Red, Amber, Green…. The operation of traffic lights and pedestrian crossings are, for all us, a familiar and an ever present in our daily lives. The operation and sequence of traffic lights is well understood but the timing and placement of such services is not a trivial task. The aim of a traffic light system is to facilitate the smooth (efficient) flow of traffic via our road system. In this project, the group is required to develop an application that allows the user to configure a network of traffic lights (with or without a pedestrian crossing feature) across an urban environment and then show/demonstrate its operation in a time ordered fashion. The user should be able to set up a network of roads with sets of lights at each junction and then step through the network operation while a “car” or user journeys through the system. The user may be a pedestrian or road user (car, motorcycle or bike). The programme should have the ability to define operation of light sequences (at each junction) to be globally synchronised or indeed to work independently – subject to the requirement that no junction would permit contradicting lights to be “Green” simultaneously. No deliberate crashes! As a first consideration, the group may want to consider grid based road systems such as Glasgow and New York as exemplar networks. It is left to the users to consider if filter lanes are to be considered.

Need to look as some of the other projects as there is a link with routing and traffic management. Note ascii characters – can change colours of display without the need to for GUI code – although use of GUI would be good.

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