rTraffic - a realtime web application for traffic status update in the streets of Bangladesh

Abstract

As median income rises in Bangladesh, so too does the number of people who own cars. Bangladesh as a nation does not have the resources to maintain the infrastructure for this steadily increasing number of cars hitting the streets. The result is that key intersections are frequently gridlocked causing horrendous traffic jams. This paper introduces rTraffic - a smartphone based web application that aims at making this issue a little more bearable by combining a crowd-sourced data acquisition model and real-time notifications system that suggests users on which routes to take and which routes to avoid. The paper will also discuss about the basic methodology, low-level implementation details and scaling factor considerations for real world deployment and performance benchmarks.