Traffic Congestion Monitoring

Using Smartphone Data

Wong Guan Xiang (Daniel)
  Traffic - Vehicles moving on a public
highway (Oxford Dictionaries)
 Congestion- number of vehicles using a
Traffic roadway exceeds the ability of the
roadway to carry the load at generally
Congestion acceptable service levels. (Rothenberg,
1985)
 Demand exceeds supply.
 Increased
Traffic Flow

Limited
System
Traffic Capacity

Congestion
Traffic
congestion
  Monitor - The periodic tracking of any
activity’s progress by systematically
gathering and analyzing data and information
 Types of Monitoring
 Process Monitoring (Real Time Monitoring)
 Progress Tracking
Monitoring  Progress Validation
 Performance Monitoring
 Evaluate - Information used to understand the
ways in which the project or programme
developed and stimulated change.
  Smartphone- a mobile phone that
performs many of the functions of a
computer,
 Have a touchscreen interface, Internet access,
Smartphone and an operating system capable of running
Data downloaded apps.

 Data – set of values of qualitative or

quantitative variables. Unprocessed
information.