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

Uhmmm...

[Etrias]

...shut up and drive?

Just a thought.

Re:Uhmmm...

[Fx.Dr]

My thoughts exactly. Isn't this some sort of self-fulfilling prophecy?

1) Moron talks on his cell
2) Gets into accident
3) ???
4) Congestion!

Great stuff - this is innovation

[unity100]

And for the people who are arguing the bicycles, pedestrians etc would mess with the actual traffic congestion, remember that in bangalore those constitute a great deal of the traffic jam too.

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.