DRUM Web App Latest News
Recently, IIT Kharagpur associate professor and students created the Dynamic Route Planning for Urban Green Mobility (or DRUM) web app.
About DRUM Web App
- It’s like Google Maps but with the added feature of allowing users pick routes based on air quality and energy efficiency.
- It gives users five route options: shortest, fastest, least exposure to air pollution (LEAP), least energy consumption route (LECR), and a combination of all four factors called the suggested route.
- It was designed to fetch live pollution and traffic data the moment a user entered a route instead of pulling data at intervals.
- It determines routes using GraphHopper, a Java-based routing library that generates multiple options, while fetching real-time traffic updates from Mapbox.Â
- The team relied on data from the CPCB and the World Air Quality Index.
- They implemented a segment-wise interpolation strategy to estimate pollution levels in areas without direct sensor coverage, divided routes into segments, and used nearby sensor data to estimate pollution where coverage was missing.
- To test the system, the team simulated Delhi’s East, South, North, and Central corridors, accounting for different traffic, road quality, and pollution patterns.
- The results showed that shorter or faster routes often passed through polluted zones, offsetting time or distance gains.
DRUM Web App FAQs
Q1:Â What is the meaning of green mobility?
Ans:Â Green transportation or green mobility is the movement of people and goods in any energy-efficient transportation mode with a low environmental effect.Â
Q2:Â What does the Central Pollution Control Board do?
Ans:Â It is responsible for maintaining national standards under a variety of environmental laws, in consultation with regional directorates, tribal, and local governments.
Source:Â TH
