Studies on the TMS Using IR Sensors for Avoiding Congestion in Traffic on Indian City Roads

In the current research article, a comprehensive presentation of the developed transport monitoring system was explained. The present monitoring system was developed and implemented with the help of count sensors, microcontroller and other units necessary to advise the drivers whoever using the busy roads. The current system works by processing the data that was being collected from the sensors that were placed in the ground of the roads. The main goal of developing this traffic monitoring system was to collect the movement of vehicles that were moving on a selected busy roads over a period of time and suggest the drivers to take other available routes in the city such that to reduce the congestion on the city roads. Based on the number of vehicles that were being travelling towards the road by crossing the sensor units were calculated and the suggestion was given to drivers whoever using such roads in terms of heavy traffic, moderate traffic and light traffic to the drivers. The data from the sensors will be collected by a system that was placed at the side of the road and the monitoring system will process the data and three available appropriate decisions will be given to the traffic signal that were placed at the various signal points before to the actual busiest signal point. Based on the traffic signal lights of the monitoring system, the drivers can take the decision of diverting the vehicle to other possible routes such that the congestion in heavy traffic roads can be avoided such that the time travelling time of the passengers can be reduced. The present system was deployed on the selected roads and collected the results at various timeslots and the signals were being tested with various set of results that were evolved with various time slots. The results were tabulated in the results section and the future scope of the traffic monitoring system was also discussed in the conclusion section.