Traffic congestion is a major problem in urban areas of India affecting the quality of life for the citizens. Traditional methods of traffic monitoring and management have imitations in terms of accuracy and scalability. There is a need for a more efficient and reliable system that can collect real-time traffic data and provide direct actionable insights to traffic authorities. In this paper, we propose to develop a cloud-based system consisting of a mobile application and a website, supported by a cloud-based server, that will collect real-time traffic data from collaborative users anonymously and use analytics to generate traffic density reports. The mobile application will be used to collect the real time data from the user. This data will be sent to the cloud server where it will be used for report generation. This report will be displayed to the authorities using a website, which would assist them in taking the right decisions.
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- Citizen-driven Intelligent Traffic Monitoring: Building a futuristic citizen-driven system where the users willingly share information about their travel on the road.
- Collection & Analysis of Data: Collection of data from mobile sensors – GPS position sensor (location), accelerometer (speed), G-sensor (crash detection), magnetism sensor (direction) and gyroscope (road inclination). This data will be used in analysis and representation of patterns for future traffic planning and management.
- Accident Alert: This involves finding patterns of accidents, identifying accident prone areas (from historical data), and alerting users when they approach an accident prone area.
- Support for Reporting Accidents: Added support to report accidents on the app, which will be sent to the respective authorities. The SOS feature will send the victim’s details (stored on the user’s device) to the concerned authorities, in case of a crash.
- Emergency Vehicle Alert: Added support for emergency vehicles, by sending an alert to the authorities, to better prepare them in handling the situation.
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Our system is different from Google Maps with respect to:
- Anonymity of user data.
- Alerts while approaching accident prone areas & for approaching emergency vehicles.
- Historical view of traffic data for authorities.
- Targeted support for emergency vehicles.
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As of now, there are NO apps that collect real-time traffic data from commuters and relay it directly to the authorities.
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SOS as a feature is not integrated in any other pre-existing service.
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Real-time Traffic Management: We can use real-time traffic data to optimize traffic flow, reduce congestion and improve safety on roads and highways.
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Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS): Intelligent transportation system is the application of sensing, analysis, control and communications technologies to ground transportation in order to improve safety, mobility and efficiency.
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Emergency Response: Improving the efficiency of emergency response vehicles by providing real-time location updates to the concerned authorities and ensuring swift travel for emergency vehicles.
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Traffic Incident Management: Reporting traffic incidents through our app to the concerned authorities, thereby reducing the impact on traffic flow and possibly saving lives using the SOS feature.
- Our system is designed for a scenario, where all our cooperative users have smartphones.
- Most users on the road will use the app and have GPS enabled.
- When the user registers, they will also be asked to log the vehicles they own – type, model, registration no.
- The registration no. Will only be used in case of an emergency for identification and will NOT be used to track them.
- While starting a journey, they will activate the app and also choose which of their vehicles they will be travelling in. They will also have an ‘other’ option in case they are not travelling in their own vehicle.
- Emergency vehicles will have a dedicated view of the app.
- The authorities will be able to track the emergency vehicles at all times.
- In case of road blockages due to minor inconveniences, users will be able to report this to the authorities responsible.
- Android App Development
- UI/UX Design
- IoT (Smartphone Sensors)
- Cloud operations
- Data analysis
