Using this predictive and analytic traffic tool, transportation agencies and city planners in the future will be able to proactively design, manage and optimize transportation systems to deal with ever-increasing traffic due to population growth and increasing urbanization.

ENGADGET: IBM shows off Smarter Traveler traffic prediction tool

Another 11% of traffic hopped between ports, and 15% of networks showed some traffic using Tor, an anonymity and censorship prevention tool.

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The researchers will leverage a first-of-its-kind learning and predictive analytics tool called the IBM Traffic Prediction Tool (TPT), developed by IBM Research, which continuously analyzes congestion data, commuter locations and expected travel start times throughout a metropolitan region that can affect commuters on highways, rail-lines and urban roads.

ENGADGET: IBM shows off Smarter Traveler traffic prediction tool

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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Others have suggested that proponents of the plan may have muddled the message by trying to sell the package as a traffic fix, a jobs creator, and an economic development tool.

MSN: Staff writer