How AI Works To Unravel Jakarta Congestion And Its Benefits

Illustration of AI for reducing congestion in Jakarta (ANTARA/Ho/DKI Jakarta Transportation Agency)

YOGYAKARTA The DKI Jakarta Provincial Government (Pemprov) utilizes artificial intelligence (AI) technology to overcome traffic jam problems. The Transportation Agency (Dishub) itself installed and so far the installation has been carried out at 20 crossroads. Then, how does AI work to solve Jakarta's congestion?

In general, artificial intelligence or AI is a computer program that is designed to resemble intelligence possessed by humans, including the ability to make decisions, use of logic, and other matters related to other intelligence.

Currently, many technology companies are implementing AI in various fields to ease human work. One of the efforts to implement AI to overcome the problems faced by humans is AI to unravel Jakarta's traffic jams.

The way AI works to solve congestion in Jakarta in general is to carry out vehicle volume analysis activities in intersection areas. Traffic jam decommissioning AI uses data obtained from the Google satellite. After the results of vehicle volume identification are carried out, the results will be used to set the duration of the green light to be more effective.

The form of AI technology that relieves congestion in Jakarta itself is the ANPR camera or Automatic Number Plate Recognition. This camera is usually used to read vehicle number plates recorded on camera optics. This camera is also used for electronic ticketing systems applied by the Police. The difference is that the Jakarta congestion decomposition camera is placed 100 meters before the intersection point.

Cameras connected to the AI system will calculate the volume of vehicle traffic passing through the intersection. After that, a time cycle calculation will be carried out, the results of which are used to effectively estimate the duration of the green and red lights. The denser the one junction, the more priority it gets to pass in order to reduce congestion.

Head of the DKI Jakarta Transportation Agency (Dishub) Syafrin Liputo explained that currently his party has installed 20 cameras equipped with AI.

"So, there are twenty intersections that have implemented AI principles with an 'intelligent transport system' (smart transportation system) in the 'traffic light' (traffic light)," he explained.

According to him, the application of AI is quite influential, especially in monitoring and regulating traffic light times based on data obtained from internal Google data. AI is also able to strengthen the function of the traffic management system (adaptive force) that is run. In addition, it is also able to help calculate the volume of vehicles at the intersection actualally. Thus, the Transportation Agency is able to compare road capacity with traffic density (vc ratio).

That's how AI works to solve Jakarta's traffic jams. Visit VOI.ID to get other interesting information.