French Motorway and Orange to Develop Real-Time Traffic Info
The two companies have announced this week they have launched in December 2009 a one year experiment on nearly 1,200 kms of roads. The aim is to deliver real-time road traffic information on different types of road network: motorways, national and departmental highways and peri-urban express ways.
This solution, draws on the pooling of each partner’s information sources: in one hand traffic data collected in real time by ASF using sensors, traffic count stations, cameras and patrols carried out on its network; in the other hand Orange Labs is using GSM signal data on their mobile network to statistically estimate motorists’ speed via their mobile on all road networks.
The traffic information will be updated every six minutes said Orange in a press release.
