Congestion Control Technique Using Intelligent Traffic and Vanet

Road traffic jams is a most important problem in nearly all cities around the world, especially in developing regions resulting in enormous delays, increased fuel wastage and monetary losses. In this paper, we have obtained an in-sight idea of simulating real world scenario of a critical region where traffic congestion is very high. As it is not easy to set up and implement such a complicated system in real world before knowing the impact of all parameters used in Vehicle Ad hoc Network (VANET), a small real world area i.e. Jamshedpur Regal area was taken into consideration, for studying the impact of mobility in the VANET. Traffic movement has been deployed across the area under consideration using one of the realistic vehicular mobility models. The behavior of this network was simulated using SUMO and NS2 to study the impact of traffic and traffic lights at the intersection on packet transmission over Vehicle to Vehicle (V2V) communication using Ad hoc On Demand Vector (AODV) routing protocol and IEEE 802.11 standard. From the traffic simulation results, it is proved that congestion problem for the given sample map with traffic lights and predefined flow can be solved. There was negligible congestion at lanes when traffic logic was changed in accordance with allowing flow with high traffic overload to have high priority than those with low load.