Smart Urban Traffic Management System
Smart Urban Traffic Management System
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I. Introduction
Fig.1. Number of cars sold worldwide from 1990 to 2015
Smart City [1] is a term which is associated with various (Source:
innovative technologies in order to make a city ―smarter‖ to http://www.statista.com/statistics/200002/international-car-
improve the quality of life of people. Among the different sales-since-1990/
dimensions that make a city smart, one of the very important on 13 Jan, 2015)
one is transportation. Smart Transportation deals with creation
and implementation of an intelligent traffic management As seen from Fig.1. the number of cars being sold continues to
system that deals with congestion detection and avoidance, increase around the world. This gradual increase in the
emergency management, car safety and accident prevention number of cars sold has already put a huge strain in the
etc. It also tries to make transportation greener by helping to infrastructure of current roads. Moreover, the increase in total
reduce gas emissions, fuel or energy consumption in vehicles. road area is much slower compared to the number of cars
Transport sector contributes to 27% of energy related to CO2 being purchased and registered. The problem of traffic
emissions and is the fastest growing sector in terms of congestion and long waiting queues are quite common along
greenhouse emissions in developing countries [2]. with the significant rise in the number of mishaps and traffic
accidents.
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the traffic density, volume and informing drivers about which the sustainability and ethics related to our model and its
route is best at any given time of the day. Moreover, economic value.
government in different countries like India are planning smart
cities and smart transportation system is one of the most II. LITERATURE STUDY
important part of any smart city [3].
A lot of researches have come up with the solutions to
Fig. 2. Explains the economic impact due to Congestion which implement Smart Road Traffic Management system and as a
is more than trillions of dollars for Europe and US combined result several approaches have been developed.
in time period of 2013-2030.
Zeng, et Al. [4] discussed the design, framework and
functional modules of an intelligent transport management
system in important traffic hubs inside of a city or for external
transport by means of integration of multiple technologies in
order to automate decision making and increase the utilization,
safety and comfort level. On the other hand, Al-Sakran [5]
proposes a low cost highly scalable and compatible intelligent
traffic administration system framework that is based on
internet of things. The framework uses RFID, wireless sensors
technology, cloud computing, GPS and other advanced
technologies to implement the intelligent traffic management
system. To reduce traffic congestion, road accidents and
increase traffic productivity and efficiency, Bitam, et Al. [6]
explains a cloud computing model that can be added to
intelligent transportation system to improve traffic
management.
This paper consists of the following sections: ―Literature From the big picture view-point, Djahel, et Al. [9] in their
Study‖ which describes the related studies, ―Problem publication presents an up-to-date review of the different
Statement‖ section illustrates the problem we address in this technologies used in the different phases involved in a Traffic
paper. ―Methodology‖ section portrays the methods and Management System and discuss the potential use of smart
approach followed to develop the proposed model, cars and social media to enable fast and more accurate traffic
―Framework and Design‖ section explains the functional block congestion detection and mitigation. The security threats that
diagram of the proposed model. ―Result and Analysis‖ section can jeopardize a traffic management operation are also
contains our proposed Smart Road Management System discussed here. Some open challenges are discussed and their
Model and its advantages. The ―Discussion‖ section contains
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own vision is also stated to develop robust Traffic V. Framework and Design
Management System for future smart cities.
The framework and design of our proposed system is as
III. Problem Statement follows:
The fact which encouraged us to conduct this research is that The RFID readers acquire the data and send it to the Cloud
in many cities of the world, signal allocation is still based on [11]. In the place of Crossing Server, single board computer is
timer. The timer approach has a drawback that even when used which is also connected to the cloud. Instead of data-base
there is less traffic on a road, green signal is still allocated to of each road stored in the corresponding Crossing Server, in
the road till its timer value falls to 0 while traffic on another this work Cloud Database [12] is used. Each light of a traffic
road which is more, faces red signal at that time which causes signal is connected to an output port of the corresponding
congestion and time loss to commutators. Most of the present single board computer and no micro-controller needs to be
systems are not automated and are prone to human errors. The used.
main objective of this paper is to create a better road network
system within the city for smoother transition of traffic to As proposed the model has various components in conjugation
increase the overall productivity of a city. with internet of things. The model has a core system which
constitutes of various parts. Below is the figure which shows
IV. Methodology the component involved in this model.
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[17] Each CR and PR are assigned to a definite road. In this a. Traffic Density of each road with exit CRs is checked
diagram, the following are the associations of CRs and PRs and arranged in descending order.
with the roads: b. Green signal is allocated to the road which is first in
a) road A: 3, 4, 13 the order till its Traffic Density decreases by a certain value or
b) road B: 1, 2, 9, 10 reaches 0 whichever is earlier (This certain value is the
c) road C: 5, 6, 11, 12 number of vehicles from the road that are allowed to pass
d) road D: 7, 8, 14, 15, 16 through the crossing at a single signalling cycle).
e) road E: 17, 18 c. Repeat step no. b for the remaining roads placed in
f) road F: 21, 22 the order.
g) road G: 19, 20 d. Repeat step a.
h) road H: 23, 24
2. Detection of a Vehicle Violating Signal
In the Cloud, for each road, there is a specific database.
[18] When the signal of a road with entry CR at the crossing
[17] Whenever a vehicle enters a road, the entry type CR point is Red, if it (entry CR) detects any vehicle at that time,
sends its ID to the road database and the Traffic Density of the its ID is sent to the Vehicle Violation Database contained in
road is increased by 1. Whenever a vehicle exits a road, the the Cloud Database.
exit type CR sends its ID to the road database. In the road
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Many things have been considered to analyse the viability of A. Sustainability and Ethics
this model, for example we have integrated timer values for
the counters. If a car stays for too long between entry and exit The model which we are implementing provides an optimized
CR and don‘t enter any parking PR, administrators of the traffic system which in the end delivers a transportation
system will be alerted by the core system. system producing lesser CO2 emissions. The road transport
vehicles will have better infrastructure to use and in the end it
B. Analysis will result in lesser driven kilometres [20]. The sustainability
aspect of this model is one of the key features associated to it
Our model provides an advantage over the model in the paper as this System also helps in reduction of time consumed for
‗Intelligent Transport Management System for Urban Traffic travel. Traffic management system proposed in our model
Hubs Based on an Integration of Multiple technologies‘ [4] in system enable us in planning of future road infrastructure and
the sense that we have proposed a model which is versatile helps us to create a sustainable ecosystem.
and can be implemented in any city and country around the
world. Also, it has an automatic traffic management system The data gathering and monitoring system will be designed in
which requires no monitoring but the traffic condition can be such a way that it will not have any conflict of interests with
tracked by anyone, commutator or authority. While Zeng et al. an individual i.e. data gathering RFID will not contain any
[4] in their paper has proposed a system which is based only information about an individual, it will just contain
on traffic hubs inside a city. It also uses a number of information in regards to the identity of the vehicle not the
technologies which will increase cost to a great extent while owner. Authorities can correlate this information with their
our model only uses RFID Readers and Tags on vehicles and own system in order to attach an owner's identity to a vehicle.
Single Board Computers at each crossing point of roads which The data collection servers will be located in a secure location
are not an expensive infrastructure. Also Cloud Computing is in order to maintain data integrity.
cost-effective than any existing connected computing
technology because Cloud can be leased or hired from Cloud B. Economic Value
Service Providers and no new infrastructure for this purpose is
even required. A critical part of developing a smart city is Traffic
management. Traffic management and road planning are very
Al-Sakran [5] in the paper ‗Intelligent Traffic Information much required by the city planners to keep the city free from
System Based on Integration of Internet of Things and Agent traffic congestion and also to make the road infrastructure
Technology‘ has proposed an intelligent system for traffic future proof to accommodate increasing number of vehicles.
monitoring while our proposed system is not only for traffic
monitoring but it is mainly for traffic controlling of the whole The relevant model discussed above can play a vital role in
city. traffic management. The system can be deployed at various
road crossings of the smart city with interconnected central
Mbodila, et Al [8]. In their publication ‗Implementation of server system. The conceived system will yield greater return
novel vehicles' traffic monitoring using wireless sensor in the long run both in terms of ROI (Return on Investment)
network in South Africa‘ have described about the and TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) because of the following
implementation of a model for vehicle traffic monitoring reasons:
between Johannesburg and Pretoria in South Africa. This
system can find out appropriate road for motorists. However, 1. Number of deployed persons required to manage traffic is
in our model we are not doing any research about appropriate much less. As the system is fully automated, only a handful of
road for motorists because Google Maps [19] already exist people can manage the entire traffic of the city.
which in navigation mode can do the same function for a 2. Less waiting time and reduction in traffic congestion will
motorist and we have decided not to research something that help people to save fuel and will reduce pollution.
already exists. 3. There is no room for human errors, so the number of road
accidents will be reduced considerably.
The framework explained here is in preparatory stage. There
are numerous degree for changes. The framework must be VIII. Conclusion
adjusted to meet the logistical necessities which contrast from
street to street and city to city. A testing environment can be The paper gives a real time traffic monitoring and
developed under ideal conditions for testing and development management model to solve the problem of traffic congestion
of the model as well as addition of a manual override. in urban areas. The proposed model uses technologies like
IOT, RFID, cloud computing and other advanced technologies
to collect and analyse real time traffic data.
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