Unraveling Urban Traffic Congestion Patterns in Bangladesh

Md. Babul Hasan, Manash Sarker

2025

Abstract

This research presents a comprehensive study on divisional traffic analysis and clustering in Bangladesh, leveraging Google Maps and image processing techniques for traffic intensity data collection across all divisions from January 2023 to June 2023. A total of 1,39,008 snapshots were captured at 15-minute intervals, yielding a detailed traffic dataset. We conducted an in-depth analysis of the collected time series data, focusing on its decomposition into trend, seasonal, and random components (Y = T * S * R). To enhance clustering accuracy, we proposed a modification technique by dividing traffic intensity (Y) by the random fluctuations (R) to minimize random noise in the data preprocessing stage. We implemented Modified Hierarchical Clustering with Dynamic Time Warping (DTW) for clustering, demonstrating superior similarities-pattern extraction compared to traditional hierarchical clustering. Our results identified four distinct traffic clusters. This study provides insights into regional traffic behaviors and offers a robust approach to clustering traffic data, contributing to Bangladesh’s more effective traffic management strategies.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Hasan M. and Sarker M. (2025). Unraveling Urban Traffic Congestion Patterns in Bangladesh. In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Vehicle Technology and Intelligent Transport Systems - Volume 1: VEHITS; ISBN 978-989-758-745-0, SciTePress, pages 319-325. DOI: 10.5220/0013193600003941

in Bibtex Style

@conference{vehits25,
author={Md. Hasan and Manash Sarker},
title={Unraveling Urban Traffic Congestion Patterns in Bangladesh},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Vehicle Technology and Intelligent Transport Systems - Volume 1: VEHITS},
year={2025},
pages={319-325},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0013193600003941},
isbn={978-989-758-745-0},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Vehicle Technology and Intelligent Transport Systems - Volume 1: VEHITS
TI - Unraveling Urban Traffic Congestion Patterns in Bangladesh
SN - 978-989-758-745-0
AU - Hasan M.
AU - Sarker M.
PY - 2025
SP - 319
EP - 325
DO - 10.5220/0013193600003941
PB - SciTePress