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Research Article | Open Access | Just Accepted

Dynamically local-enhancement planner for large-scale autonomous driving

Nanshan Deng1,Weitao Zhou1,( )Yifei He1Qian Cheng1Bo Zhang2Junze Wen1Chunyang Liu2Jianmo He2Xiang Sha2Zelin Qian2Kun Jiang1Mengmeng Yang1Zhong Cao3Diange Yang1( )

1 School of Vehicle and Mobility, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China

2 Didi Chuxing, Beijing100095, China

3 Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Michigan, Michigan 48109, USA 

Nanshan Deng and Weitao Zhou contributed equally to this work. 

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Current autonomous vehicles are typically deployed within limited geographic regions, while scalable operation across diverse locations is increasingly demanded. As deployment regions expand, planners must cope with heterogeneous traffic dynamics under fixed on-board computational and memory budgets, where adapting a single monolithic model through data aggregation or parameter expansion becomes inefficient and costly. This paper proposes the Dynamically Local-Enhancement (DLE) planner, which improves region-level adaptability without increasing policy capacity or performing full online policy optimization during deployment. Global driving competence is decoupled from region-specific adaptation through explicit region-conditioned representations. Long-term regional characteristics are distilled into map-level historical memory via a latent-variable encoder, while real-time interactions are modeled by a dual-layer traffic graph neural network that jointly captures vehicle interactions and road topology. The resulting region-conditioned representation is used to condition a shared reinforcement learning planner at inference time, where dynamic behavior arises from location-indexed retrieval and conditional forward inference rather than parameter growth. We evaluate DLE in multi-region closed-loop CARLA benchmarks. Under a fixed parameter budget, DLE consistently improves cross-regional adaptability and outperforms baselines in safety and comfort metrics. These results indicate that memory-based region-aware enhancement offers a practical paradigm for scaling autonomous driving planners under deployment constraints. 

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Deng N, Zhou W, He Y, et al. Dynamically local-enhancement planner for large-scale autonomous driving. Communications in Transportation Research, 2026, https://doi.org/10.26599/COMMTR.2026.9640020

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Received: 29 October 2025
Revised: 25 January 2026
Accepted: 20 March 2026
Available online: 20 March 2026

© The Author(s) 2026.

This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).