Traffic Survey at Certain Congested Intersections & Suggesting Their Ramdial Measures

Abstract

Traffic engineering covers a broad range of engineering applications with a common focus: the nation’s system of highways and streets. Often defined as nation’s “life blood circulation system”, this important part of national infrastructure supports the vast majority of inter- and intra-city movement of both people and goods. Thus traffic system plays a very important role in every aspect of society. Traffic engineering involves a variety of engineering and management skills, including planning, management, design construction, operational control, maintenance, and system optimization. Congestion is one of the major problems encountered by the traffic engineers of our times, while the principal goal of traffic engineer remains the provision of a safe system for road and highway traffic. Design construction, operational control, or system optimization may be employed to relieve congestion. This would increase safety and cause reduction in the wastage of fuel and time. System optimization provides with a number of cost effective solutions. These alternatives may be employed to relieve congestion; this in turn would improve safety and level of service. Optimization is considered to be an extremely feasible technique particularly for third world countries, which may not allocate funds for improvement of safety. Signal optimization is achieved by altering the cycle lengths of different approaches of intersections which lie within a network considered for reduction in congestion and safety. It participates in growth of economy without becoming a burden on it. System optimization is being widely used throughout the world to attain the above mentioned objectives. The results of this project shows by using optimization techniques; we can reduce delay and improve level of service at signalized intersections.