Topic > Urban transport: traffic and transport planning

PURPOSE AND OBJECTIVES The aim of the project is to design and develop a new web based application capable of dynamically recommending the best route and estimating travel time for urban transport. The objectives of the project are as follows: 1) Use real-time data generated and captured by GPS installed in MTC buses on selected routes in the city. 2) Analyze this data and make inferences about the traffic scenario along these routes.3) Efficient data structures and parallel implementation of algorithms to integrate into the existing design to improve response times.4) Build a web-based application capable of answer questions about the route and time.5) Extend the application also on a mobile platform6) Study the possibility of integrating machine learning strategies for further improvementsTHE SOLUTION CHOSEN:To recommend the best route at a given moment and estimate the travel time for an indicated route the basic information needed is the current speed of the traffic flow on the considered roads. This information can be acquired1) using infrastructures placed on the roadside2) using infrastructures placed inside vehiclesSeveral approaches have been used to capture traffic flow using various types of devices placed along the roadside. Due to the many limitations of this approach, placing the infrastructure inside the vehicle proved to be a better solution. The “Internet of Vehicles”, a specific application of the emerging “Internet of Things” sector, will soon be the technological enabler that provides the data needed for such real-time traffic analyses. Currently GPS systems placed inside MTC buses on selected routes provide the...... half of the paper ......et, we can store the number of segments that contain the given point instead of outputting the segments that contain the point. This uses O(log n) query time, so it's optimal. This new idea definitely helps by providing the user with the shortest routes. This way you can choose the best route from the options displayed based on traffic information. This simple idea can be used not only to help users overcome this problem, but also to help the government in traffic and transportation planning based on the data provided by sensors. Likewise it can be extrapolated to include the start time and the system can predict the arrival time at the destination (in terms of current traffic) and predict the start time to reach the destination at a specified time. Or the system can also generate routes that fit within a user-assigned time frame to reach the chosen destination.