A Traffic Guidance System | Nikolaj Birch, Christian Thomsen
| | Abstract | Traffic guidance is a major problem in the modern society. Traffic should be guided through city centers and other areas without queues forming on the roads. In this project a traffic guidance system is developed that gathers traffic data from the Android-based smartphones of car drivers, and use this to direct them away from heavily congested roads. It achieves this, by combining a more conventional GPS-based navigation app with positional feedback from the smartphone. The system consists of a internet based server, which handles the pathfinding and traffic control, using the A* algorithm and map data from OpenStreetMap, and an android app that guides the user and provide the feedback to the server. Also, a dummy client simulator is developed as well as a visualization tool, that simplifies testing and demonstrates the system functionality. We succeeded in developing a system that can guide car drivers along the fastest routes and re-route if necessary when traffic jams are forming. | | Type | Bachelor of Engineering thesis [Academic thesis] | | Year | 2012 | | Publisher | Technical University of Denmark, DTU Informatics, E-mail: reception@imm.dtu.dk | | Address | Asmussens Alle, Building 305, DK-2800 Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark | | Series | IMM-B.Eng.-2010-80 | | Note | Supervised by Associate Professor Christian Probst, probst@imm.dtu.dk, DTU Informatics | | Electronic version(s) | [pdf] | | Publication link | http://www.imm.dtu.dk/English.aspx | | BibTeX data | [bibtex] | | IMM Group(s) | Computer Science & Engineering |
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