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Traffic management especially in big cities is a salient problem worldwide. Developed countries had already given priority to solving it by applying modern traffic control and management approaches. Nevertheless, it is still a daunting challenge especially in third world countries. This problem is deemed a main contributor to wasting time, energy, money and other problems. This preliminary investigation presents a solution for managing vehicles at intersections controlled by light signals. Our solution tries to optimize the timing of each light signal in given that the volume of accumulated vehicles is estimated using environmental sensors such as a surveillance camera. The solution also takes care of the exceptions such as having an emergency or a rescue vehicle passing by. The system architecture is formalized using UML diagrams that show its main components and the interactions among them. Finally it is validated through simulation by taking various scenarios. The simulation results illustrate the efficiency of the proposed architecture.
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Mateen, A., Khalid, A., Arif, F. (2015). A Sensor-Based Light Signal Controller. In: Nguyen, N., Trawiński, B., Kosala, R. (eds) Intelligent Information and Database Systems. ACIIDS 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9011. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-15702-3_24
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