A company called Dash has come out with a car GPS unit equipped with GPS,WiFi, and cellular communications. With these features a network is formed from all the Dash units and live traffic information is shared. In addition to live traffic data, they have database of historic traffic patterns for metropolitan areas. This sounds great. However, for this to really useful lots of cars in your course would need their product. It seems that some standard should be created( if not already) so other units besides Dash can benefit and thus create a larger , more accurate and more useful traffic sharing network.
Jon Oppelaar
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Andrew Kun says:
November 6, 2007 at 7:59 am (UTC -4)
Ian Cassias, a Project54 graduate student, is looking into using police car radar units to evaluate traffic flow. Police cars could become traffic probes feeding the traffic databases that Dash claims to be using.
Andrew Kun