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Master Thesis Using interactive social network to reveal the road situation(2013) Alkateb, AbdulrahmanThis study introduces a method to extract useful information from social network activities in order to help the people who live in big cities to avoid traffic problems. In this study we developed an interactive social network to reveal the road situation in real-time via a mobile application. The system based on built-in Global Positioning System (GPS) on mobile and the Geographic Information System (GIS). We conducted a survey to investigate and evaluate the application in users' daily road activities combined in its social network frame. This study has shown that mobility of the social network can be used to reveal the road situation with 82% as general evaluation according to the conducted survey.
