Simulation of traffic management systems using arduino boards
Gheorghiu Razvan Andrei, Timnea Radu Serban, Stan Valentin Alexandru, Buretea Laurentiu Dorin · 2016
Any adaptive traffic control system applied for an entire network must be flexible, in order to adjust the signalling times for each junction according with real traffic data, according to a macroscopic vision. Also, it must be network synchronized, in order for each signalling time modification to be correlated with the other junctions in the network. The system must also be able to properly respond to special traffic events, meaning that all the vehicles “neglected” at some point must be considered with priority at a later moment, in order to avoid long queue formation, even on secondary roads. A model for traffic management system evaluation is useful both for didactic purpose and for existent systems' evaluation, by monitoring their responses to different scenarios and determining their efficiency. Obviously, for the big cities (and not only) congested traffic, may occur many situations that cannot be anticipated at system installation time. Therefore, the main purpose for a traffic management system evaluation model may be to determine the system's responses in special situations which, however small their probability is, can negatively affect the traffic on a large area of the network and hence the implemented system cannot counter-balance the perturbation incurred in a short time manner.