Intelligent traffic light flow control system using wireless sensors networks

Journal of Information Science and Engineering

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 753-768

  Yousef, Khalil M ^a   Al Karaki, Jamal N ^b   Shatnawi, Ali M ^a  

^a JORDAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Jordan)

^b HASHEMITE UNIVERSITY   (Jordan)

Author keywords

Dynamic traffic adaptation; Intelligent traffic controller; Traffic congestion; Traffic flow control; Wireless sensor networks

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE TRAFFIC CONTROL; AVERAGE QUEUE LENGTHS; AVERAGE WAITING-TIME; CONTROL TRAFFIC; DECISION MAKERS; DYNAMIC CHANGES; DYNAMIC TRAFFIC; EXISTING METHOD; INTELLIGENT TRAFFIC CONTROLLER; REAL MEASUREMENTS; SIMULATION RESULT; TRAFFIC CONDITIONS; TRAFFIC CONTROLLERS; TRAFFIC ESTIMATION; TRAFFIC FLOW; TRAFFIC FLOW CONTROL; TRAFFIC INFRASTRUCTURE; TRAFFIC LIGHT; TRAFFIC LIGHT CONTROLLER; TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT; TRAFFIC SYSTEMS; URBAN AREAS; VEHICULAR TRAFFIC; WIRELESS SENSORS NETWORKS;

ADAPTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS; ALGORITHMS; CONTROLLERS; DECISION MAKING; EQUIPMENT TESTING; FLOW CONTROL; HIGHWAY TRAFFIC CONTROL; MOTOR TRANSPORTATION; SENSOR NETWORKS; TRAFFIC SIGNALS; TRAFFIC SURVEYS; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

TRAFFIC CONGESTION;

EID: 77953666372     PISSN: 10162364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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