Muhammad Hirzi Aji Pramono Dhiatra (2201803351)

Essay of Technology used in Transportation Management

Over the past decades, transportation has been very useful in human needs where it can
help resources to arrive faster or even get people get to their destination with ease. With the growth
of transportation, the management of transportation is very much needed to control the flow of
traffics. Nowadays traffic problems can be seen everywhere in the city, where the problem of
traffic management is the increase of traffic. One of the major problems in the traffic problem is a
traffic congestion, the cause of this problem is the increasing of personalized vehicle distributed
in the city. The other problem in transportation management are speeding up of vehicles, big
personal cars with low occupancy rate, travel delay times, loss of human life because of crash, and
increased pollution in the city. To find solution to these problems are very hard using human
resources as the main key to find the solution, because it will need time and many people to watch
over the traffic on the road. But now there is a need where we can manage all the traffic concerns
in smart way and way more efficient than using human resources to address all the problem, it is
by using intelligent transportation system (ITS) it is the latest development that is being
implemented to be used for arterial and sub arterial roads in cities across the world. Smart road is
defined as where in a normal road but it is equipped with a variety of sensors and many electronic
gadgets to help the transportation engineer to detect the relevant problem and will find the solution
with ease with an intention to improve the efficiency of operational in the system itself.
For decades, the traffic on roads especially on Muscat roads is consistently increasing every
year, with the annual growth rate of 8,8 percent. The massive increasing traffic is very much
resulted to frequent traffic delay and congestion. Even though the accident rate is declaiming in
last decade the occurrence of number of accidents is a very serious concern to the Royal Oman
Police (ROP) and the transport ministry. This is where the ITS takes its place to help find the
solution of the problem, where a Smart Road is one of the solution to address the traffic and
congestion problem in the area, it also capable of to find the cost effective solutions. The
implementation of using smart road is very useful in public where it can reduce traffic jams/traffic
congestion on the road which could reduce the traffic delay, reduce the accident that would happen,
control over the speeding of each vehicles that passes on the road, and traffic engineering
management. And the other benefits could be reducing pollution and reducing wastage in time and
fuel from the vehicles. With this it is more likely to improve the economy of the nation and could
make National development.
Real world data of various entities is captured through various gadgets like sensor, meters,
cameras, appliances devices and data acquisition systems. The physical data is inter-connected
through networks to the virtual world of smart city systems. The data obtained from the real-world
entities is structurally organized and integrated and distributed to various organizations. For the
integration of the collected from different entities to the virtual city, different search engines will
be used. The structured information will be retrieved at the user end through various search
engines, queries and other IT tools for making intelligent decisions. The Instrumented Planet study
showed that data on urban systems is captured consistently through Internet of things. The
conventional traffic monitoring using image process technology is having many limitations and is
affected by weather conditions. At times due to inclement weather vehicle image not captured.
Whereas an e-plate based on radio frequency identification (RFID) provides a better opportunity
for intelligent traffic monitoring for identifying and tracking the vehicle. RFID can be used as a
transponder in license plate equipped with a RFID tag and sensors. This knowledge of information
from every vehicle helps in estimating the number of vehicles on the road, average speed of the
vehicles and the density of the vehicles on the road. The data from each vehicle is gathered or
collected by means of a fixed or mobile RFID reader at each monitoring. Finally the information
is sent to the central server for collecting, processing and storing.
In conclusion this technology used for public road is pretty much helpful to solve the main
problems in traffic with respect to safety and the level of service are evaluated. The role of Smart
Road technologies as an effective way of finding the cost effective solutions to the traffic problems
is very useful.
REFERENCES
Zamzam, S., Abdullah, A., Al, Mahairzi, and N., Srinivasa, Reddy., 2017. Smart Road
Technology for Traffic Management and ITS Infrastructure Assessment: A Case Study of
Muscat Express Highway. [online]:
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Smart%20Road%20Technology%20for%20Traffic%20Management.pdf