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Transportation system is one of the critical and important areas that affects the quality of life and reflect the civilization of the nation. The Kingdom of Bahrain is one of the countries that confronts the problems of transportation with specific features. Mostly, traffic congestion in kingdom of Bahrain is a serious problem that faces peoples and increases difficulties at personal or governmental level. However, all these efforts are limited because the nature of the country. In this paper, we propose a new solution to solve the transportation problem in the kingdom of Bahrain. The proposed solution is a mobile application based on the social media concept in which it takes into consideration the social and infrastructure characteristics of the country. The proposed application named “Pick-Me” gathers different concepts of social media and mobile techniques such as chat forum, geo-localization, artificial intelligence, etc.
Inspec keywords: traffic engineering computing; mobile computing; transportation; social networking (online)
Subjects: Traffic engineering computing; Mobile, ubiquitous and pervasive computing; Information networks