Intelligent Transport System: An Important Aspect of Emergency Management in Smart Cities

An intelligent transport system (ITS) is a vital part of smart cities in order to manage smooth traffic on highways. An active framework is required to manage a smooth traffic on the roads. An excessive growth in urban population is a big challenge for smart cities. Unorganized traffic shows current reality of cities. The current road infrastructure cannot cope with the increased number of vehicles on the roads. This problem can be tackled through the use of Information and the communication technologies (ICT). ITS will reduce delays, traffic congestions, energy consumption and the pollution emission caused by the long delays on roads. This paper presents a framework for intelligent traffic system that will reduce the waiting time for vehicles on the signal. The performance and the scalability of the proposed framework was evaluated through experiments. The results exhibit a significant amount of reduction in waiting time for vehicles on the signal. This will help in controlling the traffic problems efficiently and eventually reducing the number of casualties caused by road accidents.