Mobile Application As A Tool For Urban Traffic Data Collection And Generation To Advanced Traveler Information Systems Using Wi-fi Networks Available In Urban Centers

This paper presents an Advanced Traveler Information System (ATIS) developed on Android platform, which is open source and free. The developed application has as its main objective the free use of a Vehicle-to- Infrastructure (V2I) communication through the wireless network access points available in urban centers. In addition to providing the necessary information for an Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) to a central server, the application also receives the traffic data close to the vehicle. Once obtained this traffic information, the application displays them to the driver in a clear and efficient way, allowing the user to make decisions about his route in real time. The application was tested in a real environment and the results are presented in the article. In conclusion we present the benefits of this application. © 2012 IEEE.288292 IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society (ITSS)Roess, R.P., Prassas, E.E., MacShane, W.E., (2010) Traffic Enginnering, , 4th ed., Prentice HallNi, D., Determining Traffic-flow characteristics by definition for application in ITS (2007) IEEE Trans. Intelligent Transportation Systems, 8, pp. 181-187. , JuneMiller, J., Vehicle-to-Vehicle-to-Infrastructure (V2V2I) Intelligent Transportation System Architecture Conf. Rec. 2008 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium, pp. 715-720Kumar, P., Singh, V., Reddy, D., Advanced Traveler Information System for Hyderabad City (2005) IEEE Trans. Intelligent Transportation Systems, 6, pp. 26-37. , MarchEamsomboon, P., Keeratiwintakorn, P., Mitrpant, C., The performance of Wi-Fi and Zigbee networks for inter-vehicle communication in Bangkok metropolitan area Conf. Rec.2008 Int. Conf. ITS Telecommunications, pp. 408-411(2011) Open Handset Alliance, , http://www.openhandsetalliance.com, December 01. Android [Online]. Available(2012) Google Traffic [Online], , http://support.google.com/maps/bin/answer.py?topic=1687356&ctx= topic&answer=61455, April 05. AvailableDrake, J.D., Worsley, J.C., (2002) Practical PostgreSQL, , 1st ed., O'Reilly MediaLecheta, R.R., (2010) Google Android, , 2nd ed., Ed. São Paulo: NovatecJunyan, L., Shiguo, X., Yijie, L., Application research of embedded database SQLite 2009 Int. Forum on Information Technology and Applications, pp. 539-54