Egyptian Informatics Journal

Egyptian Informatics Journal

Volume 23, Issue 3, September 2022, Pages 417-426
Egyptian Informatics Journal

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Smart cities: Fusion-based intelligent traffic congestion control system for vehicular networks using machine learning techniques

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Abstract

Smart cities have been developed over the past decade, and reducing traffic congestion has been the top concern in smart city development. Short delays in communication between vehicles and Roadside Units (RSUs), smooth traffic flow, and road safety are the key challenges of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSs). The rapid upsurge in the number of road vehicles has increased traffic congestion and the number of road accidents. To fix this issue, Vehicular Networks (VNs) have developed many new ideas, including vehicular communications, navigation, and traffic control. Machine Learning (ML) is an efficient approach to finding hidden insights into ITS without being programmed explicitly by learning from data. This research proposed a fusion-based intelligent traffic congestion control system for VNs (FITCCS-VN) using ML techniques that collect traffic data and route traffic on available routes to alleviate traffic congestion in smart cities. The proposed system provides innovative services to the drivers that enable a view of traffic flow and the volume of vehicles available on the road remotely, intending to avoid traffic jams. The proposed model improves traffic flow and decreases congestion. The proposed system provides an accuracy of 95% and a miss rate of 5%, which is better than previous approaches.

Keywords

Vehicular networks
Smart city
Machine learning
Fusion

Abbreviations

ITS
Intelligent Transportation System
TMSs
Traffic Management Systems
ML
Machine Learning

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Peer review under responsibility of Faculty of Computers and Information, Cairo University.

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