Sunday, February 17, 2013

DENSITY BASED TRAFFIC CONTROL SYSTEM











Day by day increasing population increases traffic and vehicles also which causes problems in transportation and management of traffic. Mainly traffic controls at the  crossings required smart traffic signaling system which have high degree of flexibility according to the flow of traffic in auxiliary roads, on the crossing some roads have a high density of traffic required rapid release of traffic to maintain the smooth flow of traffic on busy roads.
In this project we develop a system which sense the traffic density on the particular road and change the red signal duration accordingly. Here we use IR sensors fitted along the road side to detect the presence of vehicles and change the value of resistance to change the frequency of the oscillator built around the timer IC which feed to the counter and change the cycle rate to control the red/green signals according to the traffic density.
In this system IR sensors are used to measure the density of the vehicles which are fixed within a fixed distance.  All the sensors are interfaced with the microcontroller which in turn controls the traffic signal system according to density detected by the sensors.If the traffic density is high on particular side more priority is given for that side.  The sensors continuously keep sensing density on all sides and the green signal is given to the side on priority basis, where the sensors detect high density.  The side with next priority level follows the first priority level.
By using this system traffic can be cleared without irregularities and time delays even though there is no traffic on the other side can be avoided. 





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