© Alla Kononenko, e-mail: allabelorus@ukr.net,
ORCID: 0000-0003-4826-0373;
© Liudmyla Nahrebelna, Phd, e-mail: nagrebelnaliydmila@gmail.com,
ORCID: 0000-0002-5615-9075
M.P. Shulgin State Road Research Institute State Enterprise (DerzhdorNDI SE)
“INTELLIGENT TRAFFIC LIGHT” – IMPACT ON ROAD TRAFFIC SAFETY
DOI: 10.33868/0365-8392-2022-3-271-43-49
Abstract. Road safety and measures to ensure it are a priority area of our state’s activity in view of the content of Article 3 of the Constitution of Ukraine, where a person, his life and health, safety are recognized as the highest social value in Ukraine. Reducing the number of accidents, reducing the severity of the consequences of traffic accidents, and especially reducing road accidents with fatalities to a minimum is the main task of specialists who are engaged in improving road safety.
Traffic lights are one of the main components of road infrastructure, they are an optical signaling device designed to regulate traffic vehicles and pedestrians on roads and railway crossings. It is this device that regulates the movement of vehicles and pedestrians on the roadway and helps to avoid traffic accidents. Today, the traffic light has entered our lives so much that it is even difficult to imagine how it is possible to regulate traffic flows and ensure the safety of pedestrians on the roads without it. Adaptive or so-called “smart traffic lights” are considered the most modern type of traffic light regulation.
Smart traffic lights are modern equipment that allows you to measure the intensity of traffic at the intersection and quickly, in real time, change regulation programs to reduce traffic jams. Artificial intelligence itself analyzes flow parameters, time and date, intensity to improve traffic.
It is worth noting that despite the obvious advantages, smart traffic lights will not be able to completely solve the problem of traffic jams, but they will help to partially solve the problem of traffic accidents and support the ecological situation, since the level of emissions of harmful substances into the atmosphere is reduced thanks to the smooth movement of traffic.
Keywords: street and road network, traffic jam, smart traffic light, traffic flow.
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