Intelligent Transport System

Problem Statement

In Kenyan roads accidents are at alarming rate since death rate stands at 3000 per year which arises due to human error. This brings the need to reduce the problem and provide reliable information on the condition of our Kenyan roads and parameters on the vehicle more so other factors such as environmental that would play a major factor in reducing accidents and save time and life.

Mobility and transportation is the engine that enhances economic growth of a country. This comes as a result of things like congestion, accessibility and road safety problems. Due to the increase in population and mobility incremental of a country, where it’s more common in the third world countries, demand for infrastructure is very high due to financial constraints and also human resource constraints.

Increasing in population gives rise to congestions around the country hence limiting urban mobility and contributing to unsustainable environmental, economic, and social conditions that are inexistence. The idea of intelligent transportation systems (ITS) which involve application of computing and electronics approach in technology offers better option for eliminating the effects of traffic congestion which directly include impacts on road efficiency, the environment, safety, and cost.

Justification

Intelligent Transport System (ITS) involves a broad range of wireless and wired communications and electronics technologies which among the most promising methods in dealing with the traffic congestion problems in the transport sector. Since some key information is readily obtained using the existing traffic information, for analysis and management of traffic information remains some of the key issues and deeper information are difficult to discover. This deeper level information usually has very huge volumes of data and our inability to capture important information techniques used universally. The intelligent transport system (ITS) would help in meeting the challenges by providing motorists in real time effective, reliable and meaningful knowledge hence traffic congestions, dangerous environments and safety can be solved through modern innovative and technological ways and techniques using information technology, and telecommunication systems hand in hand with roads and traffic management techniques. When applied in the transport infrastructure system and in the vehicles, it can ease in monitoring and traffic flow management; hence provide alternative routes to drivers as a result reduce congestions on our roads and increasing productivity by saving time and money and also safe life as well. Intelligent transport system provides skilled information tools for transport professionals where they can collect, analyze and archive the data and through the data response time to incidences, adverse weather conditions can be handled with ease.