A Case Study of an Intelligent Traffic Control System in Smart Cities

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Current traffic light systems use a fixed time delay for different traffic directions and do follow a particular cycle whileswitching from one signal to another. This creates unwanted congestion during peak hours, loss of man-hours and eventually declinein productivity. In addition to this, the current traffic light systems encourage extortion by corrupt traffic officials as commuters oftenviolate traffic rules because of the insufficient time allocated to their lanes or may want to avoid a long waiting period for their lanes tocome up. This research is aimed at tackling the afore-mentioned problems by adopting a density based traffic control approach usingJakpa Junction, one of the busiest junctions in Delta State, Nigeria as a case study. The developed system uses a microcontroller ofPIC89C51 microcontroller duly interfaced with sensors. The signal timing changes automatically based on the traffic density at thejunction, thereby, avoiding unnecessary waiting time at the junction. The sensors used in this project were infrared (IR) sensors andphotodiodes which were placed in a Line of Sight configuration across the loads to detect the density of the traffic signal. The densityof the vehicles is measured in three zones i.e., low, medium and high based on which timings were allotted accordingly. The developedsystem has proven to be smart and intelligent and capable of curbing incidences of traffic malpractices and inefficiencies that have beenthe bane of current traffic congestion control systems in emerging cities of the third world.

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