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Asian Journal of Applied Sciences

Year: 2011 | Volume: 4 | Issue: 4 | Page No.: 362-377
DOI: 10.3923/ajaps.2011.362.377
Design of GPS-Based System to Avoid Camel-Vehicle Collisions: A Review
Mohammed S. Zahrani, Khaled Ragab and Asrar Ul Haque

Abstract: Hundreds of Camel-Vehicle accidents are reported every year causing numerous deaths and loss of property running into millions of Saudi Riyals. Ministry of Transport of the Kingdom spends billions of Saudi Riyals to deal with this problem by building fences along the highways which costly, difficult to maintain and isolate the camel habitat. To address this problem, a deployable and intelligent Camel-Vehicle Accident Avoidance System (CVAAS) was designed using global positioning system (GPS) technology. This paper conducted a survey of the developed animal detection and warning systems. It provided recent and numerous reviews of the worldwide technologies which are being used to reduce animal-vehicle collisions. Also, this paper introduced the design of the Camel-Vehicle Accident Avoidance System (CVAAS) in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The CVAAS project took a first comprehensive step towards a system that will help detect camels on the highway and warn drivers as well. The innovative findings of this study is the careful and intelligent use of the GPS to detect the camel position, direction and movement. Moreover, CVAAS identified the dangerous zones that enables the warning system to adapt the alarming period. The CVAAS can be classified as an Intelligent Transportation System (ITS). The use of GPS technology in this kind of application is a novel idea. This proposal can be recognized as a world leader in using GPS for avoiding animal-vehicle collision. The research highlighted the advantages of CVAAS to save human lives as well as camels in such accidents and save billions of Saudi Riyal.

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Mohammed S. Zahrani, Khaled Ragab and Asrar Ul Haque, 2011. Design of GPS-Based System to Avoid Camel-Vehicle Collisions: A Review. Asian Journal of Applied Sciences, 4: 362-377.

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