DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF A REAL-TIME TRAFFIC SENSOR

📄 Project Abstract

In today's traffic system there is an estimate of one billion cars on the roads which leave traffic officials grappling with congestion and face challenges from affordability constraints, increasing emissions and drivers' growing needs. In a nation like United States alone, it has been recorded that the total cost of congestion for the 85 U.S. urban areas is estimated to be 65 billion dollars per year, from 3.5 billion hours of delay and 5.7 billion gallons of excess fuel consumption (Cheung and Varaiya, 2007). Bringing it down to our motherland Nigeria, in a research conducted ROM Transportation Engineering between the years 2007 and 2009 it was discovered that the costs of congestion in Lagos were estimated to be $1billion (about N160 billion) yearly. (Olorunpomi, 2010). These conclusions were reached based on the official population figure of 17 million for Lagos state. The research concluded further that Lagosians collectively lose 3 billion hours to traffic congestions yearly, and...