MapQuest, a wholly-owned subsidiary of AOL, has announced that it has integrated traffic and road condition cameras into its maps and directions.
March 14, 2012
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3891 MapQuest, a wholly-owned subsidiary of 3890 AOL, has announced that it has integrated traffic and road condition cameras into its maps and directions. Now available in over 100 markets and featuring more than 11,000 cameras from partner 163 Inrix, the majority of the images are updated within a couple of minutes. The company says more cameras will be added in the next several months and traffic cams will also be available on MapQuest's mobile web and mobile apps in the near future.
The new SmartWay app from the Tennessee Department of Transportation (TDOT) p will help drivers navigate Tennessee highways, providing up-to-the-minute customised traffic information. The home screen for the TDOT SmartWay App is a map, which will locate the user’s current position. Users will see icons on the left hand side of the map for traffic speeds, incidents, cameras, road construction, road conditions, and dynamic message signs. Map views can be customised by simply clicking on those icons.
Inrix is to integrate on-street parking data provided by Canadian company PayByPhone into its end-to-end parking solution for the connected car.
According to Inrix, the partnership strengthens the prediction capabilities of its On-Street Parking by adding historical and real-time parking transaction information. It also adds significant coverage to the company’s in-car payment solution in North America and Europe.
Inrix launched its dynamic off-street parking service in 2013, and introduced an integra
David Crawford investigates new detection analysis technology from IBM. Locations on both the East and West Coasts of the US are scheduled for early deployments of IBM's new Traffic Prediction Tool (TPT) statistical analysis model for the fine-time resolution and near-term prediction of road flow conditions. Developed by IBM's Watson Research Laboratories, TPT is designed to analyse data from the the key detection indicators - average vehicle volumes and speeds passing a location in a given time interval -
Siemens is partnering with the City of Huntington Beach, California, to engineer, install and maintain a new 11,000 energy efficient streetlight system. The technology features LED lighting that aims to reduce energy consumption by over 50 per cent and create clearer illumination to help reduce vehicular accidents and increase safety for city residents.
