Traffic Light Sequences

MEI Mechanics-1 Maths course-work An investigation into automatic Traffic Lights Table of contents         2 Introduction         3 Question         3 Aims         3 Simplifications and Assumptions         4 Road         4 Traffic Lights         4 Vehicles         4 General assumptions.         4 SEQUENCE OF THE TRAFFIC LIGHT         5 MODEL 1         5 Maximum distance travelled in order for a vehicle to clear the system         5 Period of one cycle         6 Period of green light         6 Dead Time         6 Period of red light         7 MODEL 2         8 Data collection         9 Real Situation         9 List of other factors         9 CONCLUSION         10 Introduction In this brief report, my aim is …

…of flow         4.26ms-1±0.75ms-1 List of other factors · Weather · Time of day · Presence of special vehicles, e.g. Articulated lorries, bicycles, horses etc. · Reckless drivers jumping lights. CONCLUSION This project has given me an interesting insight into the outwardly simple maths of everyday systems. I would consider these models to be anything but perfect as there are far to many random factors involved and this makes it too difficult to model accurately without chaos theory.