International Science and Technology Journal

Most accidents occur as a result of cumulative factors - such as the car’s condition, road design, traffic condition, driver’s condition, skill and experience, and the environmental or weather condition. There is high correlation between these factors and the recurrence of accidents in the same area. Therefore, accidents at a particular location represent good parameter of how dangerous a location can be. However, currently a driver does not normally and readily know how dangerous his driving route to a destination, especially at a new driving route. Furthermore, current popular GPS does not include this information in their system. In this project, a road assistance system to warn on dangerous locations using GPS is proposed. The system will alert the drivers of any incoming dangerous areas on his driving route using sound and graphical information on a mobile device. An Android based mobile client/server system focusing on a 3-km route in Parit Raja Johor has been implemented to test this proposal. A district level police station has provided all accidents records for this project. The system has been tested with a number of users by installing the application on their devises and it has given good and promising responses in terms of usability and performance. With more comprehensive real-time dataset, this system may help to reduce road accidents by alerting the drivers as early as possible at any location.