Road Traffic Congestion Essay

ANDROID BASED TRAFFIC UPDATES

P.Arun Information Technology(B.Tech) Dhanalakshmi College Of Engineering Chennai,Tamilnadu,India [e-mail]

P. Krishnakumar Information Technology(B.Tech) Dhanalakshmi College Of Engineering Chennai,Tamilnadu,India [e-mail]

R.Lokeshvarma Information Technology(B.Tech) Dhanalakshmi College Of Engineering Chennai,Tamilnadu,India [e-mail]

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
Social traffic application using android is an application used to detect the status of the traffic in the particular area, these status are posted by the current user bypassed already as the same rider can get the status of another area which was bypassed by another user hence it becomes a large chain. These posts have various statuses like accident, road block and traffic jam. The highlight of this application is that the web server sync automatically for an every hour, there is another highlight that the post can be reverted as true or false by the users to avoid the fake

V. USER ACCEPTANCE EVALUATION AND RESULTS In order to evaluate our solution in terms of user acceptance, a survey was conducted among the potential users who have smart phones. The questionnaire used in the survey consists of two main parts. The first part of the survey contains the questions about demographic information of the participants (including age, gender, and occupation), daily time spent on the traffic, the tools they used for traffic and their satisfaction with the general traffic at their residence. 182 participants attended the evaluation study and completed the survey. Most of the participants (64.28%) were males and about one third (35.72%) were females. The age distribution was from 22 to 50 years old with an average of 28.84 and a standard deviation of 4.52. More than 90% of respondents were below 35 years of age.

Traffic Reports in Chennai City By Traffic Police Department:

VI. PROCESS IN THE APPLICATION

Our application uses GPS location as the main feature to extract location details.The following code explains how to get GPS location