Over the past decades, the world has witnessed an increase in the number of vehicles. According to the accident analysis and to the existing transport problems, the development of automated traffic control systems using adaptive management methods is the most optimal way to improve road traffic quality. From the technological point of view, the system must function according to the requirements for the traffic flow level and to the assessment of traffic efficiency, so a clear comparison of systems is impossible under the conditions of various principles for identifying managerial impacts and the designation of management system. The authors' analysis of the most commonly used traffic management technologies proves that experts choose the system architecture that affects its functions and the ability to implement one or another method of management. In accordance with the ITS approach and management tasks at each hierarchy level, we believe that the traffic management system of the intelligent transport system should be based on the principle of multi-level architecture using ring Ethernet technologies, which corresponds more to the diamond-shaped system structure; it allows to distribute methods of traffic management for purposes and to separate the informational and technological elements of the system.