Abstract:
Traffic congestion is one of the major problems which almost all people face in their
day-to-day life. Resources such as time, fuel and money are wasted because of this
problem. Both government and non-government parties have taken many actions to
reduce this problem but it remains as it was. There are some solutions which provide
non-live traffic alerts through mobile phones such as Dialog SatNav, Mobitel T-Navi.
Alternative Traffic Alert (ANT) system provides real time traffic alerts to road
travellers, giving them the best condition, cost beneficial and optimal alternative route
to use at a time of a traffic jam. ANT Solution is implemented with the use of Global
Positioning System (GPS) based vehicle tracking, vehicle motion based traffic condition
evaluation, mobile and web technologies. This ANT approach supports any mobile
phone while other available systems only limited to SMART phones. In addition ANT
also performs cost, distance and velocity calculations before determining the best and
optimal alternative route.
