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Improving Road Safety and Transport Efficiency Using Cellular Networks in Tanzania

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dc.creator Ngeze, L.V.
dc.creator Mvungi, Nerey H.
dc.date 2016-02-20T12:16:43Z
dc.date 2016-02-20T12:16:43Z
dc.date 2012
dc.date.accessioned 2018-03-27T08:52:11Z
dc.date.available 2018-03-27T08:52:11Z
dc.identifier L.V Ngeze, N.H. Mvungi, Improving Road Safety and Transport Efficiency Using Cellular Networks in Tanzania, JIVE, Vol. 1, 2012
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/473
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/3426
dc.description Road transport takes about 70% of the transportation systems in Tanzania. The number of vehicles and urbanization had been increasing while the road infrastructure capacity remained the same; hence the number of road accidents, casualties and deaths kept rising. The rate of road accidents has to be reduced. Wireless technologies have shown to be a good candidate for facilitating road safety and transport efficiency through vehicular communications. Hence, it has been an area of active research work. It has been considered to integrate traffic information from traffic unit into cellular networks and to broadcast the information to road users as a means to increase road safety and to optimize road usage. This work tested the use of wireless technologies to support road users using North Chiang Tung University Network Simulator which showed that broadcasting traffic information to road users at a particular point using cellular networks can increase road safety. In this paper causes of road accidents, the different wireless technologies used in vehicular communications and the model to provide traffic information with focus on the use of cellular networks are presented.
dc.language en
dc.publisher CIVE
dc.subject road safety
dc.subject transport efficiency
dc.subject vehicular communications
dc.subject wireless technologie
dc.subject integrate traffic information
dc.title Improving Road Safety and Transport Efficiency Using Cellular Networks in Tanzania
dc.type Journal Article, Peer Reviewed


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