Road Traffic Incident Detection and Management Using Image Analysis for Chennai City

The paper analyses systematically widespread problems exiting in the most of the areas, which include incomplete in traffic incident in city, and lack of traffic information about the city. In view of these problems, the paper proposes to enhance the effectiveness of the traveller information. Traffic incidents are unavoidable in present traffic conditions. Hence it is necessary to manage the traffic incidents to reduce the loss time and cost due to the incidents. GIS is a suitable tool to manage the traffic incidents. This paper presents a GIS - based Traveller Information System developed for the Chennai city road network. The effect of the traffic incident on capacity, and alternative path are presented in the GIS framework.