Real Time Bi-directional Traffic Management Support System with GPS and WebSocket

In this paper, we present the principles of a low operational-cost but flexible Internet-based traffic management support system. Most of the past systems were implemented with machine vision (image processing), RFID gateways, aerial surveillance, and/or remote sensors technologies. However, the major drawbacks of the above mentioned systems are their installation difficulties, maintenance over the time, error handling, coverage and cost effectiveness. Nevertheless, they consist unicast/one way communication (client to server only). The proposed system will bring real time bidirectional communication between the clients and the servers. Accurate and real-time traffic situation can be plotted at any given time. In addition, it would make better utilization of the existing technologies to achieve the goals. Users will be able to get help/advice from the system to find the optimized and cost effective way to reach from source to destination or vice versa.