Poster: Improving Road Safety Through Smart-Sensing

Abstract

Road accidents cause an estimated 1.3 million fatalities each year worldwide. We believe that mobile devices can play a positive role by detecting various driving related events like red light cutting, rash driving and many more. We focus on a specific problem that is responsible for many accidents in India: the stopping behaviour of buses especially in the vicinity of bus stops. We propose a smartphone-based system that specifically seeks to detect and report the following scenarios. 1. Has the bus come to a complete stop(instead of a rolling stop)? 2. Has the bus stopped in the left lane? 3. Has the bus stopped exactly at the bus stop? thus prevent from derailment of trains