Figure 1. Components of Open Traffic Software The components of Open Traffic software are shown in Figure 1. Traffic Engine, Traffic Data Pool, Open Street Map (OSM-linked) Traffic Data Set and Real-time Routing API are considered as the back bone of the architecture. The Map of Malaysia can be accessed and can be downloaded from the Geofabrik’s server. Thi: server provides maps for OSM projects, which are updated. The map in pdf is downloaded fron http://download.geofabrik.de/asia/malaysia-singapore-brunei.html. Since the scope of this work is to tak consideration of Kuala Lumpur only, so the map of KL was downloaded from this linl https://mapzen.com/data/metroextracts/metro/kuala-lumpur_malaysia/ as shown in Figure 3. The format o the map downloaded in raw OSM data as pdf format. Figure 2. Comprehensive Flow Chart to Collect Traffic Flow Data The congregated spots in Figure 5 shows the points of interest (POI) which were loaded from CSV file in Traffic Engine. Since the loading of the data, the number of the traffic statistics that were counted along the process are displayed by the “Data Loader Status Bar”. It will keep on updating as long as the Traffic Engine App remains connected with the server. At the end, after the extraction of data from the GPS and extracting the traffic speed in CSV format the platform is ready to collect the data and the interface looked like as shown in Figure 6. Figure 7. Traffic Analysis For whole Kuala Lumpur area in Nov 2016 Figure 8. Traffic Analysis for Major Town in 4th Week of October 2016 Some major towns of Kuala Laumpur were taken into consideration for the analysing the traffic behaviour spanning a week. These towns were Sentul, Pudu, Kampung baru, Seksyen 10, Bangsar, China Town and the Starhill. A slow trait was experienced at the towns od depicted in Figure 9. The average traffic speed varies between 26-34kp strategic location of the Bangsar, which is connected to Petaling Jaya Bangsar, Chinatown and Starhill as h. Most of this slow speed owes to the by means of the Federal Highway. It also connected to the New Pantai Expressway and the Sprint Expressway. Besides this, Maybank tower, Bangsar village and some automotive showrooms are also situaued in the vicinity of Bangsar. This all factors contributes and make Bangsar a hotspot of activities. Chinatown on the other hand is a very famous tourist’s attraction because it is surrounded by hotels and it is thronged by the hawkers espcially at night. This place alternatively is also known as Petaling Street which attracts the visitors. On the otherside, Starhill has luxury shopping malls such as Pavilion, Sungei Wang Plaza and Times Square. Moderate traffic speeda are observed for Sentul, Kampung Baru and Seksyen 10. This is because t and business areas in their vicinity. hese places have shopping complexes Figure 9. Traffic Analysis on Hourly Basis at Masjid India Road on 24th October 2016 An hourly data collection approach was taken at an important location i.e. Masjid India. Figure 9 shows the analysis made on hourly basis at Masjid India road on 24th October 2016. Heavy traffic flow was observed after 9.00 am until midnight.
