Extended Batches Petri Nets Based System for Road Traffic Management in WSNs

Abstract

One of the most critical issues in modern cities is transportation management. Issues that are encountered in this regard, such as traffic congestion, high accidents rates and air pollution etc., have pushed the use of Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) technologies in order to facilitate the traffic management. Seen in this perspective, this paper brings forward a road traffic management system based on wireless sensor networks; it introduces the functional and deployment architecture of the system and focuses on the analysis component that uses a new extension of batches Petri nets for modeling road traffic flow. A real world implementation of visualization and data analysis components were carried out.

Keywords

• road traffic modelling
• petri net
• architecture
• wireless sensor networks (WSN)
• traffic congestion
• traffic management
• traffic monitoring