (single intersection), the simulator and a basic signal plan to the participants. During the first stage of the competition, the participants are required to provide the traffic signal plan for that traffic scenario. During the second stage, the participants are required to submit the model that generates the signal plan. The final result is the travel time of vehicles based on the traffic signal plans.