Design of Regulatory Traffic Light Control Systems with Synchronized Timed Petri Nets

Yi Sheng Huang, Yi Shun Weng, Meng Chu Zhou

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Abstract

Fixing the phases is one of the common methods to control an urban traffic network. Once a road is filled with a high traffic flow approaching its capacity, the conventional traffic light controller is not able to handle this traffic congestion phenomenon well. In this paper, we propose a novel regulatory traffic light control system to handle such traffic congestion by using synchronized timed Petri nets (STPNs). Three kinds of intersections in an urban traffic network are defined and employed to demonstrate our new regulatory traffic light control system models. Finally, the liveness and reversibility of the proposed STPN models are proven through the reachability graph analysis method. To our knowledge, this is the first work that solves a traffic congestion problem with a regulatory traffic light control technique that is effective in preventing vehicles from entering traffic congestion zones.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)174-185
Number of pages12
JournalAsian Journal of Control
Volume20
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - Jan 2018

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering
  • Control and Systems Engineering
  • Mathematics (miscellaneous)

Keywords

  • Petri nets
  • Synchronized timed Petri nets
  • Traffic light control systems

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