An Efficient Approach for Vehicle Traffic Monitoring by Collaborating Vehicular Mobility Module and Network Simulator 3

Traffic monitoring is referred to as the method of studying and analyzing the incoming and outgoing traffic on a computer network through a specialized software tool. Traffic density in India is one of the major issues faced in today’s world. Thus, Smart traffic monitoring system is needed in India to reduce traffic congestion. This paper discusses the design of a realistic vehicular mobility simulation system in Simulation of Urban MObility (SUMO) with the help of traffic survey of Open Street Map (OSM) which provides reliable and meaningful real time statistics. The realistic map is generated in the high traffic density in Coimbatore. Vehicular-Adhoc NETwork(VANET) follows the principle of Mobile Adhoc NETwork (MANET) which is used in the spontaneous creation of a wireless network of mobile nodes. VANET Simulation using NS3 and SUMO establishes communication between the vehicle to vehicle. The halting time of the emergency vehicle is reduced to provide them with high priority than any other vehicles using Traffic Control Interface (TraCI). The proposed model uses a hybrid approach of placing the detectors in each lane in a four cross junction to provide a better and efficient solution to the problem hence overcoming the problems faced by the existing methods.