Research Article
Intelligent Traffic Management System Based on the Internet of Vehicles (IoV)
Table 3
Notations—parameter and symbol definitions that are used in the algorithms and the figures.
| Symbol | Description |
| | The number of roads at the intersection (default: 4) | | The number of lanes on the road r. | | Minimum time to open a road (default: 3 sec) | | Maximum time to open a road, to prevent the starvation of roads having few vehicles | | Maximum time for a red signal. This is very important to avoid starvation | | Transition time to change the open road state from open to closed. Equivalent to the yellow light signal | | Total estimated time to service one round of all the roads | | Time at which the road r became red | | Time since green light is on | | The currently open road (similar to the green light) | | A timer for the open road (green timer) | | Current time | | Road heading direction | | The intersection stop line for the road r | | Distance from the current location of vehicle i on the road r to the intersection stop line | | Maximum distance from the intersection stop line on any road to consider any vehicle in the vehicle count. Typically, this value is set to 400 meters | | Number of vehicles queued on the road r within a distance from the intersection |
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