An efficient and intelligent road traffic management system is the corner stone for every smart cities.
Vehicular Ad-hoc NETworks (VANETs) applies the principles of mobile ad hoc networks in a wireless network for Vehicle-to-vehicle
data exchange communication. VANETs supports in providing an efficient Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) for smart cities.
Road traffic congestion is a most common problem faced by many of the metropolitan cities all over the world. Traffic on the road
networks are widely increasing at a larger rate and the current traffic management systems is unable to tackle this impediment.
In this paper, we propose an Efficient Intelligent Traffic Light Control and Deviation (EITLCD) system, which is based on multi-agent
system. This proposed system overcomes the difficulties of the existing traffic management systems and avoids the traffic congestion
problem compare to the prior scenario. The proposed system is composed of two systems: Traffic Light Controller (TLC) system and
Traffic Light Deviation (TLD) system. The TLC system uses three agents to supervise and control the traffic parameters. TLD system
deviate the vehicles before entering into congested road. Traffic and travel related information from several sensors are collected
through a VANET environment to be processed by the proposed technique. The proposed structure comprises of TLC system and makes use of
vehicle measurement, which is feed as input to the TLD system in a wireless network. For route pattern identification, any traditional
city map can be converted to planar graph using Euler’s path approach. The proposed system is validated using Nagel–Schreckenberg model
and the performance of the proposed system is proved to be better than the existing systems in terms of its time, cost, expense,
maintenance and performance.