Highway Entrance Ramp Monitoring and Control using Soft Computing Techniques

Abstract

Highway entrance ramp monitoring and control is used to regularize the flow of traffic entering through the highway entrance ramps. It detects the flow of traffic enter ing through the highway ramp monitoring system and controls the flow of traffic using ramp monitoring and control algorithm. This algorithm employs some soft computing techniques which is a suitable choice due to the imprecise information and the level of inaccuracy in the monitoring data available. The use of AI - based search algorithms to calibrate the parameters of a micro - simulation model or estimate the dynamic demand needed to run the model is an area that has received significant attention from researchers recently. Use of soft computing techniques improves the traffic flow as also increases the efficiency of the traffic system with enhanced control a nd safety.