How smart traffic lights and sensors regulate traffic in Moscow

How smart traffic lights and sensors regulate traffic in Moscow

Traffic jams strongly affect life in big cities as well as that of simple towns. Smart traffic lights and sensors are meant to carefully follow the traffic on the roads. In Moscow, nowadays, there are 2500-3000 smart traffic lights working on different modes which are:

• ✓ Local mode, in this case the traffic light works according to a program prepared beforehand.
• ✓ With coordinated control, several traffic lights work in parallel in one bundle.
• ✓ The adaptive mode works in the following way. The traffic light gets information about the roads based on which it does analysis. The information is provided by the sensors which are located inside the road at the intersection.

The principle of operation of a smart traffic light is the dynamic control of signals entering the main control server, which are managed by traffic police officers while sensors play the role of electronic traffic controller, they count the cars on the roads and allow you to calculate the flows of cars in each lane.