Programação e sincronização semafóricas a partir de métodos numéricos

Abstract

The growing number of vehicles in cities brings with it traffic management and management problems caused by misuse of roads, which lead to low demand in certain locations and queues in others, resulting in user disruptions such as delays, stress and accidents. In this way, one of the ways to guarantee urban mobility to the population is through a better use of the road, which can occur through a good performance of the traffic light system. Thus, this work presents programming methods to determine cycle times to be used at traffic lights along General Sampaio Street, in the city of Alegrete / RS, which seek their efficiency, through the characteristics of the vehicle flow. For this, theoretical references on the subject were studied, traffic behavior was observed, and the methods used, based on the data obtained by Silveira (2018), and on the hourly variation of traffic characteristics were compared. Finally, it was concluded that through traffic signal programming it is possible to guarantee traffic safety, agility and fluidity through the use of appropriate cycle times for each time period.