Don't be deceived by claims that cameras at traffic lights provide valuable information on traffic patterns.
Second, cashless tolling gives cities the flexibility to change toll rates according to demand and to shift traffic patterns.
Despite no concrete evidence of a breach or attack, the company says it is investigating unusual traffic patterns.
The system depended on a central brain that would analyze global Internet traffic patterns to identify friend from foe.
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They also enable tighter demographic targeting in line with real-time human traffic patterns.
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Once a parcel of land has been selected, McDonald's enters into its database information about that area's demographics and traffic patterns.
The reason for the Sunday somnolence: Car buyers are waiting for new economy models that may change traffic patterns on Indian roads.
Sadik-Khan counters that she works with the city's 59 community boards and runs extensive analyses of traffic patterns before blocking off streets.
Collage also aims to mimic the traffic patterns of legitimate users, so that digital fingerprints which may suggest illicit behaviour are not produced.
By observing the aggregate traffic patterns on various web sites, it refines its heuristics, allowing for accurate predictions of the next page request.
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The responses have been incredibly engaging and entertaining ranging from musical performances to yoga poses to wine to an analysis of urban traffic patterns in San Francisco.
We also use web beacons (invisible images often referred to as pixel tags or clear GIFs) on our sites in order to recognize users and assess traffic patterns, and we include web beacons and cookies in our e-mail messages, including newsletters, in order to count how many e-mail messages have been opened.
Ideas range from selling data about vehicle movement patterns to traffic-or weather-monitoring companies or to insurers that want better data in exchange for lowering consumer rates.
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Container traffic provides a window on trade patterns and the state of the global economy because it is the most closely tied to consumer demand.
These routes are changing rapidly reflecting the often short-lived global communication patterns and longer term storage traffic.
To do this requires the ability to gain insights as they occur to understand allocation of network resources based on traffic and application requirements, network usage patterns.
If you scale these communication patterns and now add to this, traffic which requires every device to talk to every other device across the whole switch network (which is often the case), multiple routes within the network are required to avoid congestion.
We see this ability to understand patterns by instinct everywhere: artists, air traffic controllers, trading-floor brokers, criminologists, jazz musicians, etc.
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The patterns are familiar, said Sam Schwartz, the former city traffic commissioner and engineer known as Gridlock Sam.
Other key patents IBM obtained last year were for predicting traffic problems by using GPS and communicating the delays to drives, finding patterns across disparate data sources and an invention for enabling analysis of medical data from multiple sources to improve the research, diagnosis and treatment of medical conditions.
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"We'll discover patterns all over the place you never knew were there--how traffic works, how flu moves through a population, " he says.
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