Traffic Density Monitoring and Controller using RFID

Traffic management is one of the most serious road problems in today’s situation. To manage all the traffic, Traffic signal plays a major role in traffic management. The current traffic signal system or ordinary traffic light signal system is a pre-arranged traffic system. Therefore, these traffic signal systems have been referred to as fixed traffic lights. This pre-arranged traffic is worked on static time i.e. fix time. Therefore, this system can’t change the waiting time to needy vehicle. Thus, the present work has proposed a traffic management system using analyzing the traffic density. The proposed traffic signal management system avoids traffic management problems with the help of Radio-frequency identification (RFID) that usually arise with common traffic management systems. RFID is a tool that provides an effective solution to automatic traffic detection and management. The proposed decided to green or red the traffic signal light based on present vehicle density in a particular direction. If traffic density is low, then the time duration of the green light decreases respectively and if the traffic density is high then the time duration of another side green light is increased and so on. The proposed system has been implemented using microcontroller at mega 16, AVR studio 4, AVR DUDE GUI and USB programmer. To making the traffic automated using RFID is just a step towards making the road transportation system smarter and safer. It is also a small contribution to making the city smart and safe.