New Software Provides Accurate Traffic Data in Real-Time
LONDON: Researchers have developed new software that provides real time data on traffic and can help drivers choose the fastest route to their destinations.
Researchers at the University of Granada in Spain designed the software that can provide information on traffic flow between cities to individual users through mobile phone alerts or web-based devices.
It is a highly reliable, low-cost method, easy and quick to install, which uses bluetooth devices, researchers said.
These devices collect real-time data on road traffic which is then sent to a central server.
This information is then processed using complex data mining algorithms, evolutionary computing and neuronal networks, with the aim of providing users with information and predictions on the density and flow of traffic on any given route.
Current systems in use for the collection of data and the generation of information on the state of road traffic lack the capacity to identify the vehicles they detect and they are also costly, which makes them too expensive for use in secondary roads.
This restricts their use to main roads that connect large urban centres.
The SIPEsCa project (Spanish for Low Cost Autonomous Information and Prediction System for Real Time Data on the State of Roads using Distributed Devices) has been developed by the GeNeura University of Granada research group and the company Ciudad 2020.
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