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Congestion is a serious issue due to vehicular traffic. One of the known cause of traffic congestion is the amount of time spend waiting for the red light to change green. The changing of traffic light is hard coded and it is not reliant on traffic volume. There is therefore need to simulate and optimize traffic control to better accommodate density based traffic rather than time based. This system attempts to lessen possibilities of traffic jams brought about by traffic lights to a reasonable degree. This project, a density based traffic control system is been implemented to solve this problem. The system entails programming an Ardunio using Ardunio access to the road by selecting the lane with the high number of vehicles. The traffic lights are modified to chip away at an auspicious premise until there is a signal identified by the infrared sensors. The sensor identified an object (i.e. a car, a motor cycle etc) and signals the Ardunio to control the traffic lights for its individual path. Once there is o sign identified by any of the four sensors the traffic lights keep on delaying with an auspicious premise. The mean response time of the sensor was found to be 0.39 seconds. Further research is recommended to produce the device on a large scale to be deployed to all roads in the country.