Title :
Traffic light control system architecture for an optimal intersection safety
Author :
Ngii, Henry ; Puggé, Mike ; Juergen, Weingart ; Strobel, Otto
Author_Institution :
SWARCO Traffic Syst., Unterensingen, Germany
Abstract :
A high number of accidents in the European countries happen at intersections. This paper describes a system architecture with its environmental models and the single functions for a traffic unit control ACTROS family developed by the company SWARCO within the EU-project INTERSAFE-2. It details the different functional modules with focus on the Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCIe), which has been adopted as a general purpose IO device interconnect in automotive applications. Its features lead to a significant increase of safety at intersections based on state of the art sensors and vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) real time communication.
Keywords :
automated highways; field programmable gate arrays; optical communication equipment; peripheral interfaces; ACTROS family; EU-project INTERSAFE-2; European countries; IO device interconnect; SWARCO; automotive applications; environmental models; optimal intersection safety; peripheral component interconnect express; traffic light control system architecture; traffic unit control; Accidents; Computer architecture; Driver circuits; Field programmable gate arrays; Safety; Sensors; Vehicles; FPGA; Intel ATOM; Intelligent Transportation Systems; PCIe; Traffic Controller ACTROS; vehicle-to-infrastructure;
Conference_Titel :
Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON), 2011 13th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Stockholm
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-0881-7
Electronic_ISBN :
2161-2056
DOI :
10.1109/ICTON.2011.5971155
