BERLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--TomTom today releases the latest version of its real-time traffic information service, TomTom HD Traffic at the IFA consumer electronics show.
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Connecting commuters improves the commute by allowing users to share or receive real-time information on traffic issues.
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Future iDevice interfaces may also be leveraged for Apple to enhance its upcoming iOS mapping software with cloud-based crowd-sourced info for more reliable real-time traffic information.
It also owns Traffic.com, the biggest reseller of real-time traffic information.
The success of maps has created another business, called Inrix, that delivers real-time traffic information to the maps from radio transponders in taxis and fleet cars.
Like the new traffic service, directions incorporate real-time traffic information.
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For example, for Stanford University a device could eventually show you a 3D map of the campus with real-time traffic information, information about your lecture room and the class there, information about the subject there, such as biology in 3D, and so on.
The U.S. is still stalled in the research phase and the ITIF report calls for a federal approach comparable in scale to the Interstate Highway System launched in the 1950s, with national real-time traffic information in the 100 largest cities by 2014 and a mileage-based user fee system by 2020.
Rather, wi-fi enabled vehicles would be able to communicate vital real-time information with each other to help reduce traffic congestion and avoid accidents.
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The system is capable of integrating real-time information, such as fuel prices, parking, traffic, tracking, weather forecasts and images from traffic cameras.
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Apple also will enhance its maps with a real-time traffic application that will include anonymous, crowdsourced information from users.
Hurricane Hackers, a website from MIT's Media Lab which offers real-time information on projects related to the storm, has been receiving very high levels of traffic.
Through video cameras, traffic data is captured and analyzed, and then provided as real-time information to mobile phones.
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