Design And Construction Of An Intelligent Traffic Control System.

ABSTRACT

One of the major problems encountered in rural and urban communities is that of

traffic congestion and accidents at blind spots on the road. Several traffic control systems

has been designed but in most cases it is targeted towards road intersections, T-junctions,

and round-abouts, whereas, congestions and accidents on road blind spots is on the rise.

This project, Intelligent Traffic Control System is aimed at controlling the traffic at such

points. The system function is based on three variables; Distance, Number of vehicles and Time.

This system shows when there is heavy traffic, low traffic or no traffic. It is a rule-based

system which gives passage to the vehicles at both end of the road bend based on the rule

it follows. IR sensors, LEDs, ATMEL microcontroller, etc. are some of the components

used to design the system and, is programmed with arduino.

The system is an efficient and highly economic solution to traffic problems on road blind

spots in Nigeria. The use of real time data obtained through Infrared sensor technique that

serves as input to traffic light will be an innovative way of controlling traffic volume on blind spots in developing countries.