Railroad traffic light sensors to anticipate jams at junctions based on ATMega8

Abstract

Traffic congestion is a problem that has long occurred in Indonesia, especially in big cities. Traffic congestion that occurs can cause various losses, one of which is time loss because it can only run at a very low speed. Then it will create a waste of energy, because going at low speed will require more fuel. Congestion is also able to increase the saturation of other road users, not only that traffic jams also have a bad impact on nature which causes air pollution. And there are many more impacts of traffic jams that can make traveling very uncomfortable. One of the locations of traffic jams often occurs on roads located around railroad crossings. Therefore, In this study, it is proposed to make a traffic light sensor adjacent to the train track to anticipate long traffic jams based on atmega8 and infrared sensors, with the stages of collecting data, recording transportation activities at the location of the jam, then designing a sensor device. The system built is to read the volume of vehicles on the road and prioritize the road with the highest volume of vehicles to get the green traffic light condition. Based on the results of the manufacture of infrared sensors and atmega8 can be tested to reduce the level of congestion at crossroads adjacent to the railroad.