Filed under: Government, Traveler Information, Video, London, TMC, Traffic Management
November 30, 2011 • 1:09 am 0
New York State 511 Travel Information Service – Development and Documentation
November 28, 2011 • 11:10 pm 0
Pennsylvania opting not to put advertisements on electronic signs
The state has withdrawn a federal application seeking permission to raise money for road and bridge repairs by selling advertisements on the electronic message signs.
Read more at The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/regional/s_769307.html#ixzz1f2olF52y
Filed under: Information, Advertising, DMS, Monetization, Pennsylvania, Revenue
November 27, 2011 • 6:03 pm 0
Presentations from recent ITS Arizona Bluetooth Summit
View presentations at:
http://www.itsaz.org/node/53
Filed under: Data, Detection, Information, Mobile, Arizona, Bluetooth, Conference
November 26, 2011 • 5:12 pm 0
Bryan Mistele guides Inrix on road to success
With Bryan Mistele at the wheel, Inrix was on the move in 2011. The Kirkland provider of real-time traffic information raised a $37 million venture round from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, signed a multi-million dollar deal with Google and purchased its biggest European rival.
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More at GeekWire
http://www.geekwire.com/2011/newsmakers-2011-bryan-mistele-guides-inrix-road-success
Filed under: Business, Data, Traveler Information, data, Inrix, traveler information
November 23, 2011 • 11:28 pm 0
New phone app gives drivers access to FDOT traffic cameras
One of the big pushes this year is a new 511 application for iPhones and other mobile devices that helps drivers navigate the roads and informs them of anything from construction to car accidents. Application users can look at traffic cameras to see traffic flow and can pinpoint areas where construction might be causing detours or delays.
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More at The Palm Beach Post
http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/traffic/new-phone-app-gives-drivers-access-to-fdot-1987816.html
Filed under: Applications, Government, Video, CCTV, FDOT, Video
November 23, 2011 • 12:30 am 0
Guide to Improving Capability for Systems Operations and Management
TRB’s second Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP 2) Report S2-L06-RR-2 Guide to Improving Capability for Systems Operations and Management examines the way transportation agencies should be organized to successfully execute operations programs that improve travel time reliability.
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More at TRB
http://www.trb.org/Main/Blurbs/165286.aspx
Filed under: Information, Research, Traveler Information, Travel Time Reliability, traveler information
November 22, 2011 • 2:04 pm 0
I95TravelInfo.net – East Coast Taveler Information
Travelers from Maine to Florida this Thanksgiving holiday will be able to save time and better plan their trips thanks to a web site that provides them with real-time traffic information and estimated drive times for roadways in and between major metropolitan areas along the East Coast.
Read more:
http://www.sacbee.com/2011/11/21/4070602/i95travelinfonet-spells-relief.html#ixzz1eRW8n4Nb
Filed under: Internet, Traveler Information, Event Management, I-95 Corridor Coalition, traveler information
November 21, 2011 • 8:40 pm 0
NAVTEQ 2011: North America GPS Traffic Probes
Filed under: Data, Location, Mobile, Traveler Information, Navteq, Probe Vehicle
November 21, 2011 • 4:24 pm 0
VDOT’s Thanksgiving Holiday Congestion Maps
Filed under: Data, Information, Traveler Information, Event Management, VDOT. Traveler Information
November 21, 2011 • 4:21 pm 0
CDOT, I-70 coalition herald new apps to encourage drivers to patronize businesses during heavy traffic
CDOT is preparing to commission the development of a smartphone application that will not only alert drivers to traffic conditions, delays, road conditions and potential travel times, but will provide them with specials and deals for places where they can eat, kill time and even spend the night while waiting for the roads to clear up.
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More at SummitDailly
http://www.summitdaily.com/article/20111119/NEWS/111119823
Filed under: Government, Information, Mobile, Traveler Information, Apps, Colorado
November 21, 2011 • 1:51 am 0
How the DC’s Metro Opened Up Its Data
Flipping the debate from potential profits to actual expenses. Gordon Linton, a former head of the Federal Transit Administration who served alongside Zimmerman on the Metro board, focused on the opportunity cost of giving data to other sites. He said the agency had given away resources – for example, free parking for car-sharing services – that it later realized could yield income.
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More at ReadWriteWeb
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/three_years_ago_the_washington.php?utm_source=ReadWriteWeb+Newsletters&utm_campaign=a5c1f9820a-RWWDailyNewsletter&utm_medium=email
Filed under: Data, Government, open data, WMATA
November 7, 2011 • 11:13 pm 0
For WTOP.com, the website for Washington, D.C.’s 24-hour headline news radio station, helping the region’s drivers navigate around traffic snarls has boosted site visits.
This is thanks to WTOP’s proprietary technology feature “Custom Commute,” which lets users custom stitch together the streams from a network of traffic cameras. For the Hubbard Broadcasting-owned station and site, traffic is serious business, so much so that it recently stopped outsourcing its traffic reporting altogether, according to John Meyer, director of digital media.
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More at NetNewsCheck
http://www.netnewscheck.com/article/2011/11/06/15103/road-traffic-drives-web-traffic-at-wtopcom
Filed under: Information, Internet, Radio, traveler information
November 7, 2011 • 10:29 pm 0
Best Practices for Traveler Information during Weather – Tweets for the Streets
Filed under: Applications, Government, Information, Mobile, traveler information, Weather, WSDOT
November 7, 2011 • 4:50 pm 0
A Media Lab group that has done groundbreaking work using cellphones to gauge human social interactions releases its technology to the public.
Now, the group is making its phone-based data-collection system available as a free, open-source download so that other researchers, and people interested in the burgeoning phenomenon of “self-tracking,” can not only use it but also help expand it, incorporating it into other applications or providing it with new features and functions.
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More at MIT Media Lab
http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2011/phone-sensor-programming-1005.html
Filed under: Applications, Data, Location, Mobile, GPS, MIT, Smartphone
