Fuzzy vehicle control system for single intersection

Abstract

Traffic light at the intersection is an important part of the daily life of the urban cities. Traffic light needs to be managed properly so that a large number of vehicles able to cross the intersection. Current traffic light system is not able to allot efficient traffic light cycle length to vehicles. It is because of the traffic system is based on the fixed cycle length. Today traffic is highly fluctuating. Number of vehicles in the traffic varies with respect to time and day. To handle this situation, the paper proposes a vehicle control system using fuzzy logic: Fuzzy Vehicle Control System (FVCS). FVCS allots dynamic cycle length signal duration to vehicles based on the present traffic available at the intersection. Experiments have been performed on the proposed FVCS architecture using MATLAB. Experiments show that a reduction of 28.92% can be achieved in the number of vehicles that are waiting at the intersection to cross it.