Road Traffic Signal Control and Management System : A Survey

From the past few decades, technology is out breaking with its significant application in each and every field. Gradually, technology is becoming integral part of human life and effectively used to address many societal issues. One such issue is traffic in urban areas that leads to elongated waiting time at road intersections. An Intelligent Traffic Signal System (ITSS) can mitigate the urban traffic congestion. Already many researchers are working towards and proposed various solutions or techniques. The solution involves combination of different technologies such as Fuzzy Logic, Wireless Sensor Network, Machine Learning, Artificial Neural Networks, Internet of Things, Microcontrollers and high level computing environments. The proposed ideas are capable of adapting to the traffic demands based on real time situations on the road, resulting in efficient utilization of the available road infrastructure. In this paper, an attempt has been made to classify the traffic control signal system deployed at the intersections based on technology adopted and various research contribution for developing ITSS are also summarised.