AIM AND OBJECTIVES The aim of the project is to design and develop a novel web based application that can dynamically recommend the best route and estimate the travel time for urban transport. The objectives of the project are the following: 1) To utilize the real-time data being generated and captured from the GPS installed in MTC buses on selected routes in the city. 2) To analyse this data and to make inferences on the traffic scenario along these routes. 3) Efficient data structures and parallelized implementation of algorithms to be integrated into the existing design to improve the response time. 4) To build a web based application that can respond to queries on route and time. 5) To extend the application onto a mobile platform as well 6) To study the possibility of integrating machine learning strategies for further enhancements THE SOLUTION CHOSEN: In order to recommend the best route at any given point of time and to estimate the travel time for an indicated route the basic information required is the current rate of flow of traffic on the roads under consideration. This information can be captured by 1) using infrastructure placed on the roadside 2) using infrastructure placed inside vehicles Several approaches have been used to capture the flow of traffic by using various kinds of devices placed along the road side. Due to several limitations in this approach placing infrastructure within vehicle was found to be a better solution. “Internet of Vehicles” a domain specific application of the emerging “Internet of Things” will soon be the technology enabler that will provide the required data for such real-time traffic analyses. Currently GPS systems placed inside the MTC buses on selected routes provide the... ... middle of paper ... ...et, we can store the number of segments which contain the given point instead of outputting the segments which contain the point. This uses O(log n) query time, so is optimal. This novel idea definitely aids this by supplying the user with shortest routes. Thus the best route can be chosen from the options displayed based on traffic information. This simple idea can be used not only to help the users get over this but also aid the government in traffic and transportation planning based on the data supplied from sensors. Likewise it can be extrapolated to include the starting time and the system can predict the destination arrival time (in terms of current traffic) and predict the start time to reach the destination at a specified time. Or the system can even output routes which fits inside a duration of time allotted by the user to reach his choice of destination.
Today’s businesses are always looking for ways of making their workforce more efficient. With any vehicle fleet, fuel consumption is becoming a progressively larger cost to the business. And without accurate and real time data it’s very difficult to identify where they can make improvements, leaving their fleet operations without the tools they need to get the most from resources. Different types of GPS tracking and management systems gives you the tools you need to make positive changes, based upon accurate, up to date information. The transparency that GPS tracking and management systems make it possible for businesses to complete more jobs per week, reduce fuel costs, track scheduled maintenance, view proof of visit and time on site, optimize scheduling, routing, reduce administration and time sheets. There are multiple types of tracking systems all used for different types of businesses and workers, some of them are Radio Frequency Identification or RFID and Barcodes. Each one of these systems can hold information about a good or product. Also, businesses can figure out where they are wasting huge amounts of money and time where they should not be. This essay reviews RFID technology and its applications in today’s business world.
Various aspects of traffic congestion in Toronto have been analyzed in detail. It is clear that Toronto is facing a serious problem of traffic congestion since it is the most congested city in North America. Traffic congestion in Toronto costs over $ 2 billion annually and it is caused by a variety of factors. These factors are categorized into non-recurring and recurring factors. However, the paper focused on recurring factors which contribute to the largest proportion of traffic congestion in Canada. These include increased automobile use, poor planning and lapse in implementation of laws which govern traffic systems. This leads to the use of many private cars by employees who commute to work as opposed to use of public transport systems resulting in congestion. Traffic congestion in Toronto has various adverse effects including barriers to emergency services, delays, idle time and opportunity costs as well as pollution.
The related concept of Ambient Intelligence (AMI) cuddles greater user-approachable, more efficient services support, user-empowerment and support for human interactions. A future vision for ITS is described with reference to efficient road traffic management, services for smart travelers making inter-model journeys, smart cars, cooperative systems and automated highways.
No matter what any politician in Washington or employee of the Federal Highway Administration may say, there is a serious and immediate problem with our nation's transportation systems. The Texas Transportation Institute has recently done several studies that have produced some very alarming results. For example, the average American spends approximately 26 hours a year stuck in traffic. Let?s think about that. The ?average? American spends this long cruising at five miles per hour and cursing at other cars around. By saying average, the study means this figure also takes into account people living in rural areas who spend maybe one hour a year stuck in traffic. That means for the majority of us, in the Phoenix area and other large cities, we spend 3 or 4 times more wasting our valuable time in traffic. For people who drive into the city everyday for work, it might even be worse (Fay 3). Now that?s a lot of time if you ask me.
Overview Global Positioning System or most commonly know as a GPS is a technology originally developed at the height of the cold war in the 1960s and it was designed for military intelligence applications and missile target accuracy. This technology is managed by the United States and it uses more than 24 GPS satellites that transmit signals allowing GPS devices or receivers a precise location, directions and sometimes speed of travel of an individual or vehicle. With the exponential growth of mobile technology and smart phones in our society it was expected that regular cellphones quickly developed in a complete GPS-enabled device. Our country truly has become a connected society and with this emerging knowledge and flow of information
The hospital needs to find a way to improve the tracking of Voice Over IP (VOIP) calls within the hospital and also wants to have a program to improve response time of medical personnel by using the GPS to locate the closes vehicle to the emergency. A design will need to be made of the Requires and Provides interfaces of two components that might be used in the VOIP system. A design of the interface is needed for two components that may be used in the vehicle discovery component to find the nearest vehicle to the incident with the Requires and Provides interfaces.
The GPS is sensing knowledge to help with navigation with the car and destinations. Autonomous cars are not yet available on a large scale of the world such as out of the United States of America, but have been programmed and developed to travel along the roads of America. Most autonomous cars are programmed only for American roads, we have made a big step towards the future with autonomous cars, with them being only available mainly in America, they are a luxury. They are making their way to larger scale autopilot features, and will eventually be available on a larger scale.(Ali
The IOT creates an opportunity to measure or monitor a large number of different end systems by collecting and analyzing the data. The perception layer includes a group of Internet-enabled devices that are able to perceive, detect objects, gather information, and exchange information with other devices through the Internet communication networks. Radio Frequency Identification Devices (RFID), cameras, sensors, Global Positioning Systems (GPS) are some examples of perception layer devices. Forwarding data from the perception layer to the application layer under the constraints of devices’ capabilities, network limitations and the applications’ constraints is the task of the network layer.
There was a time a person would use a roadmap to get from one location to another. Some also would stop and ask for directions. Today, you seldom see paper maps and people stopping at a local gas station for directions. Many vehicles come with a navigation system that provides a real-time map of the vehicle’s current location as well as systematic directions to requested destination.
Traffic surveys are the means of obtaining information about traffic. This is a systematic way of collecting data to be used for various traffic engineering purposes.
The database application design can be improved in a number of ways as described below:
We all use vehicles for transportation. People usually go to their desired destination either by driving their own cars or traveling in public transportation. Actually, it might be tough to choose that which one is the best selection for people to travel. Many people choose one of them according to their comfort while traveling and both of them have advantages and disadvantages in different conditions. Public transportation and driving own car both shares differences and similarities in many aspects, such as facility, cost, and comfort as well as traffic jam and accident occurrence.
Most of cities that people live are sequentially growing, daily routine of many people are also adapted for surrounding in the present. A lot of people have to spend most of their time with travelling though long distances to get from one place to another for connecting their businesses or other purposes by transportation. Most people use public transportation such as BTS and MRT to go each places while many people are using their own cars to travel. Thereby, both transportations have the same destination that is taking and moving people. People can choose vehicles from alter reasons depend on how people are responded to their needs by public transportation and private car that are different in convenience of travelling, expenditure of money and security of travel.
The research is able giving a chance to let us conduct a research in our university and addressing the issues might be involved. There are making our research can get the suggestion or opinion among UUM students towards the rail transportation. The factor that influenced the social behavior can be identified while conduct the research. We believe that the research we conducted can be explored more suggestion on solutions to improve the rail transport services and it will be mentioned in conclusion part.
It properly prices the roads in which supply will equal the demand. In addition, it generates revenue for the local government, which can mitigate the costs in maintaining the roads and infrastructure. References Arnott, Richard, Tilmann Rave and Ronnie Schob, Alleviating Urban Traffic Congestion, The MIT Press, 2005. O’Sullivan, Arthur, Urban Economics, McGraw-Hill/Irwin, 2007.