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Proceedings - Istituto di Analisi dei Sistemi ed Informatica - Cnr

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INTELLIGENT TRANSPORT SYSTEMS: ROLE OF SENSORS IN<br />

TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT<br />

Aman MOUDGIL 1 Gaurav MOUDGIL 2 Munish BANSAL 3<br />

Abstract. Transportation Infrastructure is the backbone of every country. This is<br />

the gateway to economic development and subsequently, a healthy economy.<br />

Urbanization process in most of cities has reach<strong>ed</strong> an alarming stage, floo<strong>di</strong>ng the<br />

urban regions. Various attempts have been made to provide the necessary<br />

transport services and relat<strong>ed</strong> infrastructure to meet the requirement. The rapid<br />

increase in transportation facilities has l<strong>ed</strong> to large amount of traffic problems<br />

inclu<strong>di</strong>ng violating traffic rules lea<strong>di</strong>ng to accidents (sometimes mat be fatal).<br />

This paper outlines the application of Information Technology in controlling<br />

transportation systems to solve many of the problems.<br />

1. Introduction<br />

With the rising automobile industry, and the banks helping mankind in fulfilling their<br />

dreams, the number of automobiles has grown exponentially in the past few years. This has<br />

l<strong>ed</strong> to the fact that once consider<strong>ed</strong> a luxury, vehicles have now turn<strong>ed</strong> out to be a necessity<br />

and almost each and every person owns some vehicle or the other (be it a car, scooter,<br />

motorcycle, etc). This sharp increase in vehicles has l<strong>ed</strong> to large amount of traffic problems<br />

and the ones in a hurry prefer to skip traffic lights even when signaling R<strong>ed</strong>.<br />

Now in order to help out the unlucky ones or rather to help the traffic authorities in<br />

managing this tumultuous traffic, the use of sensors at traffic junctions are propos<strong>ed</strong> that<br />

should ease the working of the traffic authorities. The use of this technology should help<br />

the traffic management in the way that they will not have to strain their lives (as they have<br />

to nowadays) in keeping a continuous check on the <strong>di</strong>sobe<strong>di</strong>ent freaks.<br />

1 Department of Computer Science and Engg,Sector-26 Chan<strong>di</strong>garh-Pin:160019,<br />

aman_moudgil3000@yahoo.com<br />

2 MS-SEMM University of California, Berkeley, gaurav_moudgil2000@yahoo.com<br />

3 B.E-Civil Engg Punjab Engg. College,Sector-12 Chan<strong>di</strong>garh-Pin:160012,<br />

munishbansal29@yahoo.com<br />

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