A Testbed for Intelligent Control of Traffic Lights at Pedestrian Crossings on a Road

Suitable testbeds can facilitate and accelerate the development of intelligent traffic systems. In this paper, we propose a testbed for testers to validate their intelligent traffic light control programs at pedestrian crossings on a road. Our testbed involves 6 elements: the road, pedestrian crossings, vehicles, pedestrians, traffic light control programs, and the simulator. Testers can input multiple parameters to simulate different road conditions. Given the traffic light controls programs, our testbed conducts the simulation and provides visualised performance measures including the waiting time of vehicles and pedestrians. Also, to reflect the the lifetime cost of vehicle brake systems, our testbed measures how many times vehicles stop. We conducted a case study with two traffic light control programs. The results show that the design and implementation of our testbed is feasible and efficient in practical simulations.