CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
1.1 Background to the Study
Traffic Offence report System is a web based and database program that records all
the traffic offences committed nationwide. The system helps the Federal Road Safety
Commission (FRSC) keep adequate records of all traffic offences that has been
committed and that will still be committed by road users and also maintain the
databases of the commission.
In February 1988, the Federal Government established the Federal Road Safety
Commission through Decree No .45 of the 1988 as amended by Decree 35 of 1992
referred to in the statue books as the FRSC Act cap 141 laws of the Federation of
Nigeria (LFN) passed by the National Assembly as Federal Road Safety Commission
(establishment) Act 200.
Around the world road traffic injuries are a major public health challenges that
requires concerted efforts for effective and sustained prevention. An estimated 1.2
million people are killed in road crashes every year and many as 50 million have
supper injuries. The world health organization (WHO) believe that these figures
could increase by more than half over the next 20year unless there is a firm
commitment to road safety and accident prevention, especially in Nigeria. It is a dead
fact that many of these accidents and their consequences will have been avoidable.
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Therefore this project, web base traffic offence report system will help to keep
records of all traffic offences committed by road users and also maintain the
databases of the commission (F R S C).
1.2 Statement of the Problem
The present system of traffic offence system which is the manual system known as
(Notice of Offence Sheet) has a lot of problems which are mentioned below:
a) Time: Going by the present system of operation, time is consumed in the
manual handling of operation involved in road traffic documentation.
b) Cost: This is the greatest problem of the Federal Road Safety Commission.
The commission tends to lose a lot of money running the agency manually.
c) Document Integrity: This is viewed in the contest of safety, in validity of the
records in document files used in report generation. In terms of safety, the
nature of the system makes it vulnerable to theft, fire or accidental destruction.
This makes the system unsafe as the time needed to replace lost data or files is
enormously large.
1.3 Aim and Objective of the Study
This study is designed to help Federal Road Safety Commission to document all road
traffic offences incurred by the road users. This study also tries to give an in-depth
look in the easiest and most effective way for the growth and development of the
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Federal Road Safety Commission of Nigeria, in order to control and render its
services to Nigerians and other countries.
The objective of the study is as follows:
1. To develop efficient software that provides the general public the means of
obtaining information about traffic Offence.
2. To educate users on traffic sign thereby, eliminate or minimize accidents on the
highways.
3. To produce a system where information and output report will be produced or
made available much faster, more accurately.
1.4 Significance of the Study
With the growth in information technology, the study offers numerous values to the
Federal Road Safety Commission and any organization that deals with offence
documentation data/information. Huge files kept through the manual method in
offices will no longer be there again because information will be stored on the
computer with the help of the Web base Traffic Offence System. It will help to keep a
comprehensive record of traffic offence documented.
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1.5 Scope of the Study
This study is strived at finding out how effective the Computerization of Nigerian
Road Safety Commission will improve the operation of the commission. However,
the research is limited to traffic offence section.
1.6 Limitations of the Study
Owing to the scope of this project as mentioned above, this project work is limited to
computer literates. It is important to mention that time and cost was a major
constraint in the course of fact finding. It is also wise to mention here that some
information needed to work with was not collected because of the unwillingness of
the agency to reveal such information.
1.7 Definition of Terms
Information: This is the assembling of data into a meaningful form.
Data: This is a fore runner of information. It is an unprocessed fact.
Database: Is a collection of information that is related to a particular subject or
purpose.
Internet: Is a collection of computer networks that operate to common standards and
enable the computer and the program they run to communicate directly.
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Software: This is a logically written program that hardware uses to perform its
operation.
FRSC: Federal Road Safety Commission is the body responsible for the control of
Road user in a country (Nigeria).
Computerization: Refers to the application of computer in performing operations.
System: Is the collection of hardware, software, data information procedures and
people
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