Development of rewarding system for solving traffic congestion in Saudi Arabia

Abstract

Traffic congestion impacts economics, health, and productivity. Traffic congestion is increasing in the urban areas and negatively impacts people in these areas due to air pollution, accidents, delays in travel time, and more. In Saudi Arabia, more than 500,000 people have died or been injured because of traffic. To improve this problem, we developed a rewarding system that encourages people to drive during off-peak hours. In addition, the system provides recommendations for a preferred departure time in order to avoid traffic congestion. Recommended departure time is based on historical data. This system will be used to create dataset of drivers and traffic information in order to build an intelligent recommendation system.