*Professor, G. H Patel Post Graduate, Department of Science & technology, Sardar Patel University, V.V. Nagar
**Ph.D. Scholor, CHARUSAT, Changa
Online published on 7 November, 2013.
Traffic or Road sign Detection and recognition is a new research area in traffic control system. It is a real time system. It is also known as a Driver Assistant System(DAS) which is useful to the driver to provide information regarding the traffic rules, instructions and information given on the road at the time of driving. This paper gives brief about literature survey of traffic sign recognition and detection system and proposes a new model for the same to overcome the limitations of existing systems.