Google Maps Route Traffic Safety

Inspiration

Roads are dangerous, and some people probably care more about the safety of the route than the speed

What it does

The application takes the weather data, and time that you are traveling and outputs a safety rating of the route

How I built it

Used KNN and the KSI-toronto kaggle dataset to classify different road conditions into either crash or no crash. After it is given the input of destination and starting point, it pulls a route from the Google Maps API. At every step, it analyzes location, weather and time to determine the safety rating of the route

Challenges I ran into

Time- as I was working myself, It was difficult to get everything done. Incomplete Dataset- This dataset only contains crash data. Therefore, I had to create my own data for non crashes. This took a lot of time

Accomplishments that I'm proud of

It sort of works?

What I learned

Google Maps API, data preprocessing

What's next for Google Maps Route Traffic Safety

Take in weather from an api rather than user input. Build a good frontend that displays different route options with their corresponding safety rating. Write better code. The current code is a big mess

Built With

• python