Tool for Representing Traffic Congestion Mapping

Abstract

Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) are advanced applications which, without embodying intelligence as such, aim to provide innovative services relating to different modes of transport and traffic management and enable various users to be better informed and make safer, more coordinated, and 'smarter' use of transport networks. The project deals with “Traffic Congestion Mapping” which involves an approach to build efficient traffic management systems which would further help in reducing traffic problems and encourage safer transportation. The framework used is a free, open-source software that provides a common and extendible understanding for the analysis and visualization of data that can be represented as a graph or network. Coding has been done on JAVA Platform and makes use of Graph Stream which is a Java Application Programming Interface (API) and includes libraries to support simulation of graphing algorithms. GraphStream is a graph handling Java library that focuses on the dynamics aspects of graphs. Its main focus is on the modeling of dynamic interaction networks of various sizes. The goal of the library is to provide a way to represent graphs and work on it.