Difficulties in efficiently and sustainably
distributing traffic arise with increased acceleration in metropolitan cities. To
overcome transportation challenges and improve traffic flow, the transportation
sector is heavily investing in new technologies. The development of new
technologies in transportation has brought solutions based on signal timing and
phase plan optimization to intersections controlled by signaling systems. However,
in some traffic volume scenarios, the developed methods may be ineffective and
therefore, it is necessary to update and operate new models accordingly. In
this study, a new fully adaptable traffic management strategy has been
implemented for smart intersections. This method has been tested with real
traffic data obtained from a smart intersection located in Antalya, a city with
heavy traffic flow due to its attraction to domestic and foreign tourists in
Turkey. Smart intersection arms trigger magnetic sensors to optimize signal
duration and phase plan according to incoming traffic demands. In order to
evaluate this approach, the SUMO Turkey Adaptation (Urban Mobility Analysis
System) package program developed by the Ministry of Environment, Urbanization
and Climate Change - General Directorate of Geographic Information Systems
under the 2020-2023 National Smart City Strategy and Action Plan was used. The
proposed method was analyzed on the original model designed in the simulation
program and compared with the existing methods in terms of transportation
parameters. It was observed that it provides more successful results than the
existing methods, and the system performance significantly increases,
especially in scenarios where left turns are reduced.