%0 Book Section %B Self-Organization: Applied Multi-Agent Systems %D 2007 %T Self-organizing traffic lights: A realistic simulation %A Seung Bae Cools %A Carlos Gershenson %A Bart {D'Hooghe} %E Mikhail Prokopenko %X 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. %B Self-Organization: Applied Multi-Agent Systems %I Springer %P 41–49 %G eng %U http://arxiv.org/abs/nlin.AO/0610040 %& 3 %R 10.1007/978-1-84628-982-8_3