Smart highways are still years absent. But smarter highways just got a boost with the announced rollout of a satellite system that will disseminate real-time traffic goods along a highly congested 2,500 mile corridor of I-95, stretching from Maine to Florida. It’s the largest project of its kind.
The company contracted for the project, Inrix, will beam real-time info to
transportation departments on traffic speeds, including accident reports and
other notes. Government agencies can thereupon offer that knowledge to commuters via the World Wide Web, mobile alerts
and road
as TomTom, Garmin and Clear Channel Communications Inc.’s Total Traffic Network.
Traffic congestion in major U.S. cities costs $78 billion in lost hours
and wasted gasoline, according to a study final year by the Texas
Transportation Institute.
Source: Wall Street Journal
Original post by Marty Jerome
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