Toward a Global WSN-Based System to Manage Road Traffic

The traffic network and the quality of road transportation play an increasingly vital role in every economy's growth around the world and are part of the lifeblood of countries' trade and communications. With the continued growth in number of vehicles, it can be clearly seen that the existing road traffic management systems have reached their limits and can't cope with the daily challenges in a efficient way through the road jamming, remarkable increase in the number of accidents and traffic-related pollution. Seen in this perspective, this paper proposes a global system based on wireless sensor networks for managing road traffic networks of different scales; it therefore presents a functional and deployment architecture of the system. The paper presents also a simple use case of the proposed system in order to explain how to monitor the traffic flow. At the end, a real world implementation of some of the components, namely visualization and Traffic Modelling and Analytics that model the traffic flow dynamics evolution were provided.