URB -- Urban Routing Benchmark for RL-equipped Connected Autonomous Vehicles

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Main Authors: Akman, Ahmet Onur, Psarou, Anastasia, Hoffmann, Michał, Gorczyca, Łukasz, Kowalski, Łukasz, Gora, Paweł, Jamróz, Grzegorz, Kucharski, Rafał
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author Akman, Ahmet Onur
Psarou, Anastasia
Hoffmann, Michał
Gorczyca, Łukasz
Kowalski, Łukasz
Gora, Paweł
Jamróz, Grzegorz
Kucharski, Rafał
author_facet Akman, Ahmet Onur
Psarou, Anastasia
Hoffmann, Michał
Gorczyca, Łukasz
Kowalski, Łukasz
Gora, Paweł
Jamróz, Grzegorz
Kucharski, Rafał
contents Connected Autonomous Vehicles (CAVs) promise to reduce congestion in future urban networks, potentially by optimizing their routing decisions. Unlike for human drivers, these decisions can be made with collective, data-driven policies, developed using machine learning algorithms. Reinforcement learning (RL) can facilitate the development of such collective routing strategies, yet standardized and realistic benchmarks are missing. To that end, we present URB: Urban Routing Benchmark for RL-equipped Connected Autonomous Vehicles. URB is a comprehensive benchmarking environment that unifies evaluation across 29 real-world traffic networks paired with realistic demand patterns. URB comes with a catalog of predefined tasks, multi-agent RL (MARL) algorithm implementations, three baseline methods, domain-specific performance metrics, and a modular configuration scheme. Our results show that, despite the lengthy and costly training, state-of-the-art MARL algorithms rarely outperformed humans. The experimental results reported in this paper initiate the first leaderboard for MARL in large-scale urban routing optimization. They reveal that current approaches struggle to scale, emphasizing the urgent need for advancements in this domain.
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spellingShingle URB -- Urban Routing Benchmark for RL-equipped Connected Autonomous Vehicles
Akman, Ahmet Onur
Psarou, Anastasia
Hoffmann, Michał
Gorczyca, Łukasz
Kowalski, Łukasz
Gora, Paweł
Jamróz, Grzegorz
Kucharski, Rafał
Machine Learning
Connected Autonomous Vehicles (CAVs) promise to reduce congestion in future urban networks, potentially by optimizing their routing decisions. Unlike for human drivers, these decisions can be made with collective, data-driven policies, developed using machine learning algorithms. Reinforcement learning (RL) can facilitate the development of such collective routing strategies, yet standardized and realistic benchmarks are missing. To that end, we present URB: Urban Routing Benchmark for RL-equipped Connected Autonomous Vehicles. URB is a comprehensive benchmarking environment that unifies evaluation across 29 real-world traffic networks paired with realistic demand patterns. URB comes with a catalog of predefined tasks, multi-agent RL (MARL) algorithm implementations, three baseline methods, domain-specific performance metrics, and a modular configuration scheme. Our results show that, despite the lengthy and costly training, state-of-the-art MARL algorithms rarely outperformed humans. The experimental results reported in this paper initiate the first leaderboard for MARL in large-scale urban routing optimization. They reveal that current approaches struggle to scale, emphasizing the urgent need for advancements in this domain.
title URB -- Urban Routing Benchmark for RL-equipped Connected Autonomous Vehicles
topic Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.17734