www.iasir.net Traffic Prediction through Live GPS Data

Abstract: Traffic clogging has become a nuisance in almost every city these days. In these situations, it would be a boon for the drivers if there is a facility or an application that predicts the traffic in a particular location or a city. This paper proposes an active traffic prediction system that uses live GPS data collected from mobile phones. The co-ordinates are stored in a database and the collected data is sent to a server which uses Great Circle Algorithm to compute the distance between two GPS co-ordinates. The distance covered by a user in three minutes is found and the traffic can thereby be predicted