PRESENTED BY : OLUWAMIJUWONLO FAYE

CO-PRESENTED BY : OGUNRANTI ABIODUN RASAQ

DENSITY BASED
INTELLIGENT TRAFFIC LIGHT

Contents

Project Objective
Project Significance

Project Methodology
Mode of Operation
Conclusion

Project Objective

To design and
develop an
intelligent density
based traffic light
controller using
microcontroller
(PIC 18F452)

Project OBJECTIVE

The intelligent density

based traffic light control
offers a unique solution
to the traffic challenges
currently being
experienced on most of
the Nigerian roads.

Project Significance

The population of Nigeria

projected to be over 150 million
and an inevitable increase
expected consequently leading to
the growing number of road
users and the limited resources
provided by current
infrastructures lead to ever
increasing traveling times.
Hence, there is currently an
urgent need to improve the
present traffic control system
used on our roads to a better

Project Methodology

The project design and construction can be

divided into two stages:
Software design and simulation

Hardware implementation
The intelligence of the traffic light
controller was made possible due to the
use of microcontroller.

Software development

The microcontroller is a small computer on

chip that could perform any task depending
on the instruction or program stored into it.
The microcontroller (PIC 18F452) used in
this project was programmed using Cprogramming language and the compiler
used was CCS-C compiler.

Hardware Implementation

The devices that were used for the

construction of the density based traffic
light are:

Infra-red Distance Sensor

PIC Microcontroller (PIC 18F452)
Light Emitting Diode (LED).
Step-down Transformer (12Vdc)

Hardware Implementation

Discrete components
o
o
o
o

Limiting Resistors
Capacitors
Voltage regulator
Diodes

Cable connectors

Mode of Operation

The density based traffic light controller

operates in two ways:

Normal timing operation

Congestion timing operation

The normal timing operation uses a

fixed timing for each sequence

Mode of Operation

The normal timing sequence

Green
10secs
Yellow
5secs
Red
10secs
Red + Yellow
5secs

Mode of Operation

The congestion timing sequence is quite

different from the normal timing sequence such
that when the sensor senses the traffic density
the period when the traffic light is about to
change, its increases the GREEN(GO) time to
15secs also the RED(STOP) time becomes
15secs as well.

Mode of Operation

Program
if(sensor > 1.9v)
/////// sensor senses traffic
{
congestion timing sequence ;
}
else
/////// sensor senses no-traffic
{
normal timing sequence ;
}

Traffic Light Sequence

LANE 1 &
LANE 5

LANE 3 &
LANE 7

LANE 2 &
LANE 6

LANE 4 &
LANE 8

GREEN

GREEN

RED

RED

YELLOW

YELLOW

RED+YELLOW

RED+YELLOW

RED

RED

GREEN

GREEN

RED+YELLOW

RED+YELLOW

YELLOW

YELLOW

Project Prototype
IR
SENSOR
TRAFFIC
LIGHT

CIRCUIT
BOARD

Conclusion

The density based intelligent traffic light

control is no doubt a very economical
way of reducing and controlling traffic on
our roads.

Thank You