@inbook {CoolsEtAl2007, title = {Self-organizing traffic lights: A realistic simulation}, booktitle = {Self-Organization: Applied Multi-Agent Systems}, year = {2007}, pages = {41{\textendash}49}, publisher = {Springer}, organization = {Springer}, chapter = {3}, abstract = {We have previously shown in an abstract simulation (Gershenson, 2005) that self-organizing traffic lights can improve greatly traffic flow for any density. In this paper, we extend these results to a realistic setting, implementing self-organizing traffic lights in an advanced traffic simulator using real data from a Brussels avenue. On average, for different traffic densities, travel waiting times are reduced by 50\% compared to the current green wave method.}, doi = {10.1007/978-1-84628-982-8_3}, url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/nlin.AO/0610040}, author = {Seung Bae Cools and Carlos Gershenson and Bart {D{\textquoteright}Hooghe}}, editor = {Mikhail Prokopenko} }