Ingénierie des Systèmes d’Information

Vol. 26, No. 4, August, 2021, pp. 387-392

Optimization of Vehicle Flow Times in a Single Crossing System Through the Development
of a Multi-Agent Platform
nez Cruz Miguel Angel1,2*, Dorantes Benavidez Humberto2, Trejo Martí
Martí nez Alfredo2
1
Escuela Superior de Ingenierí
a Mecánica y Eléctrica Unidad Zacatenco, Av. Luis Enrique Erro S/N, Unidad Profesional
Adolfo López Mateos, Gustavo A. Madero, Zacatenco, Ciudad de México 07738, Mexico
2
TecNM Campus TESOEM, Paraje de, Isidro S/N, Tecamachalco, Los Reyes Acaquilpan 56400, Mexico

Corresponding Author Email: [email protected]

https://doi.org/10.18280/isi.260406 ABSTRACT

Received: 17 June 2021 We live in a globalized and competitive world where cities face serious mobility problems
Accepted: 9 August 2021 so it is important to intelligently control vehicular traffic. This article proposes the optimal
cycle time that the interface (Traffic Light) must be programmed at the time of having a
Keywords: vehicular load on both axes (x-y) in a system of a single vehicular crossing. Based on the
mobility issues, intelligent traffic control, Monte Carlo method as a numerical technique to calculate probabilities on the average times
NetLogo, multi-agent systems, monte Carlo and speeds for each combination performed in the simulator. We used a computer tool based
method on a programmable environment oriented to models of multi-agent systems, called NetLogo
as part of the development of the research, finally describing the overall optimal behavior
of the system represented graphically and mathematically.

1. INTRODUCTION based on fuzzy logic Type-2 and GA, the results of the
simulation indicate that this method can reduce the length of
Today, one of the problems of any society has to do with the the tail and the vehicular delay at the intersection [2].
amount of time it takes for individuals to move from one Takashi mentions in his work, the control of vehicular
destination to another no longer as a local problem, but as a traffic through a sequence of traffic lights placed with a
global one. Some studies show that cities with high population disorderly interval, which exposes to study the dynamic
density tend to have problems with vehicular flow; for behavior of vehicular traffic, the dynamics of traffic controlled
example, in Mexico City, according to the TomTom index, by traffic lights, is described in nonlinear stochastic terms of
motorists spend on average 59 minutes of time stranded in vehicles that move with their inherent speeds through a
traffic (TomTom International BV, 2018). This results in 227 sequence of lights positioned with inhomogeneous intervals,
lost hours a year. In this sense, the company TomTom, of and have studied the dynamic behaviors of vehicles varying
Dutch origin, places a classification of the most congested the cycle and the setback of time, traffic is controllable, speed
cities around the world, the percentage of congestion in which and randomness, it is shown that agents or automata are
Mexico City (Mexico) stands out 66%, Bangkok (Thailand) controlled by traffic lights at specific values of cycle time [3].
61%, etc. [1]. Some related research to improve vehicular traffic, propose
This article proposes in an innovative way the optimal way the sharing of vehicles [4]. However, due to various social
to program the traffic light to the change of lights, considering circumstances in practice it becomes difficult to implement, so
the different vehicular loads that could be presented in both that our research is oriented to the optimization of speeds in
axes or routes of the intersection in a real scenario, for this we the flow of vehicles using wilinsky's model, programming
used a computer tool based on a programmable environment multiple simulations in the Netlogo program [5].
oriented to models of multiagent systems, called NetLogo, the In its work entitled "Signal control optimization for
results analyzed after the simulation seem to be encouraging. utomated vehicles at isolated signalized intersections" they use
To this end, it is proposed to respond to the global problem of traffic signals at intersections as an integral component of the
vehicular traffic by programming a chip, which must contain existing transport system, so that they contribute significantly
all the results of the optimal combinations that make vehicular to the mobility of vehicular traffic, the algorithm assumes that
traffic more efficient by changing the red light and the green vehicle trajectories can be fully optimized, that is, vehicles will
light of the traffic light in a single-junction system. be able to follow the specific routes by a signal controller.
(Control, 2016) proposes with the algorithms to identify an
order of passage of vehicles to the exchange of light at a traffic
2. REVIZADA LITERATURE light, so that the analysis at multiple intersections is not
considered in some investigations [6].
There are different works, in which different proposals have They propose that wireless sensor networks and multiple
been developed for the solution to the problem on vehicular fuzzy logic controllers, pose a dynamic control of traffic lights
traffic, the proposal made by Yunrui Bl On control at a single that are basically combined in a network of wireless sensors
intersection and simulation based on fuzzy logic, which (WSN) designed for real-time traffic with multiple fuzzy logic
proposes a signal control method for the single intersection controllers, working in parallel using wireless sensors

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