A former graduate of the Department of Information Technologies and a Ph.D. Assistant Professor at the Chair of Information Systems Kirill Chirkunov has developed a system allowing traffic lights to work in accordance with the current road situation.
His 3D model of Smart Traffic Lights (or Smart Intersection) illustrates how to regulate road loading by means of the traffic lights sharing the information about moving objects and traffic jams. This makes idling at the traffic lights sensible. Fig.1
鈥淭his system is trainable in real time as it tunes to a particular situation and changes the mode while all the common traffic lights work according to a rigid algorithm which can be changed only once in a while,鈥� says Kirill Chirkunov, the author of the project.
Moreover, Kirill emphasizes the absence of a core module in the system as the traffic lights are to share the information directly, without sending it to the core, which reduces the risk of the whole system malfunctioning dramatically.
In case the new system is implemented, we cannot promise that Novosibirsk roads will totally get rid of traffic jams, which is impossible, but our roads will have a much greater traffic capacity due to reducing the cars idle time at the traffic lights. Thus, the number and the length of the jams will decrease. Unfortunately, you will not see the system put into life immediately as its implementation requires serious financial investments.
