Weizi Li, an assistant professor in the Min H. Kao Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, had an article published this week in The Conversation.

Li’s article, titled: Robocars promise to improve traffic even when most of the cars around them are driven by people, study finds, discusses a recent study he conducted with colleagues that concluded robotic vehicles can optimize the flow of traffic in cities even when mixed in with vehicles driven by humans.

Traffic problems continue to plague most major cities, leading to significant economic and environmental costs. Li’s study offers a potential option to alleviate the problem by harnessing artificial intelligence to develop algorithms to control the complex mixed traffic system.

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