Abstract:

Traffic congestion problems are now increasingly becoming part of our everyday life. Most people in the developed and developing countries alike are faced with problems of traffic congestion, though the root causes may not necessarily be of same nature. There are many reasons for traffic congestion and it seems that better developed roads, together with transport planning and scheduling are not alone adequate in solving this problem. In this paper we use fuzzy reasoning to ascertain the level of traffic congestion on a road leading to a road junction and provide an estimate of the delay in exiting that junction. This estimated delay can be used in ascertaining whether to proceed on that road or to use an alternate route.