Title: Assisting the passage of heavy vehicles, increasing traffic safety designing traffic lights and urban lighting in a smart city

Authors: N. Fecser

Addresses: Department of Automation, Széchenyi István University, Egyetem tér 1, H-9026 Győr, Hungary

Abstract: Congestions caused by traffic bottlenecks or accidents have become commonplace. The consequences are delays, as well as environmental, health and economic damage. One of the solutions to the problem is to expand transport infrastructures and to apply and develop advanced control systems, as well as to create a public lighting network for new traffic routes and pavements. The capacity of the road section examined in this study is inadequate during peak hours, and significant queues are formed. Turning in a wide angle from the secondary direction to the left, especially with heavy vehicles is difficult and involves a risk of accidents. Due to heavy traffic, the intersection is to be controlled by traffic lights. In this study, the implementation of a traffic-engineering plan of a junction situated in Győr is presented with phase-timing plans. In the second part of the study, the results of measurements are described.

Keywords: traffic bottlenecks; transport infrastructures; public lighting network; capacity of the road; large trucks; risk of accidents; phase-timing plans; traffic control with traffic lights; implementation of traffic engineering; lighting technology; heavy vehicles.

DOI: 10.1504/IJHVS.2024.139695

International Journal of Heavy Vehicle Systems, 2024 Vol.31 No.4, pp.562 - 578

Received: 03 May 2023
Accepted: 08 May 2023
Published online: 05 Jul 2024 *

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