Marwa Elbany et al., International Journal of Advanced Trends in Computer Science and Engineering, 10(1), January – February 2021, 282 - 288 282 Smart Alarm Traffic Management System for the Major Road to Isolation Hospital during the Covid-19 Pandemic in Port Said City Marwa Elbany 1 ,Heba Soliman 2 1 A lecturer of transportation planning and traffic engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Port Said University, 42523, Egypt,Email:mr2.elbany@gmail.com 2 An associate professor of wireless communications and signal processing of electric engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Port Said University, 42523, Egypt,Email: hebayms@eng.psu.edu.eg ABSTRACT Transportation is an important feature that affects the quality of life. Huge increase in population, modernization in all aspects of life, and cities expansion lead to a more congested traffic that may be acceptable for in-emerging trips but enormous for emergency trips, especially for COVID 19 patients with severe respiratory symptoms. Smart transportation techniques offer solutions to the congestion problems for different modes of transportation and traffic management. In this paper, a smart traffic solution to the congestion problem in the major road to isolation hospital in Port Said City is presented. Key words: Smart alarm system, Covid-19 pandemic, ambulance mobility, congestion, isolation hospital, time saving 1. INTRODUCTION Traffic congestion is a pressing problem that has a serious impact on economy, safety, and environment. It is shocking to know that 20% of patients die on their way to the hospital [1]. So, finding effective solutions to congestion problems has gained great interest in the broader research community [2]. On the practical side, there are many ways to reduce congestion, such as new roads construction, new policies for pricing, changing the transport system from road to train or another effective way smartly. Smart energy, intelligent transportation, wireless technologies, Global Positioning System GPS, sensing technologies, Internet of Things IoT and Artificial Intelligence AI are smart technologies widely used in smart cities [3]. Wireless communications between vehicles and infrastructures needs innovative real time applications to increase safety and comfort. These real time applications could include commuters to track vehicles with variable messages en-route and to determine low density route in real time also it could be used to study the real time traffic incidents [4]. Variable messages signs can be used on roads to give advice to drivers about traffic conditions or about the best route to follow instead of using congested routes. For private cars, IoT gives maximum benefits coming from better control over related infrastructure and the inherent flaws in vehicle transport. Various techniques such as RFID, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and radio communication could be used beside IoT to enhance the traffic systems [5].So, IoT and related control and signal processing systems such as AI are expected to make transportation organizations smarter and more successful at their tasks such as, improving the experience of travelers, reducing incidents and increasing inter/outer-modal safety, reducing congestion and the amount of energy use and giving a more advanced operational performance. In this paper, a smart traffic solution based on AI central control to the congestion problem in the major road to isolation hospital in Port Said City is presented. The paper is organized as follows; major information about Port Said city is presented in section 2. In section 3, COVID 19 pandemic effects are briefly discussed. The proposed smart traffic system is presented in section 4. In section 5, the traffic data analysis of the proposed system is shown. And finally, the paper is concluded in section 6. 2. PORT SAID CITY Port Said city is a coastal city located on the Mediterranean Sea in northern Egypt at the entrance of Suez Canal in the north and was named after the khedive Muḥammad Saʿīd (reined 1854–63), who selected the site of the town. Ferdinand De Lesseps, the engineer who constructed Suez Canal, visited the location of Port Said on the 25th of April 1859 and saw that its location was suitable to be the entrance to Suez Canal, as shown in Fig. 1. By the late 19th century, it was the world’s largest coal-bunkering station, catering almost exclusively to the Suez Canal traffic [6]. The harbor is its central point. On the other side of the Canal, there is another town called Port Fouad which considered as one of its administrative area. Between Port Said and Port ISSN 2278-3091 Volume 10, No.1, January - February 2021 International Journal of Advanced Trends in Computer Science and Engineering Available Online at http://www.warse.org/IJATCSE/static/pdf/file/ijatcse401012021.pdf https://doi.org/10.30534/ijatcse/2021/401012021