City Informer – The Local Roads Information Hub

Abstract

Social City Informer is a crowd-sourced road traffic community platform for highly populated metropolitans. It transforms the way citizens reach their destinations, by allowing the community to share real-time traffic updates with each other. As a passion project, Social City Informer solves a problem we face on a daily basis. Unexpected events like major road accidents, construction work, protests and rallies, etc. significantly disrupt the flow of traffic, making the daily rush hour commute a major headache. To make the situation worse, these conditions, along with their severity, change on an irregular basis. Built as a responsive mobile web app that works on all modern smartphone and tablet platforms including iOS, Android, and Windows Phone, Social City Informer practically targets every citizen. Citizens are encouraged to share traffic conditions through the app including their type, and severity. These events are then publicly shared through the platform using Google Maps API. Using this knowledge, traffic may be diverted to less congested roads and highways using the route suggestion module.