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26 September 2026

29 Pages

Learning Scheduling Method for Mixed Traffic at Autonomous Intersections Without Reliable Explicit Turn Information of Human-Driven Vehicles

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Shenzhen Lianming Power Co., Ltd., Shenzhen 518105, China
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The Intelligent Transportation Systems Research Center, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan 430063, China
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Department of Data and Systems Engineering, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR 999077, China
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Suzhou Automotive Research Institute, Tsinghua University, Suzhou 215134, China

Abstract

At autonomous intersections in mixed traffic, where Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CAVs) coexist with Human-Driven Vehicles (HDVs), scheduling must remain effective even when a reliable explicit HDV turning intention is not available sufficiently early for the scheduling decision. This paper proposes a learning-based platoon scheduling method for this information-limited setting. CAVs and HDVs are organized into mixed platoons or an HDV group, and a state-augmentation function is designed to encode their temporal relationship while preserving the priority of uncontrollable HDVs. An enumeration (EN)-based expert demonstration mechanism is further integrated into the training process to provide high-quality experience. In the representative training run reported in the manuscript, the expert-assisted model achieved a peak average reward approximately 14% higher than the model trained without demonstrations. Across the tested demand cases, the learned scheduler also obtained travel-cost performance close to the EN benchmark. The scope of the method is explicitly limited to the modeled lane-keeping and sensing assumptions; robustness to random seeds, unexpected HDV maneuvers, communication delays, and additional safety metrics requires dedicated validation.

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