Counting Cars: New AI-Driven Approach Fine-Tunes Road Tolls to Reduce Traffic

Overhead graphic of intersecting highwayr ramps filled with vehicles
An algorithm that adjusts tolls based on the number of cars traveling on a road at a given time could improve congestion pricing and reduce traffic. Devansh Jalota, PhD student along with advisor Marco Pavone aim to combine their 2021 paper on ensuring equity in congestion pricing to this learning-based approach.