Road Traffic Lights

Real-Time Recognition of Signaling Lights in Road Traffic

A method for recognizing signal lights in traeic scenes in real time has been developed. It consists of a set of different feature extraction operations acting as sequential filters. In order to be classified as part of the image of an active signaling light, a set of pixels must pass each one of these filters. This multifilter approach is model-based, and it comprises much of the available kno...

Employing Traffic Lights as Road Side Units for Road Safety Information Broadcast

There is great concern over growing road accidents and associated fatalities. In order to reduce accidents, improve congestion and offer smooth flow of traffic, several measures, such as providing intelligence to transport, providing communication infrastructure along the road, and vehicular communication, are being undertaken. Traffic safety information broadcast from traffic lights using Visi...

Self-organizing Traffic Lights

Steering traffic in cities is a very complex task, since improving efficiency involves the coordination of many actors. Traditional approaches attempt to optimize traffic lights for a particular density and configuration of traffic. The disadvantage of this lies in the fact that traffic densities and configurations change constantly. Traffic seems to be an adaptation problem rather than an opti...

Agent controlled traffic lights

Due to several reasons, changing conditions in the environment do not always lead to changes in the traffic control units. The hypothesis of this research is that it may be useful to make use of self evaluating and self organising intelligent (urban) traffic control systems. In this research we focus on the applicability of autonomous intelligent agents within urban traffic control (i.e. traffi...

Organic Control of Traffic Lights