Trafficware and Green Driver partner on traffic signal prediction app

Trafficware’s infrastructure-to-vehicle collaboration with technology partners combines two things that most people interact with on a daily basis: their smartphone and traffic. The company has partnered with Green Driver which has developed a smartphone app, EnLighten, to communicate with the central traffic management system to provide drivers with predictions on how long they will be stopped at traffic lights. Trafficware provides the real-time traffic signal data for intersections to Green Driver.
February 7, 2014 Read time: 1 min
5642 Trafficware’s infrastructure-to-vehicle collaboration with technology partners combines two things that most people interact with on a daily basis: their smartphone and traffic.

The company has partnered with Green Driver which has developed a smartphone app, EnLighten, to communicate with the central traffic management system to provide drivers with predictions on how long they will be stopped at traffic lights. Trafficware provides the real-time traffic signal data for intersections to Green Driver.

Trafficware was the logical technology partner, as the company currently has the City of Las Vegas as one of its central traffic management system customers. This central software system is flexible and extensible, allowing for integration with third party software products like EnLighten.
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