An Approach for Optimizing the Average Waiting Time for Vehicles at the Traffic Intersection

With an increase in the number of vehicles, traffic management with the traditional traffic light system has become a big challenge. The primary problem with the existing system is that people have to wait at the signals for a fixed amount of time, even if other lanes at the intersection have less or no vehicles. Therefore, the solution proposed in this paper monitors the traffic density on all the lanes of the intersection by image and video processing. Furthermore, according to the traffic, dynamic time is allotted to the signals. This helps in reducing the waiting time of the vehicles. The proposed method is easy and efficient in deciding the time division for the traffic lights which proves to be a useful tool for traffic management.