Development of a System for Traffic Data Analysis and Recommendation

Abstract

Traffic Monitoring System is a traffic analysis program that authorizes the commuter to make better choices for the everyday commute. This system provides near real-time analysis and display of local traffic information measured by historical data and GPS data along roads and accessed by the user via a web server. There has always been the necessity of accurate and real time traffic information among the commuters and drivers of large cities. In present times, with the increased use and availability of GPS enabled device, a traffic monitoring system based on GPS data is highly practical. Vehicles equipped with a GPS device driving through the traffic of different roads can generate useful information, for example, vehicle geolocation and vehicle information regarding the road. Therefore, we have developed a system using these data, so that it can be sent back to a web service and stored in a database. Later based on this information, a map can be generated that reflects the near real time traffic condition with the vehicle marker of a city at any given time to any user. Traffic intensity and estimate waiting time can be generated also based on the collected information. Our traffic monitoring system based on these principles, requires less physical maintenance, has faster deployment capability and potentially can monitor a large section of the area.