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.
AAdvances in LiDAR are helping transport authorities improve services and identify potential problem areas, as geospatial technology expert Dr Neil Slatcher explains. The effects of climate change on the transport infrastructure have long been a cause of concern within the transportation sector - and not only on the structures themselves but also on the surrounding areas. This year, those concerns have become reality with landslides, structural collapses and surfacing issues impacting services across the wo
Prof. Klaus Banse, President of ITS Colombia and Ing. Robert Miranda, Head of the Traffic Management and Control System of Cartagena de Indias, Columbia, outline early cost benefits of an adaptive traffic control system. At the beginning of this year, Cartagena de Indias, located on the north coast of Colombia in the Caribbean, implemented a new adaptive traffic control system on 52 intersections with an investment of US$4.5 million.
