DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF AN SMS BASED ROAD TRAFFIC OFFENCE TRACKER AND PROFILING SYSTEM,
DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF AN SMS BASED ROAD TRAFFIC OFFENCE TRACKER AND PROFILING SYSTEM,
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2015-05
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Magaji, MOHAMMED,
Auwalu
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Federal Road Safety Commission Act, Cap 141, Law of the Federation of Nigeria 2007 (FRSC Act, Cap 141, LFN 2007.) has mandated FRSC Operatives to seize, suspend or disqualify from driving on Nigeria’s roads, any recalcitrant Road Traffic Offenders (RTO), who is adjudged to have accumulated 25 or more penalty points from the road traffic offenses. However, due to lack of access to road traffic information, the mandate has never been implemented to date. In this dissertation, we set out to re-engineer FRSC Patrol Operations. Our objective is to provide the FRSC Field Operatives with ubiquitous access to road traffic offenders’ information from the patrol locations. We analyzed the old FRSC record management system; we re-structured the data on road traffic and designed ‘An SMS Based Road Traffic Offense Tracker and Profiler, called (Tracker), which solved the problem of access road traffic offense information for the FRSC Operatives. Global System for Mobility (GSM), Short Message Service (SMS), Java, Android, Extensible Mark-up Language (XML), PHP and other relevant technologies were used to implement the Tracker. The Tracker had been successfully implemented and tested with knocked-off RTO data from Federal Capital Territory, Abuja (FCT, Abuja). It is found worthy for use by FRSC, as it is working correctly and capable of receiving, processing and replying users’ requests, not only from Nigeria, but from all over the world. The Tracker offered the FRSC Operatives real time ability for tracking and profiling the road traffic offenses, vehicle and vehicle owners’ and implementation of the RTO Penalty Points for the disqualification or suspension of recalcitrant motorist,
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A THESIS SUBMITTED TO POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY ZARIA NIGERIA IN PARTIAL FULFILMENT FOR THE AWARD OF MASTER OF SCIENCE DEGREE IN COMPUTER SCIENCE,
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DESIGN,, IMPLEMENTATION,, SMS BASED,, ROAD TRAFFIC,, OFFENCE TRACKER,, PROFILING,, SYSTEM,