The Development of Mobile and Server Application for Traffic Data Collection Based on Location-Based Services (LBS)

Abstract

Traffic data includes various data such as the number of vehicles, vehicle velocity, or travel time that might lead to meaningful information for the traffic engineers. This research aims to collect the traffic data based on the Location Based Services (LBS) by utilizing the Global Positioning System (GPS) in a smartphone. The drivers bring the smartphone and collecting the traffic data while driving the vehicle. It is done in real-time by running the mobile application in background service. The data includes the date, timestamp, latitude, longitude, device ID, and vehicle velocity. These data are temporarily stored in the internal smartphone database, then synchronized to the database in the server application. According to the result, the large number of online taxi drivers and a longer time to collect the data should be considered to cover a wide area.