John Cunningham2/16/06CS 8803 Project Proposal: Mobile Traffic MonitorI. Motivation and Objectives Traffic in Atlanta is a problem that everyone living here has to deal with. There are manysources of traffic information, but most are not useful when you are actually stuck in traffic. Information from television stations is not available when you’re in your car and you have to wait until radio stations do their traffic report every 15 minutes or so. There exists a need for readily available traffic information to mobile users. Devices that this information could be delivered to are plentiful in today’s society. Cell phones, PDAs, and other devices could easily display this information. The main objective is to deliver specific traffic information to mobile users that matters to them. The Georgia Navigator site already has cell phone and PDA version, but they are not very user friendly. They simply give large amounts of information that is a hassle to view on the small screens of mobile devices. An ideal solution would be to have a GPS enabled mobile device that sends your coordinates and direction of travel and then traffic information from your path would be delivered to you. However, a simpler version could present common paths on major highways since this would be the main useof the information. Another possibility is to have the user register their schedule and travel path and then information could be delivered to them when there are accidents around that time on that path. II. Related work When I was an undergraduate at Clemson University, there was a project being done by some students to create an application that takes visitors on a tour of the campus through using a mobile device. Their idea was to use GPS coordinates to guide visitors through a set path of the campus and provide them information about the campus on the mobile device.III. Proposed work To create a system that allows mobile users to view traffic information that is helpful to them. Possibly adding to the system a messaging feature that notifies people of accidentson their paths without them having to check the page. Technologies Used WML Database (mySQL, SQL Server, or Oracle) Web services RSS feedIV. Plan of action Resources Access to a database system Develop code in Visual Studio .NETSchedule Acquire the resources necessary for the project Design the user interface Set up the tables in the database to store data Set up a repeated download from the Georgia Navigator site Put together the system components Test the system Develop project deliverablesV. Evaluation and Testing Method The main evaluation for this project is the overall usability of the system. Does it providethe mobile user with the information they are looking for in an effective way? The design of the system will have to adhere to the constraints of mobile devices. The user should not be required to type a lot of input and transitions between pages should be clear. If the messaging component is developed, does it notify the user in a timely fashion about new accidents or other