Now-a-days, with a huge increase in public and private transport as well as the ever increasing population, the traffic on the roads has significantly increased. This leads to a lot of wastage of precious man hours. The current situation for controlling a traffic light uses timer for each phase. In this paper we will talk about how this traffic can be controlled by using electronic sensors in order to detect vehicles and control the traffic signal. The other method discussed in this paper focuses on analysis of traffic density using image processing techniques. For this method, camera is being used to capture the video. The captured video will be converted into image frames, which will be used to analyze traffic density. We also aim to detect presence of emergency vehicles in traffic and give that lane priority to open. Hence, we will be analyzing traffic density on every signal using image processing and hardware systems i.e. IR sensors to change the waiting time frame of every lane.
Image Processing, IR Sensors, Traffic Density
