Traffic congestion detection by use of satellites view

Traffic congestion in major cities is very common problem. Every modern city wants to handle this problem. Being stuck in traffic jam wastes so much time and money of citizens. Traffic congestion can be minimized by timely inform about its happening to the concerned department and also to incoming traffic. For this we proposed an approach in which we use satellites to detect cities traffic congestion on real time. This approach not only informs about congestion but also provides a broader view of cities traffic. Plenty of satellites are available around earth. High resolution video is taken from a specific point in space with satellites cameras. This video is further processed by using images processing techniques, and congestion is detected in real time. In result section we proved this idea successfully.

1. Introduction

Flow of traffic should be optimal enough that it should fully utilize its roads and there should be minimum congestion on roads, this is a pressing requirement of every modern city in traffic monitoring. In reality there is much congestion on roads, according to TomTom [1] traffic index every person have to spend 59% more time on roads because of traffic congestion. This cost hedge on city's economy and increases pollution as well. Sometime traffic congestion becomes so complex that it needs days to resolve it. Congestion becomes complex when there is lack of information about flow of traffic and delay in information passed to traffic control department. If this time delay is become shorter and there is a broader view about flow of traffic then it can be minimized by utilizing other suitable routes.