Traffic Congestion || CDR

COMPETENCY
DEMONSTRATION
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Career Episode 1
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CE 1.1 Project Information
Name of the project: Design of an Intelligent Auto Traffic Signal Controller with
Emergency Override
Location of the project: [PLEASE FILL]
Project Duration: [PLEASE FILL]
Organization: [PLEASE FILL]
Role and Designation during the time: [PLEASE FILL]
CE 1.2 Project Background
CE 1.2.1 Characteristics of the project
The world is facing the problems off traffic congestion in day to day life. Monitoring and
controlling of such huge traffic in a busy city is a hectic job for anyone. Taking up this problem
as a research topic for my project I came up with the idea of working to improve the controlling
and monitoring system of a buys city street would help the traffic control to have some load
taken off their head. The flow of traffic changes from time to time, time off the day and also the
day of the week. It wold be a hard project to implement the theory of this topic into the practical
field. Due to the limited amount of resources available for the construction of the infrastructure it
would have to be an intelligent controller for the implementation of the traffic lights. For this
projects implementation I have selected the use of radio frequency identification tagging system,
infrared sensors and high speed microprocessor s with controllers to achieve the best results.

CE 1.2.2 Objectives developed for the project
For the implementation thee main objectives which I had followed to implement the
project and deliver the best project are as follows:
 To design an automated intelligent traffic signal controlling system.
 To identify the roads where the amount of traffic is high and to manage the traffic with
correct timing.
 To identify any emergency vehicles in the road which is being monitored.
CE 1.2.3 My area of work
I was responsible for putting together the different components to create the prototype of
the project that I had thought of implementing. I had first thought of using image processing
mechanism to identify the emergency cars in the roads but later found out that the harsh weather
conditions like rain and snow would affect the camera feed very badly making it impossible to
recognise the vehicles. This is the reason I changed by project to use the infrared coupling
sensors and RFID tags for the emergency vehicles.