Mobile Phones to Monitor Traffic Congestion

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."

Comments

Re:Dupe GOTO 10

[peterpi]

yes.

http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=168794&cid =14070720

Re:Uhmmm...

[MBCook]

Doesn't matter.

Now I agree completely.

But you don't have to be talking, as long as your phone is on it is reporting to the tower. There is also the argument that someone else in the car could be using the phone (say a Taxi passenger). But this should work for people like me who have a cell phone and leave it on, but don't talk while driving.

As opposed to what?

[spaceyhackerlady]

Isn't the traffic always congested in Bangalore?

Where have I heard this before?

[evilviper]

A bit off-topic, but have you heard they're going to be tracking cell-phone signals to monitor traffic patterns? It's amazing! Why doesn't Slashdot ever accept a story on the subject?

You can read more here:

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/11/19/143247

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/11/19/074524 8

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/11/01/159241

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/10/16/076217

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/30/124324 7

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/06/13/042822 9

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/08/10/233725 9

There, that's better. Hopefully, one day they'll come to their senses, and post a story or two on the subject.