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.
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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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Using the traffic tool Alexa as a rough estimator, MarkMonitor found that pharmacies included in Alexa's top 100, 000 sites--about a third of the pharmacy sites the researchers traced--now each receive about 99, 000 visitors daily, more than triple the 32, 000 daily visitors per ranked site last year.
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.
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Also, your vehicle can upload its position to road authorities, so they can use variable road tolls as a traffic management tool -- raising the price on busy stretches during rush hours.
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This gives the state a powerful tool for monitoring computer traffic.
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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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.
In a technology advance that will ultimately help drivers around the world avoid rush hour traffic jams, IBM Research has developed a new predictive modeling tool that will let drivers quickly access personalized travel recommendations to help them avoid congestion, and save time and fuel.
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Now Pinterest, which Silbermann describes as a tool to find inspiration, is the third-largest source of referral traffic on the Web.
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N00ter, a tool that Kaminsky plans to release in coming weeks, checks for those marginal traffic cheats.
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Shortly after the tool was made available the website crashed, with the force blaming "high volumes of traffic" for the technical problem.
"Helicopters are a valuable tool for police in our normal operations, including investigations, anti-crime operations, traffic management, search and rescue, public order situations, crime reduction initiatives and tackling terrorism, " she said.
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