Abstract

Technology growth brings innovation and production of various kinds of new vehicles, leading to road traffic congestion especially in urban cities. As such intersections are congested with traffic delay and access denial especially for emergency vehicles which are for unique and essential services. This paper presented an intelligent road traffic control and management system that gives priority to emergency vehicles at intersections as demanded. This system manages and controls traffics at intersection using Road Side Unit (RSU) to calculate traffic queue, differentiate other vehicles from emergency vehicles at the intersections tracks/pathways and forwards the necessary information to Traffic Management Centre (TMC) of each unit that will thereafter communicates with a Central TMC to calculate and allocate time for permitting or denying access to road. This yields efficient and effective result in managing intersection tracks/pathways. This approach increases road capacity, traffic flow, prevents traffic congestions, accident and thus increases society economic growth and good for intelligent road traffic management and control system.