An improved travel safety for urban commuters using an iTracks system

Author

Sham, Rohana ; Hussein, Muhammad Zaly Shah Muhammad ; Ismail, Hairul Nizam ; Latif, Amminudin Ab ; Mohamed, Salina ; Othman, Roslina ; Yatim, Nurul Huda Md

Author_Institution

Fac. of Bus. Manage., Univ. Teknol. Malaysia, Skudai, Malaysia

fYear

2013

fDate

19-20 Aug. 2013

Firstpage

365

Lastpage

368

Abstract

The purpose of this research is to improve the travel safety among urban commuters. Even though the large amount of money has been invested to ensure user especially urban commuters can access the public transport comfortably, the safety and security measures still become a concern. Crimes such as sexual crimes on passengers, pickpocket, snatch thefts and etc reported continue to occur on trains, taxis, buses or while walking from drop-off points to another mode of transportation or destination. Therefore, this study aims to produce an improved tracking system for human while travelling in urban area.

Keywords

safety; traffic information systems; transportation; destination mode; drop-off points; human tracking system; iTracks system; pickpocket; public transport access; security measures; sexual crimes; snatch thefts; taxis; trains; transportation mode; travel safety improvement; urban commuters; Global Positioning System; Information systems; Mobile communication; Mobile handsets; Safety; Vehicles; Public transport; crime; system; travel safety;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

System Engineering and Technology (ICSET), 2013 IEEE 3rd International Conference on

Conference_Location

Shah Alam

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-1028-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICSEngT.2013.6650201

Filename

6650201