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In recent years, cities are experiencing a deep negative impact due to traffic congestion. As the number of vehicles is increasing rapidly, traffic congestion becomes unsustainable in urban domains specially in peak hours leading to time and fuel waste, accidents, additional costs for the economy, environmental problems and consequently impaired quality of life. Tremendous effort is done to provide solutions dealing with traffic congestion detection and monitoring. Based on used technologies, existing solutions can be classified into three categories: sensor technology, Vehicular Adhoc Networks and visual traffic surveillance. In this survey, we review the main recent works proposed in each category and discuss their strengths and weaknesses. We give an insight of future directions for handling congestion using the presented methods.
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Chetouane, A., Mabrouk, S., Mosbah, M. (2020). Traffic Congestion Detection: Solutions, Open Issues and Challenges. In: Jemili, I., Mosbah, M. (eds) Distributed Computing for Emerging Smart Networks. DiCES-N 2020. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1348. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-65810-6_1
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