Conference Paper2017Cited by 16

Understanding Dhaka City Traffic Intensity and Traffic Expansion Using Gravity Model

Md Abu Sayed, Md Maksudur Rahman, Moinul Islam Zaber, Amin Ahsan Ali

20th International Conference On Computer and Information Technology (ICCIT 2017)

IEEE, pp. 1-6

  • Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure — Relevance: 64%
  • Sustainable Cities and Communities — Relevance: 92%
DOI: 10.1109/iccitechn.2017.8281770Open AccessURL

Abstract

Analysis of traffic pattern recognition and traffic congestion expansion in real time are one of the exciting and challenging tasks which help the government to build a robust and sustainable traffic management system specially in a densely populated city like Dhaka. In this paper, we analyze the traffic intensity for small areas which are also known as junction points or corridors. We describe Dhaka city traffic expansion from a congestion point by using gravity model. However, we process real-time traffic data of Dhaka city rather than depend on survey and interview. We exactly show that traffic expansion of Dhaka city exactly follows gravity model. Expansion of traffic from a congestion point spreads out rapidly to its neighbor and impact of congested point decreases as the distance increases from that congested point. This analysis will help the government making a planned urbanized Dhaka city in order to reduce traffic jam.

Keywords

  • gravity model
  • Traffic congestion
  • Traffic intensity
  • real-time traffic information
  • urban traffic management
  • Dhaka
  • transport corridors
  • traffic pattern recognition

CCDS Authors

Moinul I Zaber, PhD
Moinul I Zaber, PhD

Moinul I Zaber, PhD

  • Director, HCI Wing
  • Supervisor, DS Wing

  • Professor

    Department of Computer Science & Engineering

    University of Dhaka, Bangladesh

  • Visiting Academic

    Department of Computer Science and Technology

    University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

  • Research Fellow

    Institute of Development Studies (Sussex), United Kingdom

Published at

ICPR, HCII, JMIR

Prof. Amin Ahsan Ali, PhD
Amin Ahsan Ali, PhD

Prof. Amin Ahsan Ali, PhD

  • Director, AI/ML Wing
  • Supervisor, ComBio Wing

  • Professor

    Department of Computer Science and Engineering

    Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB)

Published at

ACL, CHI, UbiComp, ECCV, IJCAI, ECAI, WACV, IPSN, PAKDD, LREC, IJCNN, ICPR, ICIP, BEA, BLP, ICMLA, Scientific Reports, Scientific Data, Pattern Recognition, Information Sciences, Ad Hoc Networks, Drug and Alcohol Dependence, PLOS ONE

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