MEKELLE UNIVERSITY MEKELLE INSTITUTE OF

TECHNOLOGY
DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF
INTELLIGENT DYNAMIC TRAFFIC LIGHT
CONTROLLER

By:
Hiluf Tesfay
Kidane Negash
Tsegay G/Mariam
Simon Kiros

Advisor:
Maarig Aregawi
Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ........................................................................................................................................ 3
PROBLEM STATEMENT.............................................................................................................................. 3
RESEARCH QUESTION ............................................................................................................................... 3
HYPOTHESIS .............................................................................................................................................. 3
LITERATURE REVIEW ............................................................................................................................. 4
OBJECTIVE ................................................................................................................................................. 4
METHODLOGY ............................................................................................................................................... 5
TIMELINE BREAKDOWN OF THE PROJECT ........................................................................................ 6
REFERENCES ............................................................................................................................................. 7
INTRODUCTION
Traffic is the density of very complex movement in the available road of pedestrians and
vehicles. Now a day, the world has many towns that involves different complex
movements either from town to town or complex movements of vehicles and the
pedestrians with in the town. The evolution of traffic light controllers has become the most
Popular and prevalent to manage the traffic roads.
Traffic light controller is a system that provides suitable conditions to access a road for
pedestrians and vehicles at the junction of the road .Normally the function of traffic light
requires more safe and smooth control as possible that pedestrians are protected when
they cross the roads. Actually we can classify the traffic light controllers as static and dynamic.

PROBLEM STATEMENT
The main issue that we are going to solve here is the presence of accidents on the
junction roads. Beside this there are issues like cost consumption, time consumption and
unreliability of the controllers. There are many roads having many junctions in different
cities with in the world and a lot of accidents occurs due to uncontrolled accessibility of the junctions of
the roads. Even though there are traffic polices, it is difficult to manage
the way of the road in satisfactory manner. Static traffic line controller is configured to turn on the light
after a certain period of time. Since the number of cars can vary from time to time this system will not be
performs efficiently.

RESEARCH QUESTION
How can we make the vehicle and pedestrians to cross the junction having minimized
accident, what methods do we use to control the traffic light and how we can detect the
presence of vehicles and pedestrians?

HYPOTHESIS
The problems that existed in the traffic road are solved using the implementation of
intelligent and dynamic traffic light controller. This system can developed by capturing
continuous images and shape of the vehicles and pedestrians from the roads at certain
distance before the junction with camera , and the captured image and shapes is filled to
the general purpose computer and the computer interpret using python programming and
if any vehicle or pedestrian passes through this road the controller receives command from
the general purpose computer and the appropriate delay will be generated which vehicle
or pedestrians wait and passes through the junction road and indicated by red and green
colored traffic lights displays.
LITERATURE REVIEW
Different scientists tried to solve problems of traffic roads, among them are the following
methods.
Dynamic traffic light controller using machine vision and optimization algorithms which
presents a fuzzy traffic controller that in autonomous, centralized and optional way
manages traffic flow in a group of common points [1]. This system accepts information from
network of cameras and through machine vision version algorithms can notice the
number of vehicles in each of the roads [1]. By using this information fuzzy system choose
the sequence of stages that optimize traffic flow totally to estimate the efficiency of the
controller, a model was developed where it was possible to integrate through artificially
created videos to adjacent common points [1].however the capital cost of the controller is
expensive to plan it.

Traffic monitoring using several camera, homographs and multi-hypothesis tracking that
uses a smart system for tracking objects based on networks of autonomous chasing
units that capture and process images from one or more pre-calibrated visual sensors and controls
the movement of vehicles and any other object around the junction [2]. And this system only
monitors the condition of the road and cannot control the traffic of the road in a good way, and it
is too costive and difficult to implement it.

PLC based intelligent traffic control system in which the plc checks the conditions of sensors,
The system resolution depends on the output supplied by the sensors, Then PLC checks
the priority and then feeds output signal to the traffic lights poles for ON or OF the red,
yellow or green lights and ON time is depend on the particular priorities[3].However this
method is not that much efficient and there may occur the existence of accidents and frustration
in hot condition and it is expensive in cost.

OBJECTIVE
The objective of this project is to design the dynamic and intelligent traffic light
controller. According to this project the traffic light controller is to be function of the vehicles
and pedestrians passing through the road according there priority.
 METHODLOGY
In this project we are going to design and implement the dynamic and intelligent traffic
light controller.
The materials that we are going to use here are camera, Arduino (controller), general purpose
computer, traffic light display and seven segment display.

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TIMELINE BREAKDOWN OF THE PROJECT

No_ TASK TO BE DONE DATE IN G.C

Submission 1st version March 22/03/2017
1
proposal 11:30 PM
Presentation of the
2 March 29-31/03/2017
proposal
Submission of version-2 April 14/04/2017 11:30
3
proposal PM
Project progress report May 17/05/2017 11:30
4
submission PM
Final project report June 07/06/2017 11:30
5
submission PM
6 Project presentation June 06-10,2017
 REFERENCES
[1]F.Espinosa
GAV-UniversidadMilitar Nueva Granada.,Bogota.,com, pp .1-6.

[2]. A. Koutsia et al.,

CAMERAS,HOMOGRAPHIES AND MULTI-
Telematics Institute,57001 Thessaloniki,Greec e MARAC Electronics.,piraeus.Gree ,pp.1-4.
[3]. M.A. Khattak Department of Computer
Science and Information Technology Sarhad University of Science and Information
Technology(SUIT).,Peshawar.,pak,pp.69-73.