An Intelligent Traffic Monitoring System

Traffic is increasing day by day because of the increasing in vehicle usage especially in urban areas. Congestion in traffic also increases with the increase of vehicle numbers. To regulate the flow of vehicles we are presently using traffic light controllers which has three signals . With the help of these signals we can regulate the vehicle's direction. Most of the controllers has some fixed duration for each of the three signals which may leads to the additional congestion in traffic. This congestion we can be avoided by two ways. One is to design an intelligent traffic light controller which alters the duration between each signal. Other is to make the user of the vehicle be aware of the traffic density of the path in which he is travelling. The scope of this paper is to design a system which makes the user to be aware of the traffic with the help of Global Positioning System (GPS) and GSM mobile phones, so that the user can make alternate route if possible or may plan his activity according to the traffic density. The performance of the Intelligent Traffic Light Controller is compared with the Fixed Mode Traffic Light Controller and it is observed that the proposed Intelligent Traffic Light Controller is more efficient than the conventional controller in respect of less waiting time and improvement in the distance travelled by vehicles and efficient operation during emergency mode .