Smart Control of Traffic Lights Using AI

Author(s): Mihir Gandhi

Originally published on Towards AI.

The congestion of urban traffic is becoming one of the critical issues with the increasing population and automobiles in cities. Traffic jams not only cause extra delay and stress for the drivers but also increase fuel consumption, add transportation costs, and increase carbon dioxide and airpollution. Although it seems to pervade everywhere, megacities are the ones most affected by it. And its ever-increasing nature makes it imperative to know the road traffic density in real-time for better signal control and effective traffic management. There can be different causes ofcongestion in traffic, such as insufficient capacity, unrestrained demand, large red light… Read the full blog for free on Medium.

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