Abstract
Congestion is a serious issue due to vechicular traffic. One of the known causes of traffic congestion is the amount of time spend waiting for the red light to change to green. The changing of traffic light is hard-coded and it is not reliant on traffic volume. There is therefore need to simulate and optimize traffic control to better accommodate density based traffic rather than time based. This system attempts to lessen possibilities of traffic jams brought about by traffic lights to a reasonable degree. This project, a density based traffic control system is been implemented to solve this problem. The system entails programming an Arduino using Arduino integrated development environment (IDE) to enable traffic lights give the right of access to the road by selecting the lane with the high number of cars. The traffic lights are modified to chip away at an auspicious premise until there is a signal identified by the infrared sensors. The sensor identifies an object (i.e. a vehicle, a motorcycle etc) and signals the Arduino to control the traffic lights for its individual path. Once there is no sign identified by any of the four sensors the traffic lights keep on dealing with an auspicious premise. The mean response time of the sensor was found to be 0.39 seconds. Further research is recommended to produce the device on a large scale to be deployed to all roads in the country.
Highlights
One of such over-stretched infrastructure is the road, a circumstance which has resulted to increase in traffic
Known as traffic jam, traffic congestions may result from roads being blocked, bad roads, accidents on the road, lack of proper traffic light system to control vehicles, inappropriate driving by road users etc
The OUT leg is connected to one of the digital input and output pins corresponding to the traffic light it is to control
Summary
One of such over-stretched infrastructure is the road, a circumstance which has resulted to increase in traffic. A traffic light is a signalling device which controls a traffic flow at road intersections It consists of three basic lights which include red, yellow and green. Known as traffic jam, traffic congestions may result from roads being blocked, bad roads, accidents on the road, lack of proper traffic light system to control vehicles, inappropriate driving by road users etc. This would make the journey longer due to the slow movement of the traffic and increased queuing of vehicles [3]. Railroads were invented serving as a temporary solution to the developing issue of street traffic control This creates congestion at terminals inside urban communities
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