Design and Implementation of Density Based Traffic Control System

Abstract

Traffic congestion is a severe problem in many major cities across the world and it has become a nightmare for the people in these cities. Traffic can be controlled in several main junctions by incorporating either automatic traffic light control or traffic police. Conventional traffic light system is based on fixed time concept allotted to each side of the junction which cannot to be varied as per varying traffic density. At some times, priority of traffic light needs to be changed based on number of vehicles moving on road, and emergency vehicles like fire brigades, very important person vehicles and ambulance vehicles etc. We propose to design and develop a density-based traffic signal system. The signal changes automatically on sensing the traffic density at the junction. The prototype model including Infrared sensors and Arduino, which helps to overcome the limitations of traffic congestion over time-based traffic control system.