Cluster of Cellphones Could Prevent Traffic Jam

The number of cellphone users on the road are numerous and their moving pattern could potentially provide a great way to analyze the traffic condition.

According to NewScientist, Researchers at Nokia and the University of California, Berkeley, have developed a system that collects GPS data from mobile phones in moving vehicles and uses it to create traffic maps. The maps are available on the internet or sent to your cellphone to provide local traffic analysis.

Alex Bayen at UC Berkeley says that if enough people download the free software (from http://traffic.berkeley.edu), the system should help relieve congestion.

The issue here is for this solution to work, the application needs to be widely adopted, which seems impossible.

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