Apple will offer the basics that drivers are used to: turn-by-turn navigation and real-time traffic updates with rerouting.
Apple also will enhance its maps with a real-time traffic application that will include anonymous, crowdsourced information from users.
Provides real-time traffic, public transit and flight info, will also show you places of interest as you walk down the street.
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BERLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--TomTom today releases the latest version of its real-time traffic information service, TomTom HD Traffic at the IFA consumer electronics show.
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It also owns Traffic.com, the biggest reseller of real-time traffic information.
The success of maps has created another business, called Inrix, that delivers real-time traffic information to the maps from radio transponders in taxis and fleet cars.
Future iDevice interfaces may also be leveraged for Apple to enhance its upcoming iOS mapping software with cloud-based crowd-sourced info for more reliable real-time traffic information.
The new Advanced Series offers additional premium features to guide drivers, such as the new Garmin Real DirectionsTM, Active Lane Guidance and real-time traffic with voice integration.
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Like the new traffic service, directions incorporate real-time traffic information.
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The system offers the usual satellite-radio amenities (XM NavWeather, local fuel prices, real-time traffic and stock updates, and more) as well as a brace of Internet apps, such as Pandora and Open Table.
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Nokia has the pieces it needs to begin integrating GPS and cellular communication into all kinds of devices that will offer better real-time traffic, weather and location Web services than a single-function GPS alone can.
Both systems utilize Clear Channel's Total Traffic Network1 service to provide an overlay of real-time traffic events and conditions on the navigation map and allow users to create routes (or re-route) to minimize traffic delays.
Ovi Maps beta adds visibility to subways, trams and trains in 85 cities around the world, real-time traffic, safety alerts in or out of navigation mode, visibility to parking and petrol stations, and speed limit warnings.
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It's connected to Fios and lets you get real-time traffic, weather, maps, caller ID with photos, stores addresses and phone numbers--and can revert to a screen saver with images licensed from the Museum of Modern Art.
With my obsessive use of Newsbeat, our real-time traffic tool, I was able to watch and discover that at any given moment during the seven-day period Facebook was responsible for between 25% and up to 60% of the traffic.
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For example, for Stanford University a device could eventually show you a 3D map of the campus with real-time traffic information, information about your lecture room and the class there, information about the subject there, such as biology in 3D, and so on.
Even with advances in GPS navigation, real-time traffic alerts and mapping, daily commute times are often unreliable, and relevant updates on how to avoid congestion often reach commuters when they are already stuck in traffic and it is too late to change course.
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The U.S. is still stalled in the research phase and the ITIF report calls for a federal approach comparable in scale to the Interstate Highway System launched in the 1950s, with national real-time traffic information in the 100 largest cities by 2014 and a mileage-based user fee system by 2020.
They also enable tighter demographic targeting in line with real-time human traffic patterns.
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Emotion UI is also pre-installed with a smartphone housekeeper function to support real-time data traffic tracking, automatic blacklisting and blocking, periodical system cleaning, and spontaneous exiting of idle programs and cache cleanup, in addition to anti-virus, energy saving, privacy protection, software management, and more.
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Other sensors monitor traffic conditions allowing real-time optimisation of traffic flow.
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Enterprises can deploy M2M technology now to reduce the cost of field service management through remote maintenance, they can optimize fleet scheduling with real-time location and traffic data and they can tap into new business models such as usage-based (or pay-as-you) go billing.
Connecting commuters improves the commute by allowing users to share or receive real-time information on traffic issues.
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Current companies include Inrix, a fast-growing navigation and traffic technology company, and Awarepoint, which builds real-time location systems for hospitals.
The big idea: putting sensors everywhere that communicate in a mesh network and allow real-time tracking and optimization of everything from traffic to the power grid to the water supply.
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Rather, wi-fi enabled vehicles would be able to communicate vital real-time information with each other to help reduce traffic congestion and avoid accidents.
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Fluctuations in temperature, air quality and humidity will be recorded along with noise levels and foot traffic to provide a real-time breakdown of activity within the Moscone Center.
This real-time Fast Data collection and analysis can help optimize traffic management, provide forensic analysis, identify traffic hotspots or help with crime prevention.
The system is capable of integrating real-time information, such as fuel prices, parking, traffic, tracking, weather forecasts and images from traffic cameras.
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If traffic congestion can be compared to water flowing through a sink drain, then a congestion toll is like the handle on the spigot -- it increases during times of peak road use, decreases during off-peak times, and is adjusted in real time to keep traffic flowing smoothly.
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