IJSRSET151136 | Received: 30 Jan 2015 | Accepted: 9 Feb 2015 | January-February 2015 [(1)1: 161-164] Themed Section: Engineering and Technology 161 ANDROID BASED TRAFFIC UPDATES P. Arun *1 , R. Lokeshvarma 2 , P. Krishnakumar 3 , S. Sivakumar 4 Dhanalakshmi College of Engineering, Chennai, Tamilnadu, India ABSTRACT Road traffic congestions are one of the major problems in highly populated cities. In the recent years, GPS based solutions have become popular since people are able to see the traffic flow on streets instantaneously. However such systems are lack of intelligent reasoning regarding the traffic problem. In this system people can get intimation about traffic updates and can see incidents or roadblocks in road using gmap and the admin traffic police department can post their comment and users can see it. Keywords Traffic Congestion I. INTRODUCTION Social traffic application using android is an application used to detect the status of the traffic in the particular area, these status are posted by the current user bypassed already as the same rider can get the status of another area which was bypassed by another user hence it becomes a large chain. These posts have various statuses like accident, road block and traffic jam. The highlight of this application is that the web server sync automatically for an every hour, there is another highlight that the post can be reverted as true or false by the users to avoid the fake post. Government try to strengthen their transport infrastructure and increase road capacity to minimize the traffic congestion problem. However, the problem is growing faster than the transport infrastructure strengthened by the governments. In order to avoid that situation an android based web services can be developed that share traffic updates. RELATED APPLICATIONS There has been existing systems, which can give updates on traffic updates, First is the application which uses sensors installed on vehicles which receive GPS signals to locate vehicles, and the other is the system which uses satellites that monitor the traffic on certain region which shows speed ranges at different positions on road, such as red line for congestion, yellow line for slow movement of vehicle and green line for fast movement. But using satellites and sensors will cost higher and to share a traffic update it is very difficult. In order to avoid that an android application can be used to share updates. Since 81% of the people use android smartphones it is easy to distribute. This application will use in build GPS in the smartphone. II. METHODS AND MATERIAL 2.1 ANDROID BASED TRAFFIC UPDATES Our android based system takes advantage of the web service technologies in its implementation. It has a friendly user interface to view updates on maps and includes functionalities that are developed to mitigate time spent in the traffic. Our proposed system uses the Google API 1.3 for marking the locations on the map. At first, the system requires user registration and then login procedures. Then, users are able to enter traffic related incidents, follow traffic incidents instantly © 2015 IJSRSET | Volume 1 | Issue 1 | Print ISSN : 2395-1990 | Online ISSN : 2394-4099