Towards Traffic Saturation Detection Based on the Hough Transform Method

Abstract

The principal aim of this paper is to solve the problem of traffic saturation, in using only GPS on board of vehicles and servers in a station for the control, without deploying camera or more materials on roads. GPS takes a large region into account. The challenge is to reduce materials effectively deployed on board of vehicules and on roads. This paper deals with the application of the Hough transform method to the automatic detection of traffic saturation and monitoring in order to prevent drivers for traffic saturation. The Hough Transform method establishes a relation between an image space and a parameter space in 2D. In a map, Some main roads have been identified by their coordinates in the accumulator. The Hough Transform method is applied to the Cartesian coordinates of GPS coordinates for vehicles to determine the number of votes around the coordinates of main roads in the accumulator. The number of votes around main road coordinates shows saturation roads and drivers will receive a voice message to change directions. Forward, the method could be an alternative to elaborate a solution to fight against Covid-19 to detect the presence of the crowd in a street based on GPS.

Traffic Saturation Detection using Hough Transform and VANET

“…Therefore, several new algorithms have been proposed, such as probabilistic TH, random TH, hierarchical TH and incremental TH. Sere et al in [22] established the double of a rectangle to detect numerical straight lines and then they applied the method for the detection of the saturation of road traffic [4].…”

“…The basic idea of the project will be to use real-time traffic updates for a period of time. Algorithm 3 describes the process of alerting about saturation on a given road proposed by SERE et al [4].…”

“…The main objective of this paper is to solve the problem of road traffic and server saturation in a control station. The challenge is to reduce the saturation of road traffic and the number of devices deployed in vehicles and on roads [4]. This paper proposes a method to detect traffic congestion, traffic signs, white lines on the roadways using Hough's transformation method and the communication protocol between vehicles in order to alert the drivers about the road condition.…”