Automated Traffic Management System Using Deep Learning Based Object Detection

The traffic menace in India’s metropolitan cities causes many travelers to suffer daily. In traffic control, simple and old forms of signal controllers, known as electro-mechanical signal controllers, are used till-date which use dial timers that have fixed, signalized intersection time plans. As the time is fixed, the people in the lane with the greatest number of vehicles must wait the most, leading to wastage of time, money, and natural resources such as petrol and diesel. The proposed system is a traffic light system with feedback in real-time. The vehicles present in a specific lane are detected using a camera and then the deep learning algorithm, YOLO (You Only Look Once) detects the total number of vehicles in a lane which is used for feedback control of the lights. The traffic lights controller changes its parameters in response to traffic length in a lane, optimizing the road use and the signal timing of an intersection will benefit from being adapted to the dominant flows changing over the time of the day. The experiment analysis reveals that response time for green light in real-time increases in the lane with a greater number of vehicles and is decreased for the lane with lesser number of vehicles keeping the total time the same, so effective in managing traffic.