Using CCTV Cameras with Sensors to Help Lessen Traffic in Makati City

Abstract

In this study, the researchers would like to identify the ability of the use of CCTV cameras installed with sensors, to help lessen the traffic situation in the Makati area. Furthermore, this study should be able to address the vast traffic situation in the Makati area, since it caters to some of the Philippines’ busiest roads - particularly the C5, Gil Puyat Buendia, Osmeña Highway and a part of EDSA. This study should also potentially be able to recognize the newly developed technologies that could be used for the proposed CCTV with sensors, which would be used in order to monitor the area and determine the number of cars in each lane. The study utilizes the case study method of research wherein it is defined by the Merriam-Webster Dictionary as an intensive analysis of an individual situation in real life that can be looked at, or studied in order to learn something. Therefore, the researchers chose case study as their research design in order to ponder more of what could be gathered from that situation. The respondents of the study are MAPSA enforcers and everyday commuters of Makati City. The instrument used will be a survey questionnaire containing questions that, when answered, would be able to provide the researchers with the needed information. Data-gathering was done through both interview and online surveying via Google Forms.