SMART TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

Abstract

Traffic congestion is becoming a grave problem in many big cities of the country. Unpredictable failure of traffic signals, poor law enforcement and bad traffic management has led to this grave problem of traffic congestion. The road traffic management strategy determines the objectives, roles, responsibilities and operational principles of Regional Transport Office (RTO). The main aim of this project is to provide a smart way to monitor and control traffic congestion on roads and emergency service vehicles. The appropriate places for placing radio frequency readers are selected so that the radio frequency tags on ambulance and fire-extinguisher truck can be read easily by the reader. This project will improve the current traffic system. To control traffic, some corrective measures are taken that are implemented in our system. In the proposed system, there will be barricades placed before zebra crossing lines so that vehicles will stop behind it systematically and nobody will be able to break the signal and go, thus, reducing number of accidents. This will ensure safety of all the pedestrians and all drivers. In this system, the emergency services like ambulance vehicle and fire-extinguisher truck are also given priority to reach their destination in time, thus reducing delay. The proposed system is designed to accept information about any emergency cases such as the passing of president, or any other VIP persons, ambulances, or fire extinguisher trucks using radio frequency identification technology. For implementation, we are using one Arduino-UNO and one Arduino-MEGA board and RFID technology. The system has the ability to open a complete lane for such emergency cases. As a result, the system will guarantee the fluency of traffic for the main vital streets and paths that require fluent traffic during peak hours of the day and the traffic density.

Existing System

Proposed System

The proposed system contains one Arduino UNO and one Arduino MEGA board connected to each other where all the four RFID readers are connected to UNO board. This RFID reader on roadside detects and scans the RFID tags placed on the emergency service vehicles. This operation is monitored and controlled by the UNO board. The MEGA board is connected to all the eight Servo motors (acting as barricades) and four LED lights (acting as signals). The MEGA board is used for regulating normal traffic operations. The boards are connected to each other so that if emergency vehicles arrive on one road, then the RFID reader will detect and scan the RFID tag and signals of remaining roads will be turned red and the barricades associated to them will be closed too and only left barricade of that road where emergency vehicle has arrived will be opened.

Architecture

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