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The Design of a Traffic Management System for Ghana
G.O. Ofori-Dwumfuo and Betty A. Dankwah
Corresponding Author: G.O. Ofori-Dwumfuo
Submitted: 2011 November, 21
Accepted: 2011 December, 16
Published: 2011 December, 30 |
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Traffic congestion has become a menace in Ghana, especially, the Accra Metropolitan Area. Some
issues that have been identified as having contributed to this include the rural-urban migration (with its resultant
pressures on the planning of the metropolis), the displacement of residents from the central business district (to
convert residential facilities there into commercial facilities), the poor road networks, the increasing number
of vehicles, poor timing of traffic signals, and attitudes of road users. This project analyses the ICT intervention
required for monitoring traffic on Accra roads with possible extension to other roads in Ghana. The
methodology used includes reviews of various existing Intelligent Transport Systems of which Traffic
Monitoring System is a subsystem, identifying what exactly constitutes congestion on the case study corridor,
translating the identified problems into a network vision resulting in the design of a Traffic Monitoring System
Architecture. Analysis is made of the data capture required, the issuing of alerts via Message Signs to road
users, the communication network infrastructure and the associated facilities for multimedia data storage and
retrieval. Considerations of collaborations with agencies for traffic incident management on the corridor to ease
congestion has been analysed as well as the security implications of the various stages of the design.
Key words: Ghana road management, intelligent transport systems, traffic congestion, traffic monitoring,, traffic system design, ,
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G.O. Ofori-Dwumfuo and Betty A. Dankwah, . The Design of a Traffic Management System for Ghana. Research Journal of Information Technology , (4): 139-150.
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ISSN (Online): 2041-3114
ISSN (Print): 2041-3106 |
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