Revista Elektrón (Dec 2018)
Modelling and Simulation of a Street Intersection in a Multi-Agent Context
Abstract
Losses of time due to congestion and traffic jams are current events in cities due to a non-optimal configuration of the traffic lights. Various sciences and specialties have tried to understand the phenomenon and identify the causes in order to obtain an appropriate solution. The present work introduces the extension of a system oriented to agents whose purpose is to reduce the waiting time of the drivers in an intersection of streets; modelling now vehicles (cars and taxis), pedestrians and an intelligent traffic light that evaluates the weights of the flows in two directions (X and Y), turn left and right. For which, the validation was carried out in six possible scenarios, defined by means of the variation of the flow of vehicles and pedestrians, of a turning frequency in 20 and 80 and the application of different adjustment factors for intelligent traffic lights. The simulation environment was implemented in NetLogo, which allowed comparing the impact of the use of the intelligent traffic light versus a fixed-time traffic light. Finally, we will present the conclusions and future work.
