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Mobile Phones to Monitor Traffic Congestion

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the backup-on-the-i-five-headed-south dept.

shas3n writes "In an interesting and innovative way Bangalore city, India, has come up with a way to monitor road traffic congestion by monitoring the density of mobile phones. This can give users quantitative and directional information of traffic flow without significant additional infrastructure investments. The congestion data is already available online."

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  1. Re:Dupe GOTO 10 by The+Clockwork+Troll · · Score: 1, Funny

    My Company is Please to offer you outsourced Services in the Area of Mobile Traffics Monitoring.

    We are first with many happy clients in this Competitive Technology Area.

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  2. Missing info by Andrewkov · · Score: 2, Funny

    How come the map doesn't show all the American call center's and outsourcing firms? This is Bangalore, after all!

  3. Re:Infinite Loop by COMON$ · · Score: 2, Funny

    Thats ok, I just used my technical reference.

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  4. Re:Great! by AnonymousCactus · · Score: 2, Funny
    I've created such a service that is currently in beta. It's based on the following secret formula (expressed in psuedocode):

    if(5 am - 9 pm)
    report Traffic Jam
    else
    report slightly less terrible Traffic Jam

    Oh crap, there goes the IP holding the company together...