SAR: A social-aware route recommendation system for intelligent transportation

Driving is an important part in daily life. But it is also dangerous when people drive in a bad mood or when people are tired. In this paper, we propose SAR, a novel social aware route recommendation system, which is designed to recommend proper routes to drivers to help diminish negative mood and fatigue and help improve driving experience. SAR integrates multiple sources of sensing data from smartphones to recommend a proper route to the driver considering the driver’s real-time mood-fatigue, history record, and social information. Experiments have been conducted with SAR to demonstrate the system’s effectiveness as well as reasonable computation and communication overheads on smartphones.