DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF AN INTELLIGENT TRAFFIC CONTROL SYSTEM

ABSTRACT: Due to the ever-increasing traffic demand, modern societies with well-planned road management systems, and sufficient infrastructures for transportation still face the problem of traffic congestion. This results in loss of travel time, and huge societal and economic costs. Traffic congestion in highway networks is one of the main issues to be addressed by today’s traffic management schemes. Automation combined with the increasing market penetration of on-line communication, navigation, and advanced driver assistance systems will ultimately result in intelligent vehicle highway systems (IVHS) that distribute intelligence between roadside infrastructure and vehicles and that — in particular on the longer term — are one of the most promising solutions to the traffic congestion problem. In this paper, we present an intelligent traffic control system which is capable of efficiently managing traffic to ensure steady flow and prevent congestion. The system is designed using Java programming language for front-end development and MySQL database for data storage.