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CarGuru > Driving > cell phone technology lets you outsmart the traffic 9 January 2006 11:36:44
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cell phone technology lets you outsmart the traffic

Larry Gross 9 January 2006 11:36:44
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.... a system attached to your car that would notify you when a highway
was blocked up and would provide you with alternative routes to take?

....the consumer portion of the system is already operational and will
be available soon. Which means that once it is in place in your area,
you will be able to find out where the traffic is and how to avoid it.

"The idea behind TrafficSense is built on the premise that
increasingly, everybody has their cell phone on while they're driving,"


"Via a concept we call anonymous signaling, we're able to take
anonymous data on the location of people based on their cell phones and
we're able to extrapolate that into traffic statistics."

"The information is relayed directly to the traffic management system
of the road operator - it's quick, easy to install, and there's no
problem with privacy.

It finds the exact locations of all active mobile phones .... (and)
connects passively to cellular networks and continuously monitors
control channel communication of anonymous cellular phones.

This data is immediately correlated with reference data using unique
pattern matching algorithms to identify the exact road and extract
accurate travel time.

The idea of producing traveler information from cell phone use is not
new. In the late 1990s, none of those early efforts proved both
economically and operationally feasible for transportation
applications.

The major testing ground for TrafficSense has been the Ayalon Freeway,
the main highway in Tel Aviv where the system has been operational
since 2002.

"A whole city can be hooked up in six months -

According to Modena, Cellint is currently in negotiations with a number
of DOTs in the US and Europe.

"Many traffic jams develop from nothing to a major jam in a few minutes
- so a real time solution is needed," said Modena. "We already have a
system for consumers that will be operational soon that will enable
drivers to determine the quickest way to get from place to place. It
won't be theoretical like an Internet trip planner, which is unaware of
existing traffic - but in real time, with the knowledge of the traffic
on the roads at that moment. It will be up to date as of the traffic
five minutes ago."

http://www.israel21­c.org/bin/en.jsp?enD­ispWho=Articles%5El1­194&enPage=BlankPage­&enDisplay=view&enDi­spWhat=object&enVers­ion=0&enZone=Technol­ogy

OT comment: Gee... this sounds great and with all the concerns in the
US about
outsourcing ... was this an opportunity for US companies/workers that
got overlooked?

Here in the US we have a huge road network, gobs of DOTs and DOT
employees and
a gazillion businesses that support the DOTs .. but a tiny company in
the small
country of Israel... apparently has left the US in the dust on this
technology...

ironic isn't it that this country has characterized it's road network
as "a crisis" of
congestion.... and so we concentrate on building more roads .. and this
small
company figures out how to maximize efficiency of existing roads... at
a fraction
of the cost. No, it won't solve some fundamental issues where more
infrastructure
is needed but it's one hell of a "bridge" technology to squeeze more
out of what
we have.. while we wait for more concrete and asphalt.

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