Smart Traffic System: the Shortest Path to Reach the Location of Traffic Accidents

Abstract

Traffic accidents can affect sufferers in several ways, from light physical wounds to mortality. Even, in some areas, an accident could also cause significant material goods cost. Instantaneous rescue is critical because the harshness of those undesirable properties extremely be determined by how fast police or officer of other related institutions know, react and reach the location of the accident. In this study, a system is built to detect, find location and identify the shortest path to reach the location of an accident. There are three main parts of the system, including an accelerometer, GPS receiver and a GPRS module which are connected to a microcontroller, a program in a web srver implementing K-Nearest Neighbor to search for the shortest path from a police station to the location of accidents, and a program installed in the police stations to show the shortest path in a form of a map. By implementing this system, response time to a traffic accident is potentially reduced and the fatality of injuries is decreased.