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Researchers Launch Real-Time Traffic Prediction Service for Commuters in 21 Cities

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Follow up to September 18, 2007 posting, 2007 Annual Urban Mobility Report, see this National Science Foundation press release, Powerful Tool Crunches Commutes: “Tied to a statistical database that tracks how traffic conditions develop–over the course of a “rush hour,” for example–the software suggests a commute based on congestion that may arise, not traffic status at the time of departure. Based on such statistics, the researchers have found that many commuters can save more time by altering their departure time than they would using mass transit. In use for more than a year in states from Illinois to Alaska, www.BeatTheTraffic.com is user-tailored down to the scale of individual roads–a result of the vast, yet disparate, government data sources driving the software.”

  • BeatTheTraffic.com: “Triangle processes and integrates real-time road traffic and weather information from numerous public and private sources, predicts traffic patterns and suggests routes so users can arrive at their destinations rested and ready. Triangle services individual consumers, companies/employers and the broadcast media market with an up-to-the-minute traffic feed, and automated, information-rich graphics for 21 metropolitan areas: Anaheim, Anchorage, Atlanta, Chicago, Fresno, Gary, Los Angeles, Macon, Milwaukee, Minneapolis-St Paul, Modesto, Oakland, Phoenix, Portland, Sacramento, San Bernardino, San Diego, San Francisco, San Jose, Seattle, Tacoma. Triangle is rapidly expanding its coverage.”
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