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Rapid increase in the private and public vehicles fleet causes urban centers heavily populated with limited transport road infrastructure. To overcome this, in real-time scenarios, queue length-based traffic light controllers are being designed utilizing light-weighted S-Edge devices. This system suffers from starvation problems if a road lane at the intersection continuously receives vehicles during peak hours. With this, higher green phase duration can be allocated to the same-lane multiple times despite vehicles on the other lanes’ longer waiting time. To tackle this problem, an efficient and smart edge computing (S-Edge)-driven traffic light controller is proposed by accounting the real-time heterogeneous vehicular dynamics at the fog computing node. The fog node executes the proposed fuzzy inference system to generate phase-cycle duration. Further, to allocate the phase duration effectively, a method for estimating the lane pressure is proposed for the edge controller utilizing average queue length and waiting time. S-Edge is a light-weighted actuated traffic light controller that generates traffic light control cycle duration and phase (red/yellow/green) duration. To validate the S-Edge controller, a prototype is developed on an Indian city OpenStreetMap utilizing the low-computing power IoT devices, i.e., Raspberry Pi, and a well-known open-source simulator, i.e., Simulation of Urban MObility.
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This research is supported by the Department of Science and Technology (DST), ICPS Division, and the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), New Delhi, Government of India, under Grant T-678 and 22(0817)/19/EMR-II, respectively.
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Sachan, A., Kumar, N. S-Edge: heterogeneity-aware, light-weighted, and edge computing integrated adaptive traffic light control framework. J Supercomput 79, 14923–14953 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11227-023-05216-0
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