Developing a Smart IoT based Traffic Management System

Authors

  • يوسف وجيه صباح | Yousef W. Sabbah Al-Quds Open University
  • محمد شفيق أبو قرع | Mohammad Shafeeq Abu Qare’ Al Bader Technologies Co.
  • نزار سليم بركات | Nizar Salim Barakat Ministry of Transportation
  • جميل شحادة سيد | Jameel Shhadi Sayed General Administration of Palestinian Police
  • محمد فواز نجوان سالمية | Mohammad Fawaz Najwan Salmiyeh BCI (Bnet) Co.
  • يوسف داود سلامة | Yousef Dawood Salameh The National Bank
  • صلاح رياض بدوان | Salah Rayyad Baddwan Ahbab Rahman Model School
  • أحمد محمود النجار | Ahmad Mhmouad Al-Najjar Technology Investment Co.
  • ايهاب صلاح حمدان | Ihab Salah Hamdan Ministry of Higher Education

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.33977/2106-000-004-007

Keywords:

Fines, IoT, Issuing e-Tickets, Smart City, Running a Red Light, Over-speeding, Track and Detect Offenses, Traffic Accident, Traffic Management System, Traffic Offense

Abstract

This research paper emerged from the urgent need to address traffic offenses and the accompanying accidents and reduce traffic congestion by developing a smart traffic management system (STMS). The proposed system serves the competent authorities (e.g., the traffic department and the traffic police) in traffic control to reduce traffic offenses and accidents and preserve properties and lives. As such, the system will target drivers, regardless of the type of vehicle they drive. The system handles three major offenses: Running a red light, over-speeding, and parking in a prohibited space.

The system consists of two main parts, a hardware that consists of controllers and sensors to track offenses as soon as they occur and a web application that records these offenses. It comprises the hardware and software components to issue e-tickets to be sent to offenders in short messages specifying the time, type, and fine of each offense ticket to prevent them from recommitting offenses. It also provides a congestion control model at traffic signals on road junctions. In the system analysis phase, data collection was conducted using two instruments, a questionnaire as a quantitative instrument, which was analyzed using the statistical package for the social sciences (SPSS), and personal interviews as a qualitative instrument, which was analyzed through thematic coding and content analysis to classify themes and subthemes. In the development phase, a prototype was developed and tested for running the red light offenses, and the results were generalized to the other types of offenses because they are built on the same basis.

The obstacles and challenges were identified, and recommendations were set on the ways to overcome these offenses by involving the targeted drivers and the community in the development process to raise awareness in this regard. In addition, the proposed system can serve the community by providing a transparent system, and at the same time, increasing the government income and reducing the risk of traffic accidents resulting from offenses.

Author Biography

يوسف وجيه صباح | Yousef W. Sabbah, Al-Quds Open University

Yousef Sabbah is the Secretary of the Board of Trustees at Al-Quds Open University (QOU). He is an assistant professor of ICT and specialized in online examination security. He earned his PhD in ICT at CU, Egypt, 2012. Before that, he earned M.Sc. in Computing at BZU, Palestine, 2005. In 1997, he earned his B.Sc. in Computer Engineering at Baghdad University, Iraq.

He has an excellent experience in Digital Transformation in different fields. Recently, he developed the National Transformation Policy of Palestine for the Palestinian MITT assigned by the ESCWA, and approved by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU). Formerly, he was the President’s Assistant for Quality and Planning at QOU. Moreover, he is a reviewer for Quality Improvement Fund (QIF) projects funded by the World Bank.

He was a project coordinator or team member of the several Erasmus+ projects including Capacity Building (CB) and International Credit Mobility (ICM). In addition, he was the lead researcher and project manager of the e-learning intervention action-research project for Palestinian primary and secondary schools funded by the Belgian Cooperation Agency (BTC) for the Palestinian MoEHE.

Dr. Sabbah’s research interest includes, but not limited to, ICT, e-learning and online examination security. He is a member of several foundations, communities and research institutes and groups.

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2021-04-05

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Yousef W. Sabbah ي. و. ص. |, Mohammad Shafeeq Abu Qare’ م. ش. أ. ق. |, Nizar Salim Barakat ن. س. ب. |, Jameel Shhadi Sayed ج. ش. س. |, Mohammad Fawaz Najwan Salmiyeh م. ف. ن. س. |, Yousef Dawood Salameh ي. د. س. |, Salah Rayyad Baddwan ص. ر. ب. |, Ahmad Mhmouad Al-Najjar أ. م. ا. |, & Ihab Salah Hamdan ا. ص. ح. |. (2021). Developing a Smart IoT based Traffic Management System. Palestinian Journal of Technology and Applied Sciences (PJTAS), (4). https://doi.org/10.33977/2106-000-004-007

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