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Smart Highway: Near Future System in Jakarta
Atut Pindarwati
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Student, Institute of Statistics (STIS), Indonesia
Jl. Otto Iskandardinata 64C Jakarta Timur, Indonesia
atutpindarwati.95@gmail.com
Abstract
The escalation of the number of vehicles on the road and complicated traffic drive to increase several accidents.
This is due to the fact that the current transportation infrastructure and current mass technology that applied to vehicle
are unable to cope with the influx of vehicles on the road. Traffic management poses many critical challenges in most
modern cities. To alleviate the aforementioned problems, the smart highway car control system concept was
submitted. With the implementation of the smart highway control concept, traffic jam and vehicular accident can be
avoided and the car users are more comfortable with a hassle free autopilot system on the vehicles. This system
provides both practically important traffic data collection and control information and can trace criminal or illegal
vehicles such as stolen cars or vehicle that evade toll tax. The system architecture consisted of ACC sensor, RFID
reader, and GPS navigation. Based on the latest technology, the system collects and calculates average speed and
information on each highway in the world. Then it shares and synchronizes live traffic data by upstream transmission
of messages about the current traffic situation and adjust the speed of car via communication program to the car near
to the driver. Through a flooding algorithm, each server in a distinct center exchanges and updates information with
all neighbor servers in other distinct center so all that the servers in various distinct center can get all the latest traffic
data in a highway. In this paper, we analyze and compare latest development of several different intelligent
transportation system fundamental components. We elaborate some proposed suggestion to those components and
analyze the potency and challenges of its implementation in Jakarta transportation.
Keywords: smart highway system; intelligent transportation system; traffic jam;
I. INTRODUCTION
During 2013, there are 104,118,969 vehicles were
reported compared to the year 1999 where there were
only 18,224,149 vehicles which makes it a rough
estimate of 571% increase in a span of 16 years in
Indonesia [1]. Referring to the aforesaid statistics
provided by Statistics Indonesia (BPS) [1], the current
transportation infrastructure and car technology are
deemed insufficient in sustaining the influx of vehicles
that can make problems such as traffic congestion and
vehicular accidents. About 100,106 cases of highway
accidents were reported by BPS on 2013 [2]. Various
measures have been taken in the attempt to overcome
the traffic problems. On the other side, transport
accounts for 26% of global CO
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emissions and car use is
the principal contributors to greenhouse gas emissions.
Traffic congestion is one of many causes of increased
emissions [3]. Although, the problem can be addressed
via many methods, the paper focuses on the smart
highway car management system introduced.
Jakarta City, as other metropolitan city in the world,
faces some problem such as traffic jam, complicated
urban development issues, crime, etc [4]–[6]. This study
will explain and elaborate the concept of intelligent
transportation management technology and analyze its
feasibilty to be implemented in Jakarta City.
II. RELATED WORKS
Some of recent relevant studies on intelligent
transportation has been proposed in the related
literatures. Table I pointed out some of those relevant
research.
Review of those relevant studies reveals one
important gaps in literature, there is no comprehensive
study that explain the future transportation system.
Table I. Related relevant works