Online Transport Monitoring System by the Integration of GPS and GIS

Easy and safe people transportation is a big challenge facing the governments any time anywhere. So roads and Traffic control lie at the heart of the modern civilization (OTS). The integration of Geographic Information System (GIS) and Global Positioning System (GPS) technologies together can be achieved by a variety of ways and their applications are numerous. Determining the overall transport monitoring (OTM) is essential issue of integration GPS and GIS. Transport Monitoring System (TMS), which can efficiently monitor and control the vehicles location, speed, traffic congestion and delay, is emerging in many Intelligent Transportation Management Systems (ITMS)⁴. GIS and GPS technology linked with means of wireless communication are essential to the system for determining the vehicle location and speed and from the data collected by GPS receiver and that stored in Databases we can derived a lot of useful helpful information in monitoring and managing transport. It is required to have a technique to handle the huge amount of spatial data entailed in a digital road map and data that received from the GPS belongs to the coordinates and speed, in order to trace the accurate position within a reasonable time. In this paper, we propose a client/server solution, two integrated databases the first for the spatial data processing and the second is textual as an alternative database to store text coordinates of the spatial data to eliminate the processing time, and a cache method to improve the system performance.