<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>47</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Lyamine Guezouli</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Souheila Bouam</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Abdelmadjid Zidani</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Highway congestion prevention using smart sensors</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">International Conference on Software Engineering, Databases and Expert Systems (SEDEXS 2012)</style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2012</style></year></dates><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">The main purpose of this paper is to enable congestion prediction on&lt;br&gt;urban freeways and objectively measure their impact on daily life.&lt;br&gt;Indeed, cars’ movement becomes increasingly difficult and, often&lt;br&gt;causes traffic jams that can last for hours, because of growing number&lt;br&gt;of used cars, in addition to the unforeseen events that may complicate&lt;br&gt;more and more this problem (weather, accidents, road works ...). This&lt;br&gt;is mainly due to the lack of efficient management of roads'&lt;br&gt;congestions. This paper attempts to bring a technological response to&lt;br&gt;significantly reduce the congestion problem. Our approach uses smart&lt;br&gt;sensors which allow traffic jam detecting and relaying such critical&lt;br&gt;information. Thus, while providing the drivers with context aware&lt;br&gt;information such as that related to the status of the highway before&lt;br&gt;crossing, we enable them to make decision and select another road&lt;br&gt;avoiding the congested one and reducing, by the way, the congestion&lt;br&gt;itself.</style></abstract></record></records></xml>