Bangalore Traffic .. some help from technology

Bangalore traffic is a mess, its a well debated topic and I don’t want to offer any suggestion on how to improve it, my take on it is that the people have to be disciplined if there is to be some order in this chaos. While this requires everyone to make an effort i think this technology will provide some solace. With cellphones being present in almost every conceivable vehicle in Bangalore, this project being currently available in the US provided by IntelliOne would go a long way in giving some help to this mess.

Traditional traffic mapping solutions require deployment of sensors which are costly and some place like Bangalore where there is a junction almost every kilometer deploying and maintaining a dedicated sensor network would be a nightmare. The beauty of this piece of technology lies in using the cell phone positioning data that a normal cellphone that you and me carry. With data flowing in from the cell phone providers, anonymized of course, and mapping the rate of movement this provides a traffic movement data which is upto the minute, reliable and always on. Combine that with delivery of this information via applications on the mobile itself on an app like Google Maps for Mobile and you have a killer in the making.

Also blogged here…. and it seems this has been alive in Europe for some time from Logic CMG

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