A Collaborative Road Traffic Regulation Approach Using a Wireless Sensor Network

A Collaborative Road Traffic Regulation Approach Using a Wireless Sensor Network

Nouha Rida, Abderrahim Hasbi
DOI: 10.4018/IJSSMET.290330
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In this paper, we detail and evaluate a coordinated approach to determining the sequence and duration of green lights at several intersections as part of the Intelligent Transportation System. We present the architecture of a wireless network used to track variations in adjacent intersections. Our algorithm exploits the collected data to determine the sequence of the green lights based on three objectives: (i) reduce the length of queues in the intersection, (ii) prioritize sending vehicle flows to intersections with lower traffic density than the most congested, (iii) synchronize traffic signals between adjacent intersections to create green waves. Traffic simulations have been simulated by the SUMO traffic simulator, they show that our solution manages to react to traffic change and reduce waiting time compared to isolated control strategies.
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As mentioned in the previous section, there are two main types of traffic control management. There is a fixed time controller, with a predetermined and fixed cycle, and there is also an adaptive controller that modifies the cycle sequence and the duration of the phases as a function of the numbers of the vehicles present on each lane.

The authors in (Fayez et al., 2020) propose a tracking system for hidden objects for real-time monitoring. This hybrid system is composed of two techniques: a fast technique, circulating structure kernels with color names and an efficient real-time object tracking (ROT) technique aware of occultation.

In (Yousef et al., 2010), the authors propose an adaptive controller based on the theory of the queue and the number of vehicles in each direction as a decision criterion. However, the controller treated in (Helbing et al., 2005) is based on a dynamic fluid model. The system proposed in (Odeh, 2013) detects the level of congestion and abnormal situations in two main highways and for four intersections, and makes a real-time decision that determines the green-light interval for each traffic light at each intersection based on the genetic algorithm.

A self-organization of traffic lights based on historical traffic status data is presented in (Burguillo-Rial et al., 2012; Yousef et al., 2019). The controller in (Zhu et al., 2016) is cooperative between a network of intersections and semi adaptive. Hence, the decision was made once per cycle based on the number of vehicles in the intersections and on the roads connecting the intersection with its neighbors. All phases in the system in (Rithesh et al., 2018) have a constant duration of 30s, and the choice of the next phase is done according to a decision tree. In (Collotta et al., 2015; Salman et al., 2018; Zou et al., 2009), the authors propose adaptive controllers based on fuzzy logic.

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