ABSTRACT
The road safety commission has always over
the time has a way of documenting issues that has to do with road users and
offenses committed by road users. Man has always violated laws that has to do
with driving over the years because of several circumstances which might be his
fault or not.
So to manage all of all this events and occurrences in
road and road use; the government has to set up a body to handle the affairs
that has to do with drivers and car owners to ensure a proper use of the roads
and vehicles.
Every crime committed as a result of breaking traffic
laws has to be recorded, and documented. In this modern technological driven
age, computerization of many sectors of government bodies are inevitable
because of the ever increasing demand for change and digitalization. Hence our
work here help to solve that problem of digitalization with respect to the
traffic offense documentation making reference to road safety commission.
CHAPTER
ONE
INTRODUCTION
1.0 INTRODUCTION
Gone are the days when we use to
write and document every detail at our work place and at home by writing alone.
The world today has gone digital. And that means that everything has gone
speedy and computerized. The computer system has revolutionized the way the
normal office functions and activities are being carried out, ranging from data
entry, data analysis processing and rendering. People want their information to
be digitalized for several relevant purposes.
Computer data processing
is of great importance in the modern world and increasingly computers are being
applied to the solution of industrial, commercial mathematical and scientific
problems.
In recent times, there have been need growing need to
computerize the operations of big establishments both public and private to
increase their overall efficiency. This is achieved by using computer to store,
process, and retrieve information as well as generates report. These computers
make use of application packages, that is; a computer program and manuals
designed to cover all aspects of particular task in realizing the objective. It
is now widely accepted that the coordination of all complex functions of an
organization is greatly assisted by en efficient data processing and
documentation system.
The size and volume of work of the road safety commission
of Enugu State, they are of no exemption as there is need to computerize their
operations. Apart from other advantages, this will now replace the manual
process of documenting vehicles that offend road rules by breaking the traffic
law, and enhance the effective punishment due. Since the computerized mode of
operation is flexible and accurate, record keeping is ensured, it will give the
management of the road safety commission enough time for planning and decision-
making rather than being immersed in the detail of routine functions.
1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
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
supper injuries. The world health organization believe that these figures could
increase by more them half over the next 20year unless there is a firm
commitment to road safety and accident prevention, especially in Nigeria, most
adult will know of someone who has been killed or injured in a road traffic
accidents. It is a clear fact that many of these accidents and their
consequences could be avoided.
Therefore this project, computerized traffic offence
documentation 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
Since the
history of the federal Road safety commission, the body has undergone several
problems that occur in activities like proper staff information documentation,
system of traffic offence documentation, effort in documenting these road
offenses and the offenders, and a host of other related issues. All these can
be easily fixed and hastened by the introduction of a computerized system to handle
all of these activities without the waste of precious time.
These factors
therefore necessitate the implementation of a computerized traffic offense
documentation system service in other to overcoming the shortcomings that the
commission has experienced without computerization of its processes which is a
critical component of its information technology strategy. By giving the
commission a computerized documentation system, we will be able to leverage the
various diversities that digitalization can provide. Equally, the statement of
the problem of the work is also being:
i.
Time: going by the
present system of operation, time is consumed in the manual handling of
operation involves in road traffic documentation.
ii.
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.
1.3 PURPOSE OF THE STUDY
This study is designed to help federal Read safety commission
to document all road traffic offences incurred by the road users.
This study
also tries to give an in-depth looking in the easiest and most effective way
for the growth and development of the federal Road safety commission of
Nigerian in order to control and render its activities to the Nigerian and
other coteries.
1.4 AIMS AND OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY
The objectives are as
follows:
i.
To provide better services to the public and users.
ii.
To keep records that are compact, integrated and up to date.
iii.
To produce a system where information and output report will
be produced or made available much faster more accurately and more detailed to
the commission and the public (Road users).
1.5 SCOPE OF THE STUDY
This study is strived at finalizing how effective the
computerization of Nigerian Road safety commission will improve the operation
of the commission.
However, the research project is limited to traffic offence
documentation section.
1.6 LIMITATION OF THE STUDY
The research
of this work is limited to the road safety commission Enugu state.
Many limitations
encountered, were in the process of gathering information for the development
of this project work to this extent. It
was not an easy one, so many constraints were encountered during the collection
of data.
The limitation focuses of
the following constraints;
i. FINANCIAL CONTRAINTS:
the cost of sourcing for information and data that are involved in this work is
high in the sense that we all know that information is money.
ii. TIME: A lot of time was involved in writing and developing
this work.
1.7 DEFINITION OF TERMS
I.
Information-This
is the assemblage of data into a meaningful
form.
II.
FRSC:
Federal Road safety commission a body responsible for the control of Road users
in the country Nigeria.
III.
Data-
it is unprocessed information.
IV.
Computerization:
- refers to the application of computer in performing operations.
V.
Information
Technology (IT): Is the application of
computers and telecommunications equipment to store, retrieve, transmit and
manipulate data,
VI.
Computer
Program: Is a sequence of instructions, written
to perform a specified task on a computer.
VII.
Digitalization:
This is a process of correcting
information from manually to digital or automated formats in this format
information is organized into discrete unit also know as bits of data.
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