The Circle Of Good.
A story about a diary I never used, the students I never expected to help, and how something that began for entirely selfish reasons became something much bigger.
article30 Oct 2026
VECTOR · one-year research release
Ready for Pilot Testing.
VECTOR has completed its first full adversarial simulation audit. The next milestone: an independently reviewed, offline research pilot.
Pilot scope: offline, shadow-only research. No connection to live public traffic signals.
36signalized intersections
16traffic scenarios
800held-out simulation trials
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VECTOR · one-year research release
audit f8e863f
The first full adversarial simulation audit.
- what it is for
- Adaptive traffic-signal control: timing that responds to the queues each junction observes, with priority for emergency vehicles.
- what was tested
- 36 signal-controlled intersections in a synthetic SUMO grid — not a real city — across 16 scenarios and 5 controller arms: 800 held-out trials, all completed, from a protocol frozen before they ran.
- what it showed
- Lower mean time loss than 30 s fixed-time control in 15 of 16 scenarios (84.0–218.5 s per vehicle). Emergency trips 39.3–138.0 s faster than native control in 9 of 11 comparisons — but in saturated scenario K the police car arrived in 5 of 10 runs, against 7 under native control.
- what it did not
- The strongest baseline remains ahead. VECTOR was better than SUMO’s native actuated controller in 0 of 16 scenarios, and significantly worse in B after Holm correction: +73.6 s per vehicle [+26.6, +120.5].
next milestone
An independently reviewed, offline research pilot. Pilot scope: offline, shadow-only research. No connection to live public traffic signals.
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