A Model for Traffic Control in Urban Environments

Wireless technologies can help solve traffic congestions in urban environments, where road infrastructures develop slower than the sometimes exponential growth in the number of cars in traffic. We present a model for traffic control and congestion avoidance developed over a vehicular ad-hoc network created between the cars in traffic and the road infrastructure. We propose a solution for monitoring traffic using not only sensors within the road infrastructure, but also the cars themselves acting as data collectors. The traffic control decision, provided by the road infrastructure, is scalable, load-balanced, and based on correction decisions for the route adjustment based on local areas. We present evaluation results that show the capabilities of the proposed congestion avoidance model.