Real-Time Traffic Controlling Through Multi-Agent Technology

Abstract

Abstract: In Sri Lanka, most of the traffic controlling happens through a fixed time controlling and runs on a static environment. However, these traffic control systems are not much effective compared to humanbased traffic control. This research is focused on the design and development of a multiagent- based real-time traffic controlling system that should be capable of controlling traffic effectively. The proposed multi-agent system technology is one of the modern software techniques, capable of handling complexity in the dynamic environment. Thus, the multi-agent system has been designed with a vehicle, junction, and passengers are considered as agents. Traffic control has been arranged through communication among agents. As the initial stage of the research, traffic behaviour was simulated through the NetLogo simulation tool. The efficiency of the traffic controlling was calculated for the three different approaches including, an uncontrolled way, time-based static method, and agent-based controlling. According to the simulated results, agent-based traffic control provides remarkable efficiency than the other existing methods.