Concept and Design of an Intelligent Strategy to Mitigate Traffic Congestion at Intersection

Zulkifli Lubis, Abdullah Zawawi Talib

2018

Abstract

Traffic congestion on public roads is one of the leading causes of lost productivity and decrease in the standard of living in urban setting. The continuous increase in the congestion level, especially at rush hour, is a critical problem and is becoming a major concern to transportation specialists and decision makers. Traffic congestion causes excessive delays, reduced safety and increase in environmental pollution. An intersection is the area where one street or road crosses another. Almost all modes of travel i.e. pedestrian, bicycle, motor vehicle, and transit involve dealing with the intersection area for a given time period, which in turn makes it as a focus of activity, conflicting movements area and a traffic control centre, and as a consequence reducing its capacity. Traffic control at the intersection is an old and ever growing problem in cities all over the world. In many cities, intersections represent bottlenecks in the traffic flow. Evaluating and managing intersections are complex, difficult, costly, and time consuming. The existing methods for traffic management, surveillance and control, are not adequately efficient in terms of performance, cost, maintenance, and support. In this paper, we propose a framework of an intelligent approach for the Dynamic Intersection Traffic Control (DITC) system. We also present some intersection designs that would benefit from the proposed DITC. The proposed strategy reduces conflicts through geometric design and an intelligent traffic control systems. The proposed DITC system has no waiting time and has a specific configuration.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Lubis Z. and Talib A. (2018). Concept and Design of an Intelligent Strategy to Mitigate Traffic Congestion at Intersection. In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference of Computer, Environment, Agriculture, Social Science, Health Science, Engineering and Technology - Volume 1: ICEST, ISBN 978-989-758-496-1, pages 518-522. DOI: 10.5220/0010045805180522

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icest18,
author={Zulkifli Lubis and Abdullah Zawawi Talib},
title={Concept and Design of an Intelligent Strategy to Mitigate Traffic Congestion at Intersection},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference of Computer, Environment, Agriculture, Social Science, Health Science, Engineering and Technology - Volume 1: ICEST,},
year={2018},
pages={518-522},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0010045805180522},
isbn={978-989-758-496-1},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference of Computer, Environment, Agriculture, Social Science, Health Science, Engineering and Technology - Volume 1: ICEST,
TI - Concept and Design of an Intelligent Strategy to Mitigate Traffic Congestion at Intersection
SN - 978-989-758-496-1
AU - Lubis Z.
AU - Talib A.
PY - 2018
SP - 518
EP - 522
DO - 10.5220/0010045805180522