Traffic light control system architecture for an optimal intersection safety

Author

Ngii, Henry ; Puggé, Mike ; Juergen, Weingart ; Strobel, Otto

Author_Institution

SWARCO Traffic Syst., Unterensingen, Germany

fYear

2011

fDate

26-30 June 2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

A high number of accidents in the European countries happen at intersections. This paper describes a system architecture with its environmental models and the single functions for a traffic unit control ACTROS family developed by the company SWARCO within the EU-project INTERSAFE-2. It details the different functional modules with focus on the Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCIe), which has been adopted as a general purpose IO device interconnect in automotive applications. Its features lead to a significant increase of safety at intersections based on state of the art sensors and vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) real time communication.

Keywords

automated highways; field programmable gate arrays; optical communication equipment; peripheral interfaces; ACTROS family; EU-project INTERSAFE-2; European countries; IO device interconnect; SWARCO; automotive applications; environmental models; optimal intersection safety; peripheral component interconnect express; traffic light control system architecture; traffic unit control; Accidents; Computer architecture; Driver circuits; Field programmable gate arrays; Safety; Sensors; Vehicles; FPGA; Intel ATOM; Intelligent Transportation Systems; PCIe; Traffic Controller ACTROS; vehicle-to-infrastructure;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON), 2011 13th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Stockholm

ISSN

2161-2056

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-0881-7

Electronic_ISBN

2161-2056

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICTON.2011.5971155

Filename

5971155