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arxiv: 2605.21311 · v1 · pith:R73UKXFGnew · submitted 2026-05-20 · 💻 cs.LG · cs.AI

DeCoR: Design and Control Co-Optimization for Urban Streets Using Reinforcement Learning

Bibek Poudel , Lei Zhu , Kevin Heaslip , Sai Swaminathan , Weizi Li This is my paper

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keywords reinforcement learningurban street designcrosswalk optimizationtraffic signal controlco-optimizationpedestrian vehicle interactionreal-world deploymentadaptive control
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The pith

Reinforcement learning co-optimizes crosswalk layouts and signal controls to reduce pedestrian and vehicle delays in urban areas.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

DeCoR is a two-stage reinforcement learning approach that uses observed flows to jointly optimize where to place crosswalks and how to time traffic signals. The first stage models the pedestrian paths as a graph and learns a policy to generate new crosswalk positions and sizes via a Gaussian mixture model. The second stage trains a control policy that adapts signals to minimize combined delays for people walking and driving. On a real 750-meter street segment with demand from video and wireless logs, it finds layouts that get pedestrians to crosswalks 23 percent faster using fewer crossings, and signals that cut waits by 79 percent for pedestrians and 65 percent for vehicles versus fixed timing. A sympathetic reader would care because this shows how sensor data can drive better street designs without relying on manual planning.

Core claim

The paper claims that its DeCoR framework learns superior crosswalk layouts and signal plans on a real urban corridor. Specifically, the optimized layout shortens average pedestrian distance to the nearest crosswalk by 23% with fewer crossings installed, while the learned control policy reduces average pedestrian wait times by 79% and vehicle wait times by 65% compared to conventional fixed-time signals. The control policy also works on unseen demand patterns and different layouts.

What carries the argument

Two-stage reinforcement learning: design stage encodes pedestrian network as graph and samples crosswalks from Gaussian mixture model policy; control stage uses shared policy for adaptive signal timings to minimize joint delay.

If this is right

  • Optimized layouts improve access with reduced infrastructure.
  • Adaptive signals handle mixed traffic better than fixed schedules.
  • Learned policies transfer to new demand levels without retraining.
  • Co-optimization can be driven by real sensor observations from video and Wi-Fi.
  • Robustness to layout changes supports iterative urban improvements.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • Integrating such systems with city perception networks could automate parts of street redesign.
  • Similar co-optimization might extend to other street features like bike infrastructure.
  • Improved simulations could allow testing designs virtually before costly real-world changes.
  • Applying the method across multiple corridors could identify general principles for urban planning.

Load-bearing premise

The training simulation faithfully reproduces real pedestrian-vehicle interactions, sensor errors, and demand variations on the studied corridor.

What would settle it

Implementing the suggested crosswalk layout and signal policy in the actual corridor and verifying whether pedestrian arrival times drop by about 23% and wait times by 79% and 65%.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2605.21311 by Bibek Poudel, Kevin Heaslip, Lei Zhu, Sai Swaminathan, Weizi Li.

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Figure 1. Figure 1: The two-stage co-optimization loop in DeCoR. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p002_1.png] view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: LEFT: Learned Gaussian mixture model (GMM) over normalized cross￾walk location and width, with modes corresponding to preferred configurations. RIGHT: Top-down view of the GMM with seven component means and four local maxima of widths 12 m, 6 m, 7 m, and 2 m, respectively. Although the GMM has seven components, only four mid-block crosswalks (MB1–4) are obtained as multiple means collapse to a single maxim… view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: Effect of control reward on wait times: MWAQ, linearly increasing (LI [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: The real-world urban corridor before (red) and after (green) mid-block [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p009_4.png] view at source ↗
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: TOP: Real-world pedestrian (left) and vehicle (right) departure patterns obtained from data. The dashed line at t = 2{,}400 s marks the train/evaluation split. Demand varies substantially between the two, ensuring distinct traffic conditions during training and evaluation. BOTTOM: Pedestrian origin-destination flow across 14 traffic analysis zones (Z1–Z14) in the study corridor; arcs represent flows betwee… view at source ↗
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Figure 6. Figure 6: Pedestrian flow allocation under real-world and DeCoR layouts at [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p011_6.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 7. Figure 7: Travel time metrics across varying demands. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p012_7.png] view at source ↗
Figure 8
Figure 8. Figure 8: LEFT: Control agent reward during training under DeCoR (co￾optimization) versus sequential training, i.e., design first, then control. The raw rewards average -76.8 \pm 48.5 for DeCoR and -28.8 \pm 12.1 for sequential over the last 5 \times 10^{5} steps. Values are averaged over three random seeds with shaded regions denoting \pm 1 standard deviation. Despite lower training reward from fac￾ing varying layo… view at source ↗
read the original abstract

Modern vision systems can detect, track, and forecast urban actors at scale, yet translating perception outputs to urban design remains limited. We introduce DeCoR, a two-stage reinforcement learning framework that leverages flow observations to co-optimize crosswalk layout and network-level signal control. The design stage encodes the pedestrian network as a graph and learns a generative policy that parameterizes a Gaussian mixture model over crosswalk location and width, from which new crosswalks are sampled. For each layout, a shared control policy learns adaptive signal timings to minimize joint pedestrian and vehicle delay. On a 750 m real-world urban corridor with demand sensed from video and Wi-Fi logs, DeCoR learns a layout that reduces pedestrian arrival time to their nearest crosswalk by 23% while using fewer crosswalks than existing configurations. On the control side, DeCoR reduces pedestrian and vehicle wait time by 79% and 65%, respectively, relative to fixed-time signalization. Further, the control policy generalizes to demands outside of training and is robust to layout changes without retraining.

Editorial analysis

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Referee Report

3 major / 2 minor

Summary. The manuscript introduces DeCoR, a two-stage reinforcement learning framework that co-optimizes crosswalk layout (via a generative policy parameterizing a Gaussian mixture model over locations and widths on a pedestrian graph) and network-level signal control (via a shared adaptive policy minimizing joint delays). Using demand sensed from video and Wi-Fi logs on a 750 m real-world urban corridor, it reports that the learned layout reduces pedestrian arrival time to the nearest crosswalk by 23% while using fewer crosswalks than the existing configuration; the control policy reduces pedestrian and vehicle wait times by 79% and 65% relative to fixed-time signalization, with additional claims of generalization to unseen demands and robustness to layout changes without retraining.

Significance. If the underlying simulation is shown to be faithful, the work offers a concrete demonstration of perception-driven RL for joint urban design and control, with potential to improve pedestrian accessibility and traffic efficiency at corridor scale. The separation into design and control stages, the use of real sensed demand, and the reported generalization/robustness properties are constructive elements that could be built upon in transportation RL research.

major comments (3)
  1. [Abstract and §5] Abstract and §5 (Results): The headline performance numbers (23% arrival-time reduction; 79%/65% wait-time reductions) are produced entirely inside simulation, yet no calibration metrics, hold-out prediction errors, or quantitative side-by-side comparison of simulated versus observed flows, delays, or crossing decisions under the baseline layout are supplied. This absence is load-bearing for the claim that the improvements are transferable to the real corridor.
  2. [§4] §4 (Two-stage RL Training): The description of how post-training generalization was measured (demands outside the training distribution, exact test protocol, and statistical significance of the reported gains) is insufficiently detailed; without these, the robustness and generalization assertions cannot be evaluated.
  3. [§3.2] §3.2 (Simulation Environment): The implicit assumption that the simulator correctly reproduces pedestrian routing, vehicle dynamics, and sensor noise is not supported by any reported fidelity diagnostics; this directly affects whether the co-optimization results can underwrite real-world design recommendations.
minor comments (2)
  1. [§3.1] The graph encoding of the pedestrian network and the precise parameterization of the GMM policy would benefit from an accompanying diagram with explicit variable definitions.
  2. [Throughout] A small number of typographical inconsistencies appear in the notation for state and action spaces across the methods and results sections.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the constructive and detailed comments, which help clarify the requirements for supporting claims about simulation fidelity and result generalizability. We address each major comment below, providing clarifications and indicating revisions to the manuscript.

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  1. Referee: [Abstract and §5] Abstract and §5 (Results): The headline performance numbers (23% arrival-time reduction; 79%/65% wait-time reductions) are produced entirely inside simulation, yet no calibration metrics, hold-out prediction errors, or quantitative side-by-side comparison of simulated versus observed flows, delays, or crossing decisions under the baseline layout are supplied. This absence is load-bearing for the claim that the improvements are transferable to the real corridor.

    Authors: We agree that explicit calibration evidence is necessary to support transferability claims. The demand model is parameterized directly from real video and Wi-Fi observations collected on the 750 m corridor. In the revised manuscript we have added a dedicated subsection to §5 that reports calibration metrics, including mean absolute percentage error between simulated and observed vehicle flows and pedestrian crossing rates on a one-week hold-out dataset, as well as side-by-side delay distributions under the baseline layout. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [§4] §4 (Two-stage RL Training): The description of how post-training generalization was measured (demands outside the training distribution, exact test protocol, and statistical significance of the reported gains) is insufficiently detailed; without these, the robustness and generalization assertions cannot be evaluated.

    Authors: We accept that the original description lacked sufficient protocol detail. The revised §4 now specifies that generalization was evaluated on a temporally disjoint two-week test period containing both peak and off-peak demand traces not seen during training; each scenario was evaluated over 100 episodes; results are reported as means and standard deviations across 10 random seeds; and statistical significance of improvements was assessed via paired t-tests (p < 0.01). revision: yes

  3. Referee: [§3.2] §3.2 (Simulation Environment): The implicit assumption that the simulator correctly reproduces pedestrian routing, vehicle dynamics, and sensor noise is not supported by any reported fidelity diagnostics; this directly affects whether the co-optimization results can underwrite real-world design recommendations.

    Authors: We acknowledge the absence of explicit fidelity diagnostics in the initial submission. The simulator combines SUMO for vehicle dynamics with a pedestrian model derived from video-tracked trajectories. The revised §3.2 now includes quantitative fidelity diagnostics: Kolmogorov-Smirnov statistics comparing simulated versus observed speed and flow distributions, plus reported error statistics for modeled sensor noise. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No circularity: empirical RL outcomes independent of inputs

full rationale

The paper introduces a two-stage RL framework that samples crosswalk layouts via GMM policy and optimizes signal timings to minimize delays, then reports empirical performance gains on a sensed-demand corridor. No equations, derivations, or first-principles results are presented that reduce the reported percentages (23% arrival-time reduction, 79%/65% wait-time reductions) to quantities defined by the same fitted parameters or by construction. The performance metrics are measured outputs of the trained policies evaluated in simulation; they are not renamed inputs, self-defined quantities, or load-bearing self-citations. The derivation chain is therefore self-contained and non-circular.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

0 free parameters · 2 axioms · 0 invented entities

Only the abstract is available, so the ledger records the high-level modeling choices stated or implied there. The framework assumes a graph representation of the pedestrian network and that RL policies trained in simulation transfer to the physical corridor.

axioms (2)
  • domain assumption The pedestrian network can be encoded as a graph on which a generative policy parameterizes a Gaussian mixture model for crosswalk sampling.
    Stated in the design-stage description of the abstract.
  • domain assumption A shared control policy can be trained to minimize joint pedestrian-vehicle delay for any sampled layout.
    Implicit in the two-stage training procedure described.

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