M-TRADA  www.mtrada.com

M-TRADA is a Cloud Based data mining platform to collect travel time data using Google map APIs. It was developed in year 2017 by Dr. Dimantha De Silva and Mr. Sakitha Kumarage (Currently a PhD Candidate at UQ, Brisbane) from the Transportation Engineering Division, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Moratuwa.

First Developed to independently monitor and check the accuracy of the speeds published by the study team of a Bus Priority Lane project, M-TRADA has now been developed in to a fully functional, verified cloud based platform.

M-Trada can collect travel times/speed data with following features.        

• Continuous Data
• Automated and Scheduled
• Multiple Locations at once (Any number of Segments)
• Any time of the day
• Anywhere in the World
• Frequency as low as 1 min
• Realtime Analysis
• Accurate

Access to the M-TRADA platform is through the cloud through an individual user account. The users will be able to collect travel time data following the instructed steps of the web platform. The key features of M-TRADA (www.mtrada.com) includes GUI (Graphical User Interface) for scheduling and mapping of data, user management and short term storage of data.

M-TRADA has been used for projects by many Sri Lankan Authorities such as Road Development Authority, Sri Lanka Police, Ministry of Transport, Ministry of Urban Design, Ministry of Highways, Colombo Municipal Council and multiple Consultancy work. It has also been used and tested in Japan.

Has been successfully used in Sri Lanka and Japan for                                    

1. Identification of Bottlenecks
2. Before and After Analysis,
3. Analysis of queue length variations
4. Corridor management studies
5. Planning route guidance and traffic diversions plans
6. Data for long term transport planning models
7. Development of perimeter control strategies

Available for your next Travel Time Data Collection Anywhere in the World         

Contact : Dr Dimantha De Silva, dimanthads@uom.lk

Research work conducted using M-Trada

• Kumarage Sakitha P, Jayawardana VM, De Silva Dimantha, Bandara JMSJ (2017) Travel Time Estimation Based on Dynamic Traffic Data and Machine Learning Principles; Institute of Engineers Sri Lanka Annual Sessions, October 2017, Colombo, Sri Lanka
• Kumarage Sakitha P, De Silva Dimantha, Bandara JMSJ (2017) Crowdsourced data into evaluation of development projects: Applications in Sri Lanka; 6th Biennial International Conference of Sri Lanka Evaluators Association (SLEvA), September 2017, Colombo, Sri Lanka
• Kumarage Sakitha P, Rajapaksha RPGKS, Silva D De, Bandara JMSJ(2017) Traffic flow estimation for urban roads based on crowd sourced data and machine learning principles; Conference on Intelligent Transport Systems - From research and development to the market uptake, November 2017, Helsinki, Finland.
• Kumarage Sakitha P, De Silva Dimantha, Bandara JMSJ (2018) Identification of congestion patterns and road bottlenecks on urban road networks using crowdsourced traffic data; The 6th International Symposium of Transport Simulation and the 5th International Workshop on Traffic Data Collection and its Standardization (ISTS & IWTDCS 2018), August 2018, Matsuyama, Japan
• Kumarage S.P. (2018) Use of crowdsourced travel time data in traffic engineering applications. University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka.
• Kumarage Sakitha P, De Silva D, Bandara JMSJ (2019) Average Queue Length Estimation Using Crowdsourced Travel Time Data Under Heterogenous Traffic Conditions.; World Conference on Transport Research, May 2019, Mumbai, India
• Sajith Udayanga, Teppei Kato, Aya Kojima, Hisashi Kubota,‘Feasible (2019) Use of Crowdsourced Traffic Data in Transportation Engineering Applications’, 60th Civil Engineering Planning Conference, Japanese Society of Civil Engineers(JSCE), Toyama, Japan.
• W.Abewickrema,(2020) “Utilizing Big Data Sources in Four-Step Transport Model Development”, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
• Sajith Udayanga,(2020) ‘Analysis of Crowdsourced Traffic Data in Transportation Engineering Applications’, Graduate school of Science and Engineering, Saitama University.
• W. M. R. V. Wijepala and G. L. D. I. de Silva, "Development of a Cell Transmission Model Using Crowdsourced Data for Expressways," 2021 Moratuwa Engineering Research Conference (MERCon), 2021, pp. 468-473, doi: 10.1109/MERCon52712.2021.9525681.