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Abstract | ||
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According to UN-HABITAT, the city of Nairobi loses half a million USD daily due to congestion on roads designed for a city 10 times smaller. To address the traffic congestion problem in Nairobi, we develop a platform called Traffic 411 that provides drivers with real-time traffic and routing information. Traffic 411 incorporates locally relevant context (such as references to landmarks) to predict congestion and create traffic awareness. Our work extends a novel approach called Frugal Innovation developed at the IBM Tokyo Research Lab (TRL), where Web cameras covering only 3.5% of the roads in Nairobi are used to estimate traffic conditions. We deployed the Traffic 411 platform in Nairobi and our initial evaluation indicates that Traffic 411 enhances the driving experience and can be deployed in similar cities. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
|---|---|---|
2014 | 10.1145/2554850.2555148 | SAC |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
traffic congestion,developing countries,mobile application,road-traffic estimation,general,smarter planet | Traffic optimization,Frugal innovation,Computer security,Computer science,Floating car data,Transport engineering,Vehicle Information and Communication System,Traffic congestion reconstruction with Kerner's three-phase theory,Traffic engineering,Network traffic control,Traffic congestion | Conference |
Citations | PageRank | References |
0 | 0.34 | 0 |
Authors | ||
6 | ||
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Andrew Kinai | 1 | 13 | 4.36 |
| Reginald E. Bryant | 2 | 13 | 3.72 |
| Aisha Walcott-Bryant | 3 | 0 | 0.34 |
| Eric Mibuari | 4 | 7 | 2.13 |
| Komminist Weldemariam | 5 | 154 | 27.27 |
| Osamuyimen Stewart | 6 | 54 | 7.53 |