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Final year
Project
Design of Traffic Database Management System and Its
Application to a Metropolitan City
150 Thousand New Cars Every Year

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Problem statement
• 150 thousand New Vehicles Every Year
• Increasing Congestion

• General Practice: Widen the Roads.

Viable Solution?
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Problem statement
• Careful Traffic Planning  Increased Efficiency
• Traffic Planning:
– Traffic Data
• Challenges
– Data Acquisition
– Data Management
– Data Representation
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We Have A Solution!
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Our Solution
A Smart Traffic
Counter
Traffic
Database A Scalable
Management Traffic Database
System
(TDMS)
A Revolutionary Traffic
Visualization Engine
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Traffic counting

Tally Marks Video Tapping Electronic

Technique Counters
 FUNCTIONAL
& EASY 8
OUR
SOLUTI
ON
ELEC.
COUNT

LOW COST HIGH COST

VIDEO
TAPE

TALLY
MARKS
HAND
TALLY
COUNT NON-FUNCIONAL
& DIFFICULT
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Intersection Traffic
Counter
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Present Products 0

• Micro Tally
• Jamar Counter
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Micro Tally 1

Needs Output Two Vehicle

Setup Classifications

No On-Screen Physical
Display Buttons

USD 1500
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Jamar Counter 2

No On-Screen Physical
Output Buttons

Needs Output 14 Vehicle

Setup Classifications

USD 5000
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Intersection Traffic 3

Counter
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Our Product 4
Customized Touch Friendly
Intersection Buttons
Details

On Screen 16 Vehicle
Output Classifications

Custom
Custom
Vehicle
Interval Time
Buttons

Multiple
Output USD 150
Options
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LIVE Demonstration
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Traffic Data 6

• Data Needed for Traffic Analysis

– Geometric Data
– Classified Turn Counts
– Annual Average Daily Traffic
– Forecasting
– Passenger Capacity Units (PCUs)
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The Breakthrough We
Present!
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Traffic Database 8
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Features 9

Classified counts

Daily traffic volume-time

variation
Annual average daily
traffic
Traffic forecasting

Passenger CAR unit (pcu)

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LIVE Demonstration
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Case Study 1
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Traffic Simulation 2

• Simulation on Synchro 7
• Data Required
– Classified Vehicle Counts
– Geometry
– AADTs
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Recap 3

A Smart Traffic
Counter
Traffic
Database A Scalable
Management Traffic Database
System
(TDMS)
Traffic Simulation
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Significance of Traffic 4

Data
• End Users
– Traffic Engineers
– General Public
• Common Interest

WE HAVE DONE IT!

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Traffic Data Visualization 5

Engine
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Features 6

• Global Access
• Traffic Feeds
– Historical
– Live
• Level of Service
• Geometric Data
• Media
• Scalable and Dynamic
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Features 7

Global access

Traffic feeds  historical +

live
Level of service

Geometric data

Media

Scalable and dynamic

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LIVE Demonstration
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TDMS Flow Chart 9

Ground Traffic Android

START Movement Application

Data Data Database Traffic

Analysis Storage System Counts

Output
Operations End
on GIS
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Commercialization 0

• Product  Potential for Commercialization

• Business Plan
• Involvement with Technology Incubation
Center (TIC), NUST
• Google Play Store
– Product Price
– Add-on Features
– FREE Traffic Visualization Engine
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Recommendation 1

• Implementation through the Metropolitan

Traffic Departments
• Installation of Traffic Inductive Loops and
video counters
• Installation of VMS and its integration with
database
Project Timeline
May
Feb - June
Tweaking of
Concept
Database
System Defence
April July
Visualization Detailed
Engine Literature
Review
August
March
Identification
Visualization
of Local
Engine
Issues

February
2012
2011 September
Development Ideas
of Database Brainstorming

January October
Development Mockups of
of Counter Traffic counter
December November
Development Data
of Counter Structure
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Meet The Team 3

Associate Professor Dr. Rohail Ilyas

Muhammad Irfan Team Member
Advisor Undergraduate Student
HOD Transportation NUST, Islamabad
Engineering, NUST, Islamabad

Muhammad Nouman
Fahad Islam Tiwana Team Member
Team Member Undergraduate Student
Undergraduate Student NUST, Islamabad
NUST, Islamabad

Muhammad Saad Ullah Haroon Ahmed Choudhry

Team Member Team Member
Undergraduate Student Undergraduate Student
NUST, Islamabad NUST, Islamabad
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“Future lies with those who

believe in the beauty of their
dreams” ~SallyKoch
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THANKS
FOR
COMING