Android Based Traffic Updates: P. Arun, R. Lokeshvarma, P. Krishnakumar, S. Sivakumar
Android Based Traffic Updates: P. Arun, R. Lokeshvarma, P. Krishnakumar, S. Sivakumar
© 2015 IJSRSET | Volume 1 | Issue 1 | Print ISSN : 2395-1990 | Online ISSN : 2394-4099
Themed Section: Engineering and Technology
ANDROID BASED TRAFFIC UPDATES
P. Arun*1, R. Lokeshvarma2, P. Krishnakumar3, S. Sivakumar4
Dhanalakshmi College of Engineering, Chennai, Tamilnadu, India
ABSTRACT
Road traffic congestions are one of the major problems in highly populated cities. In the recent years, GPS based
solutions have become popular since people are able to see the traffic flow on streets instantaneously. However such
systems are lack of intelligent reasoning regarding the traffic problem. In this system people can get intimation
about traffic updates and can see incidents or roadblocks in road using gmap and the admin traffic police department
can post their comment and users can see it.
Keywords
Traffic Congestion
I. INTRODUCTION receive GPS signals to locate vehicles, and the other
is the system which uses
Social traffic application using android is an
application used to detect the status of the traffic in satellites that monitor the traffic on certain region
the particular area, these status are posted by the which shows speed ranges at different positions on
current user bypassed already as the same rider can road, such as red line for congestion, yellow line for
get the status of another area which was bypassed slow movement of vehicle and green line for fast
by another user hence it becomes a large chain. movement. But using satellites and sensors will cost
These posts have various statuses like accident, higher and to share a traffic update it is very
road block and traffic jam. The highlight of this difficult. In order to avoid that an android
application is that the web server sync application can be used to share updates. Since 81%
automatically for an every hour, there is another of the people use android smartphones it is easy to
highlight that the post can be reverted as true or distribute. This application will use in build GPS in
false by the users to avoid the fake post. the smartphone.
Government try to strengthen their transport II. METHODS AND MATERIAL
infrastructure and increase road capacity to
minimize the traffic congestion problem. However, 2.1 ANDROID BASED TRAFFIC UPDATES
the problem is growing faster than the transport Our android based system takes advantage of the
infrastructure strengthened by the governments. In web service technologies in its implementation. It
order to avoid that situation an android based web has a friendly user interface to view updates on
services can be developed that share traffic updates.maps and includes functionalities that are
developed to mitigate time spent in the traffic. Our
RELATED APPLICATIONS proposed system uses the Google API 1.3 for
There has been existing systems, which can give marking the locations on the map. At first, the
updates on traffic updates, First is the application system requires user registration and then login
which uses sensors installed on vehicles which procedures. Then, users are able to enter traffic
related incidents, follow traffic incidents instantly
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and post messages and suggestions for the existing The comments and the details about the roadblock
incidents. After the user logins, the system or the traffic can be posted by the admin and the
forwards him/her to the main page as shown in status of the incident can be changed by the admin.
Figure 1. In the main page existing road works are
listed which are retrieved from Turkish Directorate 2.2 IMPLEMENTATION ON ANDROID
of Highways. On the right hand side there is a field
indicating the weather status in the local area and The System is implemented using Android API 1.5
this is also retrieved from the Google Weather that supports from froyo version as the base
service. version. The application is build in eclipse mars
which comes with Android SDK (ADT
A. User Registration Bundle).The minimum requirement to run android
sdk is java JDK 7 or JDK 8.The data storage is
The module is designed and developed for user
done on the server with the help of XAMPP server
registration and login. The register in this app and
tool,which is the product of apache tomcat.
can view the updates on the map and can know in
advance the roadblocks and traffic in that area. The
At first user login is made and user can get update
application also consist the admin login in which
through intimations and can view incidents in the
traffic department can use this to post the status of
map which uses google API 1.3.The vehicles
the traffic.
locations are collected through HTTP request with
the help of GPS. f there is no change in the location.
Then that location details (i.e)latitude and longitude
will be sent to the server and will be updated in the
map. For example if vehicles stand on the road for
long time ,say for 20 minutes then that area’s
location is obtained as latitude=13.465 N and
longitude =79.234 E. And then all users can view
Figure 1: Login Module the updates or get intimations if their data
B. Displaying Incidents connection is ON.
The incidents or traffic details are updated in the
The status updates can only be given by the admin
map based on the vehicle location if the vehicles are
(Traffic police department).And can clear incident
at the same location for some minutes then that
marks on the map if the traffic is clear.
location will be marked as congested with red circle
or line. The user can set the home location so that
the application will ignore. The application will be
started only when there is a change in location for a
continuous amount of time (i.e) when the vehicle is
moving.
Figure 3: Architecture Diagram
Figure 2: User Interface
C. Status Update By The Admin
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Figure 6: Traffic Reports in Chennai City By Traffic Police Department:
Figure 4: Architectural Diagram Pictorial Representation
PROCESS IN THE APPLICATION
III. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
Our application uses GPS location as the main
In order to evaluate our solution in terms of user feature to extract location details.The following
code explains how to get GPS location details.
acceptance, a survey was conducted among the
potential users who have smart phones. The public class GpsBasicsAndroidDemo extends
Activity implements LocationListener
questionnaire used in the survey consists of two {
main parts. The first part of the survey contains the private LocationManager locManager; @Override
protected void
questions about demographic information of the onCreate(BundlesavedInstanceState)
{
participants (including age, gender, and super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
occupation), daily time spent on the traffic, the setContentView(R.layout.activity_gps_basics_
android_example);
tools they used for traffic and their satisfaction with locManager = (LocationManager)
the general traffic at their residence. getSystemService(Context.LOCATION_SERVICE);
{#link LocationListener} whose
onLocationChanged(Location)
182 participants attended the evaluation study and locManager.requestLocationUpdates(
LocationManager.GPS_PROVIDER,3000,
completed the survey. Most of the participants 10, this);
(64.28%) were males and about one third (35.72%) }
@Override
were females. The age distribution was from 22 to
public void onLocationChanged(Location loc)
50 years old with an average of 28.84 and a {
standard deviation of 4.52. More than 90% of String strng = "Latitude:
"+loc.getLatitude()+"
respondents were below 35 years of age. Longitude: "+loc.getLongitude();
Toast.makeText(getBaseContext(), strng,
Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
}
@Override
public void onProviderDisabled(String
provider) {
Toast.makeText(getBaseContext(), "Gps turned
off ", Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
}
@Override
public void onProviderEnabled(String provider)
{
Toast.makeText(getBaseContext(), "Gps turned
Figure 5: Smartphone Users on ", Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
}
@Override
public void onStatusChanged(String provider,
int status, Bundle extras)
{
}
}
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and web-service technology in order to overcome
the traffic problem.
This Android Application helps user to get real time
updates about traffic in their nearest location. This
Application can be enchanced by monitoring
vehicle speed and can get real time updates more
effectively and with high efficiency.
V. REFERENCES
Figure 7: View Module of Application
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Figure 8: Map View of Application
IV. CONCLUSION
Urbanization and the number of vehicles are rapidly
increasing in the largest cities and as a result of this,
traffic congestion problems are still one of the most
significant problems. Transportation infrastructure
is mostly not enough to keep pace with this growth.
In this study, a social traffic network system is
implemented by integrating the social networking
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