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Title:
TRAFFIC SIGNAL CONTROLLER AND PROGRAM
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JP2013143089
Kind Code:
A
Abstract:

To execute control of a traffic signal in detail and in real time while preventing arithmetic load from increasing.

A traffic signal controller 10 acquires a degree of traffic jam calculated on the basis of acceleration of vehicles 22 by a communication device 12. A traffic light control part 11 calculates a degree of average traffic jam sign for each predetermined number of vehicles 22 which are expected to enter a road where a traffic light 2 is installed, and generates a signal control instruction for controlling timing of changing signal light color of the traffic light 2 on the basis of the degree of average traffic jam sign. The traffic light control part 11 instructs the traffic light to elongate the lighting time of lighting display permitting traveling or to shorten the lighting time of lighting display inhibiting traveling when the degree of average traffic jam sign is long, by a signal control instruction.


Inventors:
ECHIZEN TAKAMASA
Application Number:
JP2012004175A
Publication Date:
July 22, 2013
Filing Date:
January 12, 2012
Export Citation:
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Assignee:
HONDA MOTOR CO LTD
International Classes:
G08G1/07; G08G1/01
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
Masatake Shiga
Yoshifumi Saeki
Mitsuo Teramoto
Suzuki Mitsuyoshi
Kazuya Nishi
Shingo Suzuki