BirdsEye, a Geographical information systems company has introduced traffic updates for the cities of Delhi, Mumbai, Gurgaon, Noida and Ghaziabad at its website Traffsol.com. The company relies on probe vehicles that it signs up with, and collects GPS based data from taxis, cars, buses and call center vehicles. Brijraj Vaghani, co-founder Birds Eye, told MediaNama that they have over 2000 vehicles in the Delhi-NCR and Ghaziabad region, and around 500 vehicles in Mumbai, and information from them is being plotted live on the map. Unlike updates from the traffic police on Twitter and Facebook, Vaghani says that they get the actual speed of the car, whereas the social media updates tell you whether there is a jam or not, and speeds are high or low. That is subjective. They get actual speeds (like 13.2 kmph) and have mapped roads as class A and Class B, and depending on the average speed of traffic on a road and the time of day, the traffic is shown as Slow (red), Medium (blue) and Smooth (green) on the map. "For example on the Noida toll bridge, 40 kmph is smooth speed, but 30 kmph is lower than expected." For the first year, they are only doing category A and B roads. "If there is an intersection, we can even tell you how much time a user has to spend at an intersection. We calculate that right now, but right now its not displayed at the website." Why They Are Not Using Triangulation Vaghani says that…
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