Crowd Traffic

A real-time traffic sensor web. This is a prototype based on the Android platform and using GPS/accelerometers to track real-time traffic conditions and record them in an online database to be viewed by other users.

This app uses GPS data to track a drivers speed and direction and uses these data to inform an online database of traffic conditions. It is basically applying crowd-sourcing concepts to the problem of live, accurate traffic monitoring.

This application was developmed as a summer internship project under the guidance of Professor WenZhan Song at Georgia State University’s Sensorweb Research Laboratory. He has since moved to the University of Georgia.

The app is written in Java for Android smartphones. A server was set up with Google’s App Engine service to run server-side Java code. Crowd Traffic was published on Google Play until 2013. The code for the Android app is available here.