Nokia/NAVTEQ working Traffic with UC Berkley - Mobile Millennium Project
Nokia/NAVTEQ are working with UC Berkley on the Mobile Millennium project, a project to create a system to collect traffic flow patterns from mobile phones, and create real-time traffic condition reporting. The project will span 18 months and utilize the power of the partnership between government, academia, and industry.
This is not unlike a few companies out there that already capture traffic data from cell phones - passively, and utilize algorithms to measure the speeds of traffic on highways and surface roads.
"The Mobile Millennium project includes a six month pilot deployment of GPS technology, where thousands of GPS mobile phones will be placed in vehicle within a focus area. Participating users agree to place these cell phones in their vehicles in order to transmit positioning data. The phones receive live traffic information from a map application."
Good stuff - the more the merrier on this one. Let's figure it out and nail the applications so my life gets better with less traffic.
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Posted by Scott Martin at November 11, 2008 8:23 AM
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