Computer Science ›› 2017, Vol. 44 ›› Issue (Z6): 276-283.doi: 10.11896/j.issn.1002-137X.2017.6A.064

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Traffic Control Mechanism Design and Verification Based on VANET

YANG Lin, ZHANG Wen-li, ZHU Qin and PENG Chao   

  • Online:2017-12-01 Published:2018-12-01

Abstract: In recent years,worldwide rapid development in automobile industries and growing rate of vehicle ownership have been witnessed.Consequently,the thorny issue of traffic congestion has bothered more and more people.To alle-viate traffic jams as well as enhance traffic efficiency,this paper proposed a traffic control mechanism based on VANET.At first,we proposed a cooperative traffic light control mechanism for multiple intersections based on semi-real-time processing by combining the concepts of fixed-time control and traffic-response control.In our mechanism,the traffic light controller will use trajectory prediction method to predict the traffic situation of the next period,and then make the optimal decision of traffic light phase setting for the next period according to the prediction result.The aim of our mechanism is to minimize the waiting time of all the vehicles.This paper also proposed a heuristic algorithm for dynamic route planning to enhance individual’s travel efficiency in traffic system.On the basis of Dijkstra algorithm,we adopted a heuristic method to calculate the weight of each road.Vehicles can avoid traffic jam as much as possible by adopting this algorithm.To verify the performance of our proposed VANET traffic control mechanism,we ran simulation experiments by combining SUMO with NS3.The simulation results demonstrate that our proposed traffic control mechanism is both effective and practical.It is able to reduce traffic load and average waiting time of vehicles,as well as release traffic jams and divert jammed vehicles,thus can improve road traffic situation of the whole transportation system.

Key words: VANET,Traffic light control,Routing planning,Traffic control mechanism

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