Dynamic traffic management system via GPS tracking and localization

Abstract

As cities grow in size and population, they all face the same fate of having very busy core city areas, with roads that were never designed to manage heavy amounts of traffic and no space for road network expansion either. Therefore the logical solution is to use the existing road networks more efficiently. Although people have come up with several techniques such as the use of loop detectors, image processing and transmission of vehicle speeds, they do not tend to be very practical or effective since the data those systems provide can either be very inaccurate or simply do not provide enough information for managing traffic properly in most scenarios. This paper is based on several algorithms which have been developed in order to use GPS data on vehicles, taking into consideration real world inaccuracies that can occur, to create a system of localization where traffic lights and road signs communicate directly to only a specific group of vehicles to which the traffic signal or road sign applies to.